In 1911, Emily Carr returned from a sixteen-month trip to France with a new understanding of French Modernism and a radically transformed painting style that infused her later representations of Northwest Coast First Nations communities in British Columbia. Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing—French Modernism and the West Coast showcases this dramatic evolution by presenting works Carr produced before, during, and after her artistic explorations in France, alongside texts by the Audain Art Museum’s Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator, Kiriko Watanabe; Carr scholar Kathryn Bridge; Carr researcher Michael Polay; art critic Robin Laurence; and Emily Carr herself.
Image credits
Cover: Le Paysage: Audain Art Museum Collection
Interior photos, in order of appearance:
Courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives | House with Slanted Roof, Brittany: Audain Art Museum Collection | Le Paysage: Audain Art Museum Collection | Village by the Sea, Brittany: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University | Photo by K. Neary | Street in Brittany (Concarneau): McMichael Canadian Art Collection |Photo by K. Neary | War Canoes, Alert Bay: Tom and Teresa Gautreau Collection | War Canoes, Alert Bay: Audain Art Museum Collection |Photo by Lt. G.T. Emmons, Canadian Museum of History | Totem Poles, Kitseukla (Gitsegukla): Vancouver Art Gallery | Kispiox, the Totem of the Bear and the Moon: Private collection
Director's Foreword by Dr. Curtis Collins
Essays by Dr. Kathryn Bridge, Dr. Michael Polay, Kiriko Watanabe, and Robin Laurence
160 pages
8 x 9.5 inches
ISBN 9781773270913
Hardcover
Figure 1 Publishing
2019