Winner, Canadian Museum Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research -- Art

Emily Carr captures the natural and cultural landscapes of British Columbia like no other artist before or after her.

This major volume, designed to accompany an exhibition organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, gathers work from all phases of this extraordinary artist's career -- from her delicate early watercolours of the 1890s to her expressive hybrids of the 1930s and 1940s, which carry European and North American Modernist traditions with the formal stylizations of Indigenous design.

Carr's lifelong fascination with British Columbia's original inhabitants transformed her. Visiting First Nations villages up and down the coast, she absorbed the essence of the place she loved so well. Those experiences changed her life and charged her work, inspiring her imagination.

This monumental volume features more than 100 colour reproductions of Carr's work, including some of her most renowned paintings, in dialogue with dozens of indigenous artifacts from the Pacific Northwest: historic masks, baskets, and ceremonial objects by Haida, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, Salish, Tlingit, and Tsimshian makers. Drawn from public and private collections, including the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum, Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, these artifacts illuminate Carr's connections to Indigenous cultures.

From the Forest to the Sea features written contributions by Toronto writer and art critic Sarah Milroy; Ian Dejardin, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery (London) acclaimed contemporary artists Peter Doig and Jessica Stockholder; leading Carr scholars Ian Thom, Charles Hill, Kathryn Bridge, and Gerta Moray; Haida hereditary chief and master carver James Hart; Kwakwaka'wakw artists Corrine Hunt and Marianne Nicolson; and anthropologists Robert Storrie and Karen Duffek. Together, they illuminate Carr's immense legacy and the connections to First Nations culture that inspired her work.

Author: Sarah Milroy
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 4.65lbs
Size: 11.10h x 9.80w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780864928696


Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 05/01/2015 pg. 34

About the Author
Teitelbaum, Matthew: - Matthew Teitelbaum is the Michael and Sonja Koerner Director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario.Stockholder, Jessica: - Internationally celebrated artist Jessica Stockholder was raised in Vancouver, BC. She is the former Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale University and is currently Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. Her work is held in the collections of many prominent museums around the world.Storrie, Robert: - Robert Storrie is currently Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, London. Prior to this he was Curator of the North American Collections at the British Museum. He has a long-standing interest in hunter-gatherer cosmologies and ecologies, looking especially at taxonomy and classification.
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