Emily Carr

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  • Emily Carr is born

    The artist was born in Victoria, B.C., Can.

  • Studies

    Emily studies at the San Francisco Art Institute

  • Emily's parents passed away

    Emily's parents passed away leaving her and her siblings orphaned

  • Studies in London

    Starting in 1899 and continuing until she found London too stressful, Emily Carr studied at the Westminster School of Art

  • Teaching years

    Return to Canada, to the West Coast by way of Toronto and the Cariboo region of B.C, and began teaching in Vancouver.

  • Post-impressionism

    Emilly Carr painted Breton Church during the Post-Impressionism time period. Post-Impressionism is a style of painting where bright colors, thick paint, bold brush strokes are used, along with real-life models that are sometimes emphasized through geometric shapes

  • Inspiration from Alaska

    She and her sister took a sightseeing trip to Alaska. Emily Carr chronicled the adventures extensively in her notebook and in sketches, documenting everything she experienced. The trip was to have a profound influence on Carr, who began to imagine a new project, one that would occupy the next five years of her life: documenting the Aboriginal village sites in British Columbia.

  • Back in Paris

    Emily Carr left England for the Académie Colarossi in Paris, France. Similar to London, she soon found it too stressful and transitioned to painting the French countryside.

  • Totem Period

    Blunden Harbour was created at the end of her so-called "Totem Period" or "Modernism and Late Totems". The paintings she created during this period were often dark in colour and with a similar mood. Also, she often painted struggling villages and decaying totems, to represent a "dying culture".

  • Switching talent

    When Carr's health made painting difficult for her, she turned mainly to writing, producing a series of books. The stories he wrote reflected on her life and times and brought her praise and recognition.

  • Award

    She won a Governor General's Literary Award for her 1st book published

  • Dead

    Emily Carr died on March 2nd, 1945, after a series of heart attacks and strokes.