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She painted the soul of the Pacific Northwest — and paid for being ahead of her time. In this volume of the Extraordinary Canadians series, painter-novelist Lewis DeSoto portrays Emily Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the sublime: from proper Victorian girlhood in Victoria to the remote Indigenous villages and rain-soaked forests that became her great subjects.
DeSoto writes as a fellow artist — which gives this biography its special charge. He understands the hunger that drove Carr to sketch totem poles in abandoned Haida villages, to push past the polite watercolours expected of a lady painter, to keep working through poverty, illness, and decades of indifference, until recognition finally came in her fifties — her friendship with the Group of Seven, her breakthrough exhibitions.
A compact 208 pages, this is also a meditation on what it costs to see differently: a creator of extraordinary power and unusual courage, a seeker of mystical truth who found it in cedar and sky. Essential for lovers of Canadian art.
Emily Carr painted the soul of the Pacific Northwest — and paid a steep price for being ahead of her time. In this volume of the Extraordinary Canadians series, painter and novelist Lewis DeSoto portrays Carr as a woman in search of God, freedom, and the sublime, tracing her journey from a proper Victorian girlhood in Victoria to the remote Indigenous villages and rain-soaked forests that became her great subjects.
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DeSoto writes as a fellow artist, which gives this biography its special charge. He understands the hunger that drove Carr to sketch totem poles in abandoned Haida villages, to push past the polite watercolours expected of a lady painter, and to keep working through poverty, illness, and decades of indifference. When recognition finally came — her friendship with the Group of Seven, her breakthrough exhibitions — Carr was already in her fifties.
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Published by Penguin Canada in 2009, this compact biography (208 pages) is also a meditation on what it costs to see differently. DeSoto’s Carr is a creator of extraordinary power and unusual courage, a seeker of mystical truth who found it in cedar and sky. Essential reading for lovers of Canadian art, and for anyone who has ever felt out of step with their own time.
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