Complete Writings of Emily Carr

by Emily Carr, introduction by Doris Shadbolt

tagged: essays, artists, architects, photographers

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The official omnibus of Emily Carr's beloved writings, including Klee Wyck, The Book of Small, The House of All Sorts, Growing Pains, The Heart of a Peacock, Pause: A Sketch Books, and Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist. This text also includes an introductions by Doris Shadbolt, which looks at Emily Carr's double achievement as a painter and writer, drawing insightful connections between her personality and her work.

About the Authors

Emily Carr

Young, spirited and rebellious, Emily Carr escaped a strict Victorian household to study art in the Paris of Picasso and Matisse. In middle age, she shook the dust of acceptable society from her shoes and began a passionate journey into the wilderness of British Columbia; the power of her genius made her one of the twentieth century's great painters. Fortunately, she also wrote. In her books, her warmth, her humanity, her sense of fun and the ridiculous combine to present a self-portrait of a remarkable woman and artist. -- Mary Pratt

Doris Shadbolt’s long association with the museum world has included positions at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario), the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, but chiefly she is known for her curatorial work at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where she remained for more than twenty-five years. She has authored and edited numerous books, including The Art of Emily Carr, Bill Reid, The Complete Writings of Emily Carr and Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada.

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Complete Writings of Emily Carr

by Emily Carr, introduction by Doris Shadbolt

Emily Carr

Out of print