"The Art of Emily Carr is in every way a splendid
production. The sensitive judgments, the poised and flawlessly apt prose, make it a model of clear writing... a monumental achievement in writing, understanding, design and production." 
                                                                                - George Woodcock 

"The best kind of popularization, an intelligent account of this odd-lady-out who painted some of the most magnificent pictures of this Canadian century...Be surprised; be troubled; and know this is the kind of art book to take with you to the moon."

- John Bentley Mays, Maclean's 

"Handsomely designed on the page, faithful in its
 reproductions and splendid in its scope."

- Arnold Edinborough, The Financial Post 

"A stunning achievement.. that represents a milestone in Canadian publishing." 

- The Victoria Times - Colonist 

 ISBN 0-88894-441-1 
 Price: $45.00 plus applicable taxes. 
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Emily Carr: A Biography is a remarkable portrait of one of Canada's most celebrated artists. Emily Carr's life was filled with tension, between the conventions of society and her own originality, between her relationships with others and her often  lonely struggle to overcome obstacles, between happiness and despair. Maria Tippett has captured the essence of this complex life; weaving a narrative that is at once sympathetic and penetrating. 

ISBN 07737-5712-0

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"Here we get the inimitable revelation of the practical everyday and earthy Emily, the naturally domestic woman who loves 'houses and gardens and home things,' the irrepressible comic who sees things naturally in terms of amusing homey metaphor...Doreen Walker has done a scholarly and patient job of assembling and editing the material. Her comprehensive and thorough notes as well as the introduction comprise a document of considerable value in itself."

 - Doris Shadbolt, author of The Art of Emily Carr (1990).

"This group of letters has a sweep to it, a sense of change through time, that is quite exciting, especially in the degree to which it deals with everyday details of a highly createve life,  advancing against increasingly difficult odds...an important, revealing record of a significant cultural life and of cultural life in general in Victoria and Vancouver."

 - Dennis Reid, curator of Canadian historical art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Professor,
 History of Art, University of Toronto. 

 ISBN 0-7748-0348-7 (cloth)
 ISBN 0-7748-0390-8 (paper) 
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"Some can be active to a great age but enjoy little," observed Emily Carr shortly before her death in 1945. "I have lived." 

The impressive scope of Carr's art and her unorthodox life are the subjects of art educator  Anne Newlands' latest book. In a text that skillfully
blends selections from Carr's own writings with
illustrated commentary, Newlands creates a delightful look at one of Canada's best-known artists. 

Emily Carr: An Introduction to Her Life and Art will lead you to the West Coast, where Carr spent much of her life in a world of richly drawn First Nations villages and totems, dark, haunting forests, wild beaches and vast skies. There, you will meet the unconventional woman -- "the little old lady on the edge of nowhere," as she called herself -- who helped define the face of Canadian art. 

 ISBN 1-55209-045-0 
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Emily Carr was one of Canada's most gifted painters and writers. Born in colonial Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, she showed an early desire to commit her life to art, and before she was twenty had persuaded her family to allow her to attend art school. Study in San Francisco, London and Paris followed, but her heart never left the British Columbia coast, which remained the strongest influence on her life and work. 
Fiercely independent and defiantly individualistic, she was considered an eccentric by the society around her. Working largely in isolation, without the example of strong women artists to look to, and years ahead of the art of her time and place, Carr demolished some traditionally cherished notions about women artists.  Paula Blanchard has devoted seven years to a study of the life and works of Emily Carr and has given us a sympathetic portrait of a living, breathing, very human being who was also a great artist. 

 ISBN 0-88894-604-X 
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"Kate Braid has been powerfully attracted to Emily carr - as woman of great courage and perseverance, as a passionate painter and a memorable writer. And without doubt Emily Carr - who never could abide sycophantic flattery - would have recognized a sympathetic spirit in the strength, unadorned directness and clarity of these poems which she inspired Kate to write. In coupling quotations from Carr's Journals with her own vibrant poetry, Braid has created a wonderful book."

- Doris Shadbolt, author of The Art of Emily Carr 

                                                                           ISBN 1-896095-08-9 
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