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| Emily Carr was "KLEE WYCK,"
"Laughing One," to the First Nations of British Columbia. She went
among them to paint their totems and villages and her experiences form
the basis for the pieces in Klee Wyck. Full of humour, pathos and warm
understanding, the anecdotes reflect the affinity she felt for these people.
A Canadian classic.
ISBN 0-7725-1615-4
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Completed just before her death in 1945, "GROWING
PAINS" is Emily Carr's carefully crafted portrait of an artist:
her girlhood in Victoria, B. C.; her training as a painter; the initial
rejection and eventual acceptance of her painting by the Canadian people.
This autobiographical collection is incalculable for revealing the face she wanted to show the world and the rich texture of her life. ISBN 0-7725-1614-6 Price: $8.95 plus applicable taxes. Note: all prices quoted are in Canadian funds. |
"The House of All Sorts could not have been quite
itself in any other spot in the world than just where it stood, here, in
Victoria..."
The title of this collection refers to the apartment house Emily Carr built in 1913 when she gave up teaching art and hoped to realize enough from rents to support her devotion to her painting. This is the story of her experiences as a landlady - a bitterly unhappy period of more than twenty years. War and economic conditions forced her to supplement her income, leaving little time for art. Only her animals and the pleasure of an occasional sketching trip to the woods alleviated her misery. THE HOUSE OF ALL SORTS is an unforgettable and moving memoir. ISBN 0-7725-1616-2 Price: $8.95 plus applicable taxes. Note: all prices quoted are in Canadian funds. |
"THE BOOK of SMALL"
"Small roamed beach and woods, the dog with her always. Owning him was better even than she had dreamed." Who was Small? She was the embodiment of Emily Carr's childhood - a phantom child. In this collection of vignettes, the reader sees life in Victoria, B. C., at the end of the last century, as observed by a little girl of intense imagination. Delightful and memorable storytelling. ISBN 0-7725-1613-8
Note: all prices quoted are in Canadian funds. |
Emily Carr chose to call her published journals
"HUNDREDS
AND THOUSANDS" after the minute English candies so small they need
to be eaten by the mouthful to be appreciated.
"Too insignificant to have been considered individually, but like Hundreds and Thousands lapped up and sticking to our moist tongues, the little scraps and nothingnesses of my life have made a definite pattern." In her notebooks, she chronicled her philosophy of art, her criticism of her own work and others', her hopes and fears. She also wrote of the subjects she painted - the sea, sky and forests of British Columbia. A personal and passionate manifesto of an extraordinary artist. ISBN 0-7725-1617-0 Price: $8.95 plus applicable taxes. Note: all prices quoted are in Canadian funds. |
"The COMPLETE WRITINGS
of EMILY CARR"
"Young, spirited and rebellious, Emily Carr 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. For many women, she is a heroine because
of her tenacity and
- Mary Pratt
Price: $40.00 plus applicable taxes. Note: all prices quoted are in Canadian funds.
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