Emily Carr Collected
Collected
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- May 2013
- Category
- Canadian, General
- Recommended Age
- 15
- Recommended Grade
- 10
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771000802
- Publish Date
- May 2013
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
A smartly packaged, affordably priced collection of the works of a Canadian icon.
Nearly seventy years after her death, Emily Carr's works continue to capture the grandeur of British Columbia's landscape and define our vision of the nation. The approximately one hundred works reproduced in this collection showcase the breadth of Carr's career, from early watercolours in Skidegate and Alert Bay on the northwest coast to charcoal sketches in mid-career to the stunning oils of trees, ravens, and mountains that characterized her later career.
Beautifully designed, its small format and price ideal for giftbuyers and visitors to the province, this volume is a compendium of some of Carr's best and most memorable works.
About the author
Ian M. Thom is a Senior Curator-Historical at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Involved in Canadian art museums for more than thirty years, he has also held senior curatorial positions at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He has organized more than one hundred exhibitions and written numerous articles and authored or co-authored many books, including Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn, Andy Warhol: Images, Art BC, E.J. Hughes, Takao Tanabe, B.C. Binning, Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon and Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast. He lives in Vancouver, BC.
Librarian Reviews
Emily Carr Collected
This small format art book published in association with the Vancouver Art Gallery includes a short biography of Emily Carr that traces the arc of her artistic life and includes 130 pages of high quality colour plates of her most important works. Her work is organized chronologically so as to facilitate reference to them when reading the biography. A detailed list of the works is included at the end of the book. The biography will serve art students well in that it shows the uneven path an artist’s career can follow and the value of perseverance and a reset when things don’t turn out as planned. It also shows the value (with corresponding colour plates) of revisiting past works when new skills and/or insights are attained.Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. BC Books for BC Schools. 2013-2014.