Winner, Canadian Museum Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research -- Art Emily Carr captures the natural and cultural landscapes of British Columbia like no other artist before or after her.
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From the Forest to the Sea features written contributions by Toronto writer and art critic Sarah Milroy
Ian Dejardin, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery (London) acclaimed contemporary artists Peter Doig and Jessica Stockholder; leading Carr scholars Ian Thom, Charles Hill, Kathryn Bridge, and Gerta Moray
Haida hereditary chief and master carver James Hart
Kwakwaka\'wakw artists Corrine Hunt and Marianne Nicolson; and anthropologists Robert Storrie and Karen Duffek.
Drawn From public and private collections, including the British Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum, Horniman Museum and Gardens, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, these artifacts illuminate Carr\'s connections to Indigenous cultures.
This monumental volume features more than 100 colour reproductions of Carr\'s work, including some of her most renowned paintings, in dialogue with dozens of indigenous artifacts From the Pacific Northwest: historic masks, baskets, and ceremonial objects by Haida, Kwakwaka\'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth, Salish, Tlingit, and Tsimshian makers.
Those experiences changed her life and charged her work, inspiring her imagination.
Visiting First Nations villages up and down the coast, she absorbed the essence of the place she loved so well.
Carr\'s lifelong fascination with British Columbia\'s original inhabitants transformed her.
This major volume, designed to accompany an exhibition organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, gathers work From all phases of this extraordinary artist\'s career -- From her delicate early watercolours of the 1890s to her expressive hybrids of the 1930s and 1940s, which carry European and North American Modernist traditions with the formal stylizations of Indigenous design.
Winner, Canadian Museum Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research -- Art Emily Carr captures the natural and cultural landscapes of British Columbia like no other artist before or after her
