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Emily Carr

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Emily Carr 1871-1945, Canadian painter. She studied (1889-c.1895) at the San Francisco School of Art and later in London and in Paris. In Victoria, British Columbia, she taught painting and visited native villages. From her study of totem poles and other indigenous art, she developed a powerful style marked by simplified forms and a fauvist intensity of color. She wrote Klee Wyck (1941) and The House of All Sorts (1944).

Bibliography: See her autobiography, Growing Pains (1946).

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