* Nicolas Debon Four Pictures by Emily Carr.(Children's Review)(Book Review)

From: The Horn Book Magazine | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

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32 pp. Groundwood 8/03 ISBN 0-88899-532-6 15.95 (Intermediate, Middle School)

The life of artist Emily Carr receives an innovative treatment in this involving portrait. Born into a large family on Canada's west coast in 1871, Emily showed early artistic promise and a gender role-defying independence and strength. Drawn toward wilderness subjects and the native people of her area, she spent much of her life feeling discouraged about her abilities as a painter and eventually gave up painting completely. At the age of fifty-six, her earlier work was ...

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