The laughing one: a journey to Emily Carr

From: Herizons | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Pratt, Mary-reviewer; Crean, Susan | Copyright information

HARPERFLAMINGO, 2001

SUSAN CREAN

When I first looked through Susan Crean's Journey to Emily Carr, The Laughing One, I wondered why there were so few illustrations. As I began to study the text, I wanted to see paintings by Frances Hodgkins. I wanted to study the student work of Emily Carr and compare it to the early work by Georgia O'Keeffe. I wanted to look into the faces of her sisters, and certainly into the eyes of her father, who was perhaps responsible for the apparent cel...

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