{"title":"Emily Carr","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"wild-flowers","title":"Wild Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e is illustrated with beautiful watercolours of wild plants by Emily Henrietta Woods, one of Carr's childhood drawing teachers in Victoria. The originals of Carr’s manuscript and Woods’ botanical illustrations reside in collections of the BC Archives; neither have been published until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a brief Foreword and Afterword, archivist and historian Kathryn Bridge gives context to \u003cem\u003eWild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e within the body of Carr's previously published writings. “Woods’ paintings fit so well with Carr’s text,\" writes Bridge in the Foreword. \"It’s serendipity that Woods taught Carr and that we have her art and Carr’s manuscript in the Archives’ collection, and that neither have been published before now.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Carr (1871–1945) is one of Canada’s best-known painters and an award-winning author of several books. She exhibited artistic talent from an early age and attended art school in Victoria. One of her childhood teachers was Emily H. Woods, the illustrator of this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarr did not begin writing in earnest until later in life. As Kathryn Bridge explains in the foreword to this book, \"Emily Carr composed the 21 vignettes that make up \u003cem\u003eWild Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e during the autumn and winter of 1940-41, when she was mostly housebound, recuperating from a stroke suffered the previous June. She had also endured an angina attack in 1937 and a more serious heart attack in 1939. While spending many weeks in hospital recovering from these earlier ailments, she turned to writing, and wrote most of what would later be her first book, \u003cem\u003eKlee Wyck\u003c\/em\u003e, drafts for her autobiography, and other stories. Published in 1941,\u003cem\u003e Klee Wyck\u003c\/em\u003e won a Governor General's literary award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso by Emily Carr:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Sister and I from Victoria to London\" href=\"http:\/\/royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/shop\/product\/sister-and-i-from-victoria-to-london\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSister and I\u003c\/em\u003e from Victoria to London\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Studio Billie’s Calendar: A Perpetual Calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/shop\/product\/studio-billies-calendar\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eStudio Billie's Calendar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Illustrator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Henrietta Woods (1852-1916) was born in Ireland and moved with her family to Victoria at age 13. She became a talented artist and taught drawing at Angela College, an Anglican girls school, and at Mrs Cridge's School for Girls. Woods made it her life's work to paint more than 200 life-size, botanically accurate watercolours of wildflowers, each identified with their common and scientific names - some of these are featured in this book. She also composed landscapes in pencil and watercolours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Royal Museum Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44858003980502,"sku":"26666","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/4368\/6614\/files\/Wild-Flowers-col-348x5001.jpg?v=1704951811"},{"product_id":"pause-a-sketchbook","title":"Pause: A Sketchbook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePause\u003c\/em\u003e is the final volume in the completely redesigned set of seven books by the legendary Canadian artist and writer Emily Carr. She was renowned not only for her powerful paintings of West Coast forests and Native settlements but also for her extraordinarily vivid prose, which was enlivened by her wit and her sharp eye for the foibles of humanity. While studying at the Westminster School of Art in London, England, Carr so undermined her health by overwork that she was sent for complete rest to at Sunhill sanatorium in the country-for eighteen long months. She put down story of her convalescence as it was taking place in a sketch book that she kept during that time. Her active mind and restless nature rebelled at the hospital restrictions enforcing rest and prohibiting excitement: \"They gave us very little credit for having sense at Sunhill. We came here to pause our ordinary acitivities. Even thinking was prohibited.\" Undaunted, however, she managed to make friends, raise birds and get into mischief. In \u003cem\u003ePause\u003c\/em\u003e, Carr offers intimate and engaging and sometimes humorous sketches in words and pictures of her companions, both human and animal, and their trials and misadventures. The combination of words and drawings makes \u003cem\u003ePause\u003c\/em\u003e a unique book in her published works. \u003cem\u003ePause\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1953, eight years after the death of Emily Carr, and has remained in print ever since. Ian M. Thom, a noted authority on Carr's work, provides an informative introduction that puts \u003cem\u003ePause\u003c\/em\u003e into the context of her life, art and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Royal Museum Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44858021118166,"sku":"29513","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/4368\/6614\/files\/41E-Qej9ZyL1.jpg?v=1704952391"},{"product_id":"emily-carr-set-of-boxed-notecards-12-cards","title":"Emily Carr Set of Boxed Notecards (12 cards)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmily Carr\u003c\/strong\u003e (1871 - 1945) is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost artists and authors. Art studies led her to San Francisco, England and France, but she was claustrophobic in big cities and longed for the wilds of her west coast home, Victoria. On major sketching trips in 1912 and 1928 to isolated coastal villages Emily bravely battled privation, mosquitoes and rain, determined to produce a body of work that would direct and sustain her creative needs for years. Carr was unconventional, unapologetic, and memorable. She smoked, rode astride a horse, lived with pet rats, parrots, cats, dogs, and a monkey. Stories of her eccentric lifestyle live on, but her powerful artistic and literary interpretations of the coastal landscapes of her home, British Columbia, remain her lasting legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Royal BC Museum’s Emily Carr collection includes over 100 impressive paintings and a treasure trove of 1000 sketches and handicrafts—diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, letters and manuscripts—making up the world’s largest collection of Emily Carr materials, one which spans her entire career. Included as well are a wealth of contextual pieces: photographs, research files and sound recordings of interviews and reminiscences. The Royal BC Museum is the proud steward of this exceptional collection, which offers a uniquely holistic view of Carr’s life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Royal Museum Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44858620575958,"sku":"75625","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/4368\/6614\/files\/ECboxed-2.jpg?v=1704963707"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.rbcm.ca\/collections\/emily-carr-2.oembed","provider":"Royal Museum Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}