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Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2,
1945) was a Canada|Canadian artist and writer.

She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and
moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after
the death of her parents. In 1910, she spent a
year studying art at the Académie Colarossi in
Paris before moving back to British Columbia
permanently the following year.

Carr was most heavily influenced by the landscape
and First Nations cultures of British Columbia,
Alaska, and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest. In
1908 she began to paint Haida and Tlingit totem
poles, in an attempt to record all the remaining
poles in the province. Her studies in France
influenced her impressionism|impressionist style,
which was, at first, not well-received in the
Canadian art world. In 1913 she exhibited hundreds
of her paintings depicting native culture, but it
was largely ignored. She then tried to sell the
paintings to the government of British Columbia,
but the province was not interested. Because of
this she gave up painting as a profession for over
a decade.

In the 1920s she came into contact with members of
the Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven, who
had come to British Columbia for inspiration. A.
Y. Jackson especially noticed the resemblance of
her style to the style of the Group of Seven and
introduced her to the art world of eastern Canada.
She travelled to Ontario in 1927 where her
paintings were included in a Group of Seven
exhibition for the National Gallery of Canada.  

The Tlingit First Nation of British Columbia
nicknamed Carr Klee Wyck, "the laughing one." She
gave this name to a book about her experiences
with the natives, published in 1941. The book won
the Governor General's Award that year. In 1945
she published an autobiography of her childhood in
Victoria, entitled Growing Pains.

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, and Emily
Carr Elementary School in Vancouver, British
Columbia are named after her.

Emily Carr is interred in the Ross Bay Cemetery in
Victoria.

==External links==
*http://www.emilycarr.ca/ Emily Carr's Official
Website
*http://www.emilycarr.com/ Emily Carr House
*The full text of some of Emily Carr's books are
available from http://gutenberg.net.au/ Project
Gutenberg of Australia.