Best Selling Books by Emily Carr

Celebrate the Northwest with this beautiful, hardcover blank journal featuring an Emily Carr painting from The Pacific Northwest Landscape. Partial proceeds from the sale of this journal will benefit Northwest Bookfest, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring people together to celebrate the power of the written word and promote literacy.

In Emily Carr''s autobiography ''Growing Pains,'' the author takes readers on a journey through her life, starting with her childhood and following her growth as an artist. The book is written in a straightforward and honest style, reflecting Carr''s passion for nature and her struggles to establish herself as a respected artist in a male-dominated world. Carr''s vivid descriptions of the Canadian landscape and her inner thoughts provide a rich literary context that offers readers a deep insight into her work as a painter. Through her personal reflections, Carr shows the development of her unique artistic vision and the challenges she faced along the way. This autobiography serves as a valuable source for understanding Carr''s art and the influences that shaped her career. Emily Carr, a renowned Canadian artist, drew inspiration from her experiences in nature and the Indigenous cultures of British Columbia. ''Growing Pains'' reflects Carr''s deep connection to the land and her desire to capture the essence of the Canadian wilderness in her art. Her autobiography sheds light on the personal struggles and triumphs that shaped her artistic journey, making it a compelling read for anyone interested in Canadian art history or the life of a groundbreaking female artist. I highly recommend ''Growing Pains'' to readers who appreciate autobiographies that offer a glimpse into the creative process of an artist. Carr''s candid storytelling and raw emotions make this book a captivating read that will leave a lasting impact on anyone intrigued by the life and work of Emily Carr.

THE BOOK OF SMALL by EMILY CARR was first published in 1942 - a collection of reminiscences about her childhood in early Victoria. "British Columbia Nightingale" relates to a remark made by her father. He compares the strange sound that so alarmed Emily, to a British Columbia nightingale - a bird that in his native England is noted for its sweet song. KATHLEEN LYNCH''S watercolors bring the story to life as Emily''s young imagination runs wild identifying the unfamiliar sound.

How does a love poet fall out of her marriage and back in love with the world? What happens when you grow up to be the "kind of person who..."? These fairytales are for the heartbreakers as much as the heartbroken, for those smitten with wanderlust, for those who believe in loving this world through art. A singular flow of bewildered brilliance, Emily Carr''s swiftly flowing sequence of love poems--divorce poems, really--engages the very real problem of falling out of love because (admit it!) you never think you will. No matter how many times it''s happened before. Imagine it: not limiting love to the erotic but embracing endeavor, struggle, social change, and political action. Love as consciousness, inventiveness, and intention. In a world that hurts as much as it holds. Carr''s swell of gorgeous psychedelia is presented in a lavish book-object befitting the work''s interconnected, page-defying sweep of line upon line: between her thighs, the buffalo holding sky. saucers of mountain sway. deities spill, shining & suffering ... not forgetting we can''t ever--whose fury sings like eagles-- skeletons unlean from fruit trees, falling like white gunsmoke, we want/ to be here. listen. the wind has blown all the birds from our hair.

Wild Flowers is a collection of Emily Carr''s delightfully evocative impressions of native flowers and shrubs. She wrote these short pieces later in life and they rekindled in her strong childhood memories and associations. She delights in the brightness of buttercups that let Spring''s secret out, muses over the hardiness of stonecrop (How any plant can grow on bare rock and be so fleshy leafed and fat is a marvel.) and declares that botanical science has un-skunked the skunk cabbage. Carr''s playful words often bring a smile to readers. About catnip, she writes: I did think it was kind of God to make a special flower for cats. In a brief Foreword and Afterword, archivist and historian Kathryn Bridge gives context to Wild Flowers within the body of Carr''s previously published writings. Wild Flowers 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. Woods'' paintings fit so well with Carr''s text. 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. - Kathryn Bridge

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"Missus couldn''t run the studio without me," says Billie the dog. This perpetual calendar is much more than 12 pictures with spaces for notes. Join Emily Carr''s faithful companion, Studio Billie, on this light-hearted journey through a year in his life. It''s 1909 and "the missus" runs a painting studio in Victoria, where she gives lessons to students and paints her own works. Studio Billie is with her always, except when "chained to a wretched kennel" when visiting relatives, or when having to spend time "down on cold rheumatic wind-swept lower decks, when they travel with their missuses holidaying." With Studio Billie''s Calendar, you can share a year with Emily Carr and her loyal dog. Use it year after year to record birthdays, anniversaries and other "splendacious" occasions.

Emily Carr’s painting and writing were inspired by her lifelong fascination with Native culture and the landscape of British Columbia that she so cherished. Available for the first time in enriched e-book format, this edition offers visual and historical insights into Carr''s perspective via electronic weblinks. Like a full-colour footnote, select words and phrases throughout the book are links to websites that contain a wealth of additional information, pictures, definitions and historical information that gives context to the text. Now, with the click of a mouse, you can investigate the world of Emily Carr without having to leave your screen. Klee Wyck, first published in 1941, is a collection of twenty-one sketches that document her experiences with British Columbia’s indigenous people. It won the Governor General’s Award that same year. The title Klee Wyck originated from the nickname given to Carr by one of the Native communities she befriended at Ucluelet. It means "laughing one."

Victoria, BC, 11 July 191 . . . With red eyes and a body guard of sniffing "faithfuls" attending us, we start on our long trip abroad. . . . So begins Emily Carr''s memoirs of her trip to England with her sister Alice. They travel across Canada by rail to board an ocean liner in Quebec City, meeting interesting characters and having many adventures along the way. They hike in "gloriously cool and beautiful" Glacier House, and encounter porcupines and wasps in otherwise "heavenly" Lake Louise. They carry on to the "wonderful little town" of Medicine Hat, then Winnipeg, Montreal and "wonderful historic old" Quebec City, where they prepare for boarding the Empress of Ireland for Liverpool. Sister and I presents Emily Carr''s whimsical account of her trip across Canada, written and illustrated in her own hand, directly from Carr''s original notebook. This one-of-a-kind book is introduced by Kathryn Bridge, who places it in context with Carr''s life and works.

"Convoluted Beauty examines Carr''s legacy through work by major international artists, including: Thomas Zipp (Germany), Louise Lawler (USA), Mark Wallinger (UK), and commissioned projects by Canadian artists Nathan and Cedric Bomford, Karen Tam, Marianne Nicolson and Joanne Bristol. The exhibition also includes work from across Carr''s career, generously loaned from the collections of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Vancouver Art Gallery."--Publisher''s website.

Typed copy of three talks by Emily Carr; one of her letters; and a letter about her.