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The intention of this book is to
provide an overview of the art of Emily Carr and a fuller appreciation of her dimension as an
artist than now exists. It presents a broad visual base for tracing the development of her form in
relation to her thought processes, and makes extensive use of her writing in attempting an
understanding of her art and her artistic stance. I first encountered Carr's work when, as a junior employee of the Art Gallery of Toronto, I took part in the preparation for her large exhibition at that institution in 1943. Making thumbnail sketches of her paintings at that time helped impress on me the strong and individual character of her vision. Years later, when I was working at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Director Richard Simmins encouraged me to take advantage of its major Carr collection, and I began work that was to lead to a catalogue raisonnee of her art. That project was doomed to be left uncompleted, considering the lack to time to devote to it and the prolific and disparate nature of her output. But the work begun then formed a basis for the Carr Centennial exhibition of 1971, and in turn for this present publication. From the Preface by Doris Shadbolt |
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