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Carr, Emily England
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Black-bound sketchbook "B"

One sketchbook with 33 drawings by Emily Carr within. The images include cartoons with verse, posed models. Pages of poetry includes "The Olsson Student" which refers to a separate series of images (PDP06117 to PDP06124) created by Carr, presumably also in 1904 depicting Carr's life in St Ives 1901-1902. Sketches and cartoons set in both Vancouver and Victoria are also included here.

Black-bound sketchbook "C"

Black-bound sketchbook "C"

One sketchbook with 21 drawings by Emily Carr. The drawings include figure studies, cartoon drawings and document activities in 1902 at art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England. They do not include her 1901 sojourn in Bushey. Some cartoon sketches may convey domestic incidents while boarding in private homes and include incidents concerning her landladies. One sequence appears to date from after her return to Victoria, 1904. There are also a number of poems written by Carr, notes and text that provide context for these and other sketches in the Carr fonds. The sketches include cartoon drafts for other finished works.

Emily Carr art collection

  • PR-2378
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1893]-1945

The collection consists of artwork created or acquired by Emily Carr between ca. 1893 and 1945. This collection was acquired by the BC Archives over many years through donations and purchases. It includes sketchbooks, paintings and other artworks.

Carr, Emily

Art school, St. Ives, early 1900s

Art school, St. Ives, early 1900s

One postcard photograph showing Emily Carr and other students in class at St Ives, Cornwall, England. Emily Carr has been identified as the student standing on the left with her back to the camera, wearing a hat and an apron. An unknown hand has written Emily and an arrow on the face of this postcard photograph. The image shows an art class given by either Julius Olsson or Algernon Talmage at the Harbour Studios, St. Ives. Art students Will Ashton and Hilda Fearon to Carr's left. Carr was in St. Ives 1901-1902.

Herbert Lanyon was a professional photographer resident in St Ives.

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