Emily Carr
Sign in to saveAlso known as M. Emily Carr, Emily M. Carr, Klee Wyck
Canadian painter and writer (1871–1945)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Positive Paths to Wellbeing
- The book of Small
- Growing Pains
- Heart of a Peacock
- House of All Sorts
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1941-07-19
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 73
- Total plays
- 246
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,903x
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,985x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,794x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,265x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even coming and going.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Millie Emily Carr , ( 1871-12-13 ) December 13, 1871, Victoria, British Columbia , Canada
- Died
- March 2, 1945 (1945-03-02) (aged 73), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Resting place
- Ross Bay Cemetery , Victoria, British Columbia
- Education
- San Francisco Art Institute Westminster School of Art Académie Colarossi
- Known for
- Painting, writing
- Notable work
- The Indian Church , Big Raven , Klee Wyck
- Style
- Post-Impressionism
- Movement
- Group of Seven (associated)
via Wikipedia infobox
~28 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today.
Carr's keynote paintings, such as The Indian Church (1929), were not widely known in Canada at first. But her stature as one of Canada's most important artists continued to grow. Today, she is considered a cherished, even revered figure of Canadian arts and letters. Scholars and the public alike regard her as a Canadian national treasure and the Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a Canadian icon. She has been designated a National Historic Person and had a Minor planet 5688 Kleewyck named after her anglicized native name (Klee Wyck). As one scholar in her 2014 book on Carr, put it, "we love her and she continues to speak to us".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Emily Carr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.