First Nations War Canoes in Alert Bay
Emily Carr · 1912
Why it's great
Large carved canoes sit on the beach of Alert Bay, a First Nations village on the coast of British Columbia. Emily Carr traveled to Indigenous villages along the Pacific Coast to paint and to record carvings and village life. She wanted to preserve what she saw. It's an important record of the West Coast in the early 1900s.
Where to see it
📍 Audain Art MuseumWhistler, Canada
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Emily Carr was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and studied art in San Francisco, London and France. She became famous for her paintings of the forests, totem poles and Indigenous villages of the Pacific coast. She was also a writer and lived with many pets. She died in Victoria in 1945.
