Indian War Canoe
Emily Carr · 1912
Why it's great
A big carved canoe from the Pacific Northwest Coast, with bold shapes and strong colors. Emily Carr, a painter from Victoria, British Columbia, visited Indigenous villages to record their carvings and canoes. She was one of the first non-Indigenous artists in Canada to take this art seriously. The picture shows her respect for the beauty of what she saw.
Where to see it
📍 Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsMontreal, 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.
