Juan de Fuca Strait

This painting dates from the 1930s, when Carr was depicting the Northwest Coast landscape without reference to the Native cultures that had inspired her previously. Lawren Harris, of the Group of Seven, advised her to “leave her Indian subject matter for a year and seek to express the spirit of British Columbia ‘in the exotic landscape of the island and coast.’” Her own discoveries then came to the fore. To the thick forests that enclosed her usual subjects, Carr now added beaches, ocean and sky.