Emily Carr
Juan de Fuca Strait
Artist
Emily Carr
Victoria 1871 – Victoria 1945
Title
Juan de Fuca Strait
Date
1936-1937
Materials
Oil on paper mounted on plywood
Dimensions
58.4 x 89.2 cm
Credits
Gift in honour and in memory of the pianist John Newmark, inv. 2008.77
Collection
Quebec and Canadian Art
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.
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