Emily Carr. The Untold Story.
Saanichton: Hancock House, 1978. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. This volume is an in depth look at the more personal side of one of Canada's most prominent and memorable artist/writers. Emily Carr emerges as a sort of rotund, Victorian matron, a humorous, smiling lady with a strong and dominating personality--a woman fascinated by Indian totems, who worked out of a caravan near the woods painting subjects in many cases never previously seen on canvas.Portions of Emily Carr's humorous Sketch Books, which include free hand drawings of animals plus writings and jottings by the artist in her own inimitable style, are collected here for the first time. In Edythe Schleicher's remarkable portrait, Item #28933
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