Emily Carr’s Death – Cause and Date

The painter Emily Carr died at the age of 73. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Canadian author and “Blunden Harbour” painter who was inspired by the history and culture of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. She was influenced by the post-impressionists and fauvists she encountered while living in France.

She was the second-youngest of nine siblings born to Richard and Emily Carr in British Columbia. Her family was very British, and her father insisted on upholding the English customs and traditions. She was raised Presbyterian and was required to give a sermon to her family each week, something she never quite mastered.

Quotes

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Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s eternal love affairs.

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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

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I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

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Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.