Completed just before just before her death in 1945, Growing Pains is Emily Carr's carefully-crafted portrait of an artist: her girlhood in Victoria, B.C.; her training as a painter; the initial rejection and eventual acceptance of her painting by the Canadian people. This autobiographical collection is invaluable for revealing the face she wanted to show the world and the rich texture of her life.
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Emily Carr, generally considered Canada's most famous woman painter, was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871 and died there in 1945. She was an unusually gifted woman renowned not only for her magnificent paintings, but for her extraordinarily vivid and imaginative prose. She began writing late in life when she was forced by failing health to curtail her sketching activities. Her first book, Klee Wyck, was an instant success and won a Governor General's award.
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I love reading about Emily Carr, and this is the first biographical book I read. While it does begin in her childhood, it concetrates on her time in the U.K, studying around the turn of the century. To read other parts in more detail you might need to read Klee Wyck or The Book of Small. Or just buy the book of all her writing in one.I really enjoy her honest style of writing, the way she saw things and said what was on her mind. She must have driven her more proper sisters nuts. She's a wonderful example of what you can do if you put your mind to it, especially as a woman back in that day and age. A great read whether you're an artist or just interested in autobiographies.
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This is an interesting read. If you are an Emily Carr lover, then you must add this book to your library.
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OVER THE PAST few decades, Emily Carr's reputation has soared so high that it now can be argued she is Canada's best-known artist, historic or contemporary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Klee Wyck, San Francisco, New York, Miss Green, Aunt Rodgers, Lawren Harris, Architectural Museum, Miss Dreier, Art Club, Aunt Amelia, Old World, British Columbia, Indian Church, Westminster Abbey, Beacon Hill, Last Chance, National Gallery, The Book of Small, Vincent Square, Eric Brown, Group of Seven, Little Canary, Long Island, New Art, Telegraph Hill New!
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OVER THE PAST few decades, Emily Carr's reputation has soared so high that it now can be argued she is Canada's best-known artist, historic or contemporary. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Klee Wyck, San Francisco, New York, Miss Green, Aunt Rodgers, Lawren Harris, Architectural Museum, Miss Dreier, Art Club, Aunt Amelia, Old World, British Columbia, Indian Church, Westminster Abbey, Beacon Hill, Last Chance, National Gallery, The Book of Small, Vincent Square, Eric Brown, Group of Seven, Little Canary, Long Island, New Art, Telegraph Hill New!
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- The Group of Seven by National Gallery Of Canada on 4 pages
- Klee Wyck by Emily Carr in Front Matter, and page 325
- Canadian Art Movement: Story of the Group of Seven by F. Housser on page 284, and page 319
- The House of All Sorts by Emily Carr in Front Matter
- Long Island (America and Her People) by Bill Harris on page 293
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- Emily Carr: An Introduction to Her Life and Art by Anne Newlands on 14 pages
- Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own by Ms. Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall on 14 pages
- Corresponding Influence: Selected Letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth by Linda Morra on 13 pages
- The Art of Emily Carr by Doris Shadbolt on 10 pages
- Klee Wyck by Emily Carr on 5 pages
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