Emily Carr on-line collection.
Founded in 1931, the Vancouver Art Gallery is the largest Canadian art museum west of Toronto and the fourth largest in Canada. It is located in an important heritage building in the heart of downtown Vancouver. Formerly a provincial courthouse built in 1910, the building complex was renovated in 1983 by Arthur Erickson to include 40 000 square feet of exhibition space on four floors. Among its exhibition spaces is a gallery permanently devoted to changing exhibitions of work by Emily Carr.Works of Emily Carr form one of the major strengths of the Gallery's collections of almost 7000 works of art. Other important areas of the collection include works by modern and contemporary B.C. and Canadian artists and contemporary international art.
The Gallery has an active program of touring and in-house exhibitions. It is complemented by a wide range of programs and events that help the Gallery carry out its goal to "engage people in contemporary ideas and issues by preserving, researching, interpreting and displaying visual art".
More information about the Vancouver Art Gallery and its exhibitions and programs can be obtained by visiting our web site, by contacting media@vanartgallery.bc.ca or by calling our recorded information line at (604) 662-4719.
The Vancouver Art Gallery's Emily Carr collection constitutes the most important group of paintings and drawings by this artist. The Gallery owns almost 250 works by Carr, including almost 150 paintings.
The Vancouver Art Gallery acquired its first Carr work, Totem Poles, Kitseulka in 1937. The majority of the Gallery's Carr holdings, some 190 works dating from 1895 to 1942, comprise the Emily Carr Trust. The Trust was established by the artist shortly before her death in 1945 as a gift to the people of British Columbia. An original group of about 50 pictures was selected by Carr. Among them were some of her most famous works, including Big Raven, Tree Trunk, and Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky. After Carr's death, her artistic executors selected other works to be added to the Trust collection. Since then, the Vancouver Art Gallery has continued actively to collect works in all media by Emily Carr.
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