Adapted from:
"Private journal of Emily Carr".
Ottawa Citizen., October 22, 1966.
Emily Carr, who died 19 years ago, posthumously won fame as Canada's greatest woman painter and as a talented writer. Her Klee Wyck won a Governor - General's Award.
Emily Carr was accustomed to "word" the impressions she wished to capture in her paintings. While in her fifties, she began to keep a diary, recording daily events, her thoughts and philosophy, her satisfactions and frustrations.
Clarke, Irwin and Co. will publish these notebooks on Oct. 20, entitled
There will be two editions: regular, at $10; and a limited edition, numbered and boxed, with a folio of prints and facsimile pages, and with essays on Emily Carr's life and work by Lawren Harris and Ira Dilworth, priced at $30. Both editions contain 12 reproductions of paintings, in color.
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