Emily Carr
Hannah Saffel
Personal background
• Born on December 13, 1871 in
Victoria, British Columbia
• Died on March 2, 1995 in Victoria,
British Columbia
Personal background
• Became an orphan in early teens
• Adopted by Richard (father) and
Emily (mother)
• Was second youngest of five
children
Significant
• Was one of the Group of • Main themes in
Seven
mature work was
mother nature
- Franklin Carmichael,
Lawren Harris,
A.Y.Jackson, Frank
Johnston, Arthur
Lismer, J.E.H.Macdonald,
and Fredrick Varly
Significant
• Quilts of her
painterly skill &
vision enabled her
to imagine
• Paints the rhythms
of the western
forests drift wood
Significant
• Wrote six books
5 called the Heart
• 1 called Klee
Of the Ape Koth
Wyck, 2 called the
and 6 called
book of Small, 3
Hundred and
called the House
Thousands
of All Sorts,4
called Growing
Pains,
Bibliography
• World Book Encyclopedia
Volume 3, Book C
• Ask.com
• En.Wikipedia. Org
• World book online