Presenting three titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. Canada’s vast wilderness presents many opportunities for artists to capture its beauty in their distinct styles, and the country has produced its share of talented landscape painters. Tom Thomson’s work is known the world over for its wild, vivid portrayals of Ontario’s wilderness. Emily Carr captured the lushness of the west coast as well as the traditional culture of the indigenous peoples. Lesser known, James Wilson Morrice also contributed to Canada’s landscape painting legacy through paintings inspired by such artists as the Impressionists and Van Gogh. These artists’ lives are as fascinating as their work. Includes Emily Carr Tom Thomson James Wilson Morrice
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Kate Braid. Canadian Artists Bundle
Preface
1. Meeting D’Sonoqua
2. Growing up Small
3. Seeking Art
4. Breakdown
5. Digging In
6. Finding color
7. Buried in Dirt
8. Breakthrough
9. Finding Forest
10. Success
11. Solace
Afterword
Chronology of Emily Carr (1871-1945)
Sources Consulted
Index
Introduction
1. An Excavation at Canoe Lake
2. From Forests to Fields
3. A Young Man About Town
4. Shooting the Rapids
5. Storm Clouds on the Horizon
6. Bursts of Light and Colour
7. In the Northland
8. The Pageant of the North
9. An Overturned Canoe
10. Establishing the Icon
Epigraph
Bibliography
Chronology of Tom Thomson (1877–1917)
Prologue. On the Quai des Grands Augustins
1. A Mansion in the Square Mile
2. The Privilege of Floating Over Things
3. Fontainebleau Forest to the Brittany Coast
4. A Face in a Window
5. Tales of the Boulevardier
6. Winter in Quebec
7. Under the Blazing Sun
8. Downward Spiral
9. Paris Will Never be the Same
10. No Fixed Landing Place
Chronology of James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924)
Sources Consulted
Index
Copyright
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Language has changed since Emily Carr’s time. For example, in Emily’s day First Nations people were called “Indians,” and their own names and place names were arbitrarily anglicized. The large set of islands north of Vancouver Island that are today called Haida Gwaii were then called the “Queen Charlotte Islands”; the Kwakwaka’wakw people were referred to as “Kwakiutl”; the Nuu-chah-nulth as “Nootka”; and so on. For gender, the pronoun “he” was used as a neutral word to refer to both men and women.
When quoting her, I repeat Emily’s own vocabulary, which will at times sound old-fashioned to modern ears. In the rest of the text, I have tried to remain true to current spelling and names. However, in the present context of rapidly shifting linguistics, there may be inadvertent errors; if so, I would appreciate being informed of them in order to make corrections to future editions.
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“Child,” her mother said, “what ails you? You have always loved to be with your father. He adores you. What is the matter?”
“He is cross, he thinks he is as important as God.”
