◧ Artist: Emily Carr (1871-1945) ◧ Country: Canada
◧ Title: [Forest, British Columbia]
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 130 x 86.8 cm
◧ Medium: Oil painting on canvas
◧ Painting Size: 130 x 86.8 cm
◧ Museum: Vancouver Art Gallery
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◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Canada
◧ Date of Issue: May 7, 1991
◧ Face Value: 50 Cents
◧ Issued as a part of "Masterpieces of Canadian Art"
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Emily Carr is one of Canada’s best-known artists. Her life and work reflect a profound commitment to the land and peoples she knew and loved. Her sensitive evocations reveal an artist grappling with the spiritual questions that the Canadian landscape and culture inspired in her.
[Forest, British Columbia] suggests a mythologizing of the forest subject: the scene is illuminated from within, while the folds of foliage disturb the processional composition and its spatial order. The measured interlocking treatment of all areas of the composition seems to imply, within a collective subject, the unifying force that becomes a vital signature in Carr’s late painting. (excerpt from "Emily Carr:Life & Work by Lisa Baldissera)
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