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Emily Carr

1871 - 1945

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Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today. Carr's keynote paintings, such as The Indian Church (1929), were not widely known in Canada at first. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emily Carr is the 1,438th most popular painter (down from 1,123rd in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Canada (down from 169th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Emily Carr ranks 1,438 out of 2,023. Before her are Theodoor Rombouts, Amasis Painter, Corneille de Lyon, Amandus Adamson, Ants Laikmaa, and Isidore Pils. After her are Ilya Glazunov, Sam Francis, Charles Demuth, Otto Muehl, Roger de La Fresnaye, and Robert Ryman.

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Among people born in 1871, Emily Carr ranks 108. Before her are Daniel Alomía Robles, Doppo Kunikida, Fritz Schaudinn, José Enrique Rodó, Lottie Dod, and Dénes Berinkey. After her are Kōtoku Shūsui, Fyodor Dan, Igor Grabar, Zacharia Paliashvili, Afonso Costa, and Olga Preobrajenska. Among people deceased in 1945, Emily Carr ranks 252. Before her are Karl Leisner, Dorothea Köring, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, Alfred Saalwächter, Joachim von Kortzfleisch, and Gustav Fehn. After her are Albert Taillandier, Emmanuel Bove, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Charles W. Gilmore, Yu Dafu, and Aleksey Krylov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Emily Carr ranks 285 out of 1,622. Before her are Oliver Platt (1960), Diana Krall (1964), Sandra Oh (1971), Jean-Claude Turcotte (1936), David Baszucki (1963), and Allan Dwan (1885). After her are Alan Thicke (1947), George Lawrence Price (1892), Alissa White-Gluz (1985), Elias Koteas (1961), John Diefenbaker (1895), and Marie-Claire Blais (1939).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Emily Carr ranks 4. Before her are Maud Lewis (1903), Jeff Wall (1946), and Agnes Martin (1912). After her are John McCrae (1872), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Tom Thomson (1877), and Rob Gonsalves (1959).

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