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Emily Carr Chronology

1856

Emily's sister Edith (Dede) born

1857

Emily's sister Clara born

1967

Emily's sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) born

1869

Emily's sister Alice born

1871

Emily born December 13

1886

Mother died

1888

Father died

1890

Went to San Francisco to California School of Design

1893

Returned to Victoria, December; taught children's art

1898

First Hitats'uu (Ucluelet) trip

Met Mayo Paddon on steamer returning home from Ucluelet

1899

Went to England, summer, entered Westminster School of Art

1900

Paddon in love with her, followed her to England to propose

1901

Rejected Paddon after much sexual ambivalence

1902

Studied in Cornwall and Hertfordshire

Ill in London, entered East Anglia Sanatorium

1904

Returned to Victoria, October, utterly defeated

Visited Cariboo en route home

1905

Second Hitats'uu (Ucluelet) trip

1906

Moved to Vancouver, January, feeling a commitment to grow in her art and independence

Met Sophie Frank

Hired and then fired by Vancouver Studio Club

Began teaching children's art

Discovered forest in Stanley Park

1907

Skagway and Sitka, Alaska trip with Alice, August.

First exposure to totems of such grandeur

1908

Alert Bay trip

1910

Left for Paris, enrolled in Academie Colarossi in July

1910-11

Ill in infirmary of Student Hostel

1911

Brittany, summer, instruction from Harry Phelan Gibb, then Frances Hodgkins

Exhibited in Société du Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris

Returned to Victoria, November

1912

Moved to Vancouver, opened West Broadway studio

Held show of new work

Summer trip to Vancouver Island (Kwakwaka'wakw villages),

Skeena River (Gitksan villages of the Tsimshian), and

Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida villages)

1913

Moved back to Victoria, mid-1913

Opened House of All Sorts, an apartment on Simcoe St.

1917-28

Painted little; bred sheep dogs, made pottery, and grew vegetables as income

1927

National Gallery of Canada and National Museum's Exhibition, "Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern," Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal

Met Lawren Harris and others of the Group of Seven

Women's International Exposition, Detroit

Art Association of Montreal Exhibition

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Exhibition

1928

Trip to Skeena River village of Kitwancool, Nass River villages, and Queen Charlotte Islands

1929

Began move away from Native subject matter

Resolved to express her own feelings about the forests

1930

Exhibited with the Group of Seven, Toronto, traveled to Toronto

Crystal Gardens, Victoria, one-person show and lecture, "Fresh Seeing"

Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (from this point, not a complete list of her exhibitions)

Seattle Art Museum, one-person show

1931

Sketching trip to Cordova Bay and Goldstream Flats

Baltimore Museum of Art

Sketching trip to Metchosin and Cedar Hill, spring

1932

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

1933

"Vanquished" on exhibit at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Purchased old caravan trailer, "The Elephant"

Sketching trip to Goldstream Flats, August-September

Unsuccessful attempt to start art gallery in Victoria

1934

Caravan sketching trip to Esquimalt Lagoon, May-June

Caravan at Metchosin Road, September

1936

Gave up House of All Sorts; moved to Beckley St.

University of Toronto, one-person show

1937

First heart attack; visited by critic Eric Newton

1938

Included in Tate Gallery exhibition, London

Spent more time writing

1939

Sophie Frank died

Vancouver Art Gallery, one-person show, November

Included in International Exposition, San Francisco

1940

Heart attack, March; stroke, May

Moved next door to Alice

Vancouver Art Gallery, one-person show, November

1941

Vancouver Art Gallery, October

Klee Wyck published

1942

Exhibition in Art Gallery of Toronto

Exhibition in National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Book of Small published

Lived in cottage at edge of Mt. Douglas Park to paint in woods

1943

Seattle Art Museum exhibit

Vancouver Art Gallery, one-person show, June

1944

A second stroke, confined in bed but painted and wrote

Dominion Gallery, Montreal, sold 57 of 60 paintings

House of All Sorts published

Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University

1945

Art Gallery of Toronto, one-person show

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, one-person show

Announcement that Emily Carr would receive honorary Doctor of Letters degree from University of British Columbia, February

Died March 2, St. Mary's Priory, Victoria