![]() ![]() She had mastered the techniques of “conservative painting” in her previous schools, but they were a poor match for her subject matter – the dense, dark, dripping forests of the Pacific Northwest, its mountains and seascapes, and the settlements (some populated, some abandoned) of the native peoples with their haunting totem poles.Įmily and Alice found lodgings on rue Campagne Premiere in Montparnasse and Emily attended classes at the Académie Colarossi, rue de la Grande Chaumière. Something in it stirred me… I saw at once that it made recent conservative painting look flavourless, little, unconvincing. I heard it ridiculed, praised, liked, hated. … I wanted now to find out what this “New Art” was about. ![]() I did not know French and would not learn. My sister knew French but would not talk. She was 38 years old and had previously studied art in San Francisco and London. Here is her picture of the travelling party.Įmily Carr came to Paris in the autumn of 1910, after making the long journey from Canada’s West Coast. She had purchased Rebecca in Liverpool, where the ship from Canada had docked, and brought the disagreeable bird the rest of the way by train. She arrived in Paris with her trunks, her sister Alice, and a malevolent grey parrot called Rebecca. ![]()
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