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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emily Carr has received more than 1,126,374 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Emily Carr is the 1,112th most popular painter (up from 1,278th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from Canada (up from 289th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Canadian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Emily Carr ranks 1,112 out of 1,421. Before her are Salomon Gessner, Francesco Granacci, Franciabigio, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, George Romney, and Oswaldo Guayasamín. After her are Eugène Boch, Richard Bergh, Lorenzo Lippi, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, James Rosenquist, and Alexandre Calame.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Emily Carr ranks 82. Before her are Camille Huysmans, Kōtoku Shūsui, Luigi Sturzo, Lottie Dod, Gyula Kellner, and John Millington Synge. After her are Arthur Griffith, Giuseppe Motta, Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, Ahatanhel Krymsky, Leonidas Pyrgos, and Kiyoshi Shiga. Among people deceased in 1945, Emily Carr ranks 195. Before her are Augustín Malár, Stamen Grigorov, Julius Leber, William Joseph Simmons, Antal Szerb, and Alfred Delp. After her are Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, Walter Hohmann, Wincenty Witos, Rolf Carls, Jerome Kern, and Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Emily Carr ranks 181 out of 1,350. Before her are Phil Esposito (1942), William H. McNeill (1917), Hubert Reeves (1932), Alan Thicke (1947), Maynard Ferguson (1928), and Ted Kotcheff (1931). After her are Sandra Oh (1971), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Ann Rutherford (1917), Jean Béliveau (1931), David Johnston (1941), and Oliver Platt (1960).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Emily Carr ranks 2. Before her are Maud Lewis (1903). After her are Jeff Wall (1946), Agnes Martin (1912), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), John McCrae (1872), Tom Thomson (1877), Rob Gonsalves (1959), and Maurice Prendergast (1858).

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