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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 1,206,758 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Emily Carr is the 1,123rd most popular painter (down from 1,111th in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Canada (up from 181st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Canadian Painter.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

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  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Emily Carr ranks 1,123 out of 2,023. Before her are Michiel Sweerts, Varvara Stepanova, Carl Moll, Félix Bracquemond, Wang Meng, and François-Auguste Biard. After her are Hans Bol, Gerrit Berckheyde, Ilya Kabakov, Rufino Tamayo, Gim Hongdo, and Antoine Coypel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Emily Carr ranks 77. Before her are Arthur Tansley, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Ivan Poddubny, Claus Schilling, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, and Hubert Cecil Booth. After her are Kōtoku Shūsui, Oscar Wisting, Martin Knudsen, Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro, Alexander Spendiaryan, and Leonidas Pyrgos. Among people deceased in 1945, Emily Carr ranks 201. Before her are Antal Szerb, Johannes Popitz, Jerome Kern, Rash Behari Bose, Adolf Bertram, and Carl Moll. After her are Karl Decker, Henri Maspero, Roberto Farinacci, Augustín Malár, Rolf Carls, and Yakov Protazanov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Emily Carr ranks 169 out of 1,622. Before her are Raymond Massey (1896), Jeff Wall (1946), Stephen Harper (1959), Joe Shuster (1914), Henry Czerny (1959), and James Doohan (1920). After her are Napoleon Sarony (1821), Alfred Aho (1941), Nelly Furtado (1978), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Ian Hacking (1936), and Anne Carson (1950).

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Among PAINTERS In Canada

Among painters born in Canada, Emily Carr ranks 3. Before her are Maud Lewis (1903), and Jeff Wall (1946). After her are Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923), Philip Guston (1913), Agnes Martin (1912), John McCrae (1872), Maurice Prendergast (1858), Tom Thomson (1877), and Rob Gonsalves (1959).

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