Emily Carr'sPGE Trip in 1933
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Transcript of Emily Carr'sPGE Trip in 1933
Emily Carr’sPacific Great Eastern Railway trip
in May/June 1933
Eric Andersen with Niki Madigan
Acknowledgements:
Thor Frøslev Dennis DebeckLesley KeithMark ArmstrongEllen Grant
Squamish Public LibraryPemberton Public Library
3 ½ weeks
May-June 1933
Victoria – Vancouver – Squamish
Brackendale
Lillooet and Fountain
Shalalth and Seton Portage
Pemberton Valley
Return to Victoria
Clara - mother of Lillian (Rae) & Emily (English), both of whom would live in Brackendale
Emily
Edith
Lizzie (“Betty”)
Alice
The Carr sisters, 1888
Lesley Keith collection
Squamish Valley School
Lawson Rae
Catherine & Hughie Mills’ home
Lawson Rae, 1930s
Claude Hartnell and Lawson Rae, 1930s
Orchard at either “Cottonwood” or Rae farm
Finch Drive, 1928
From top of Stawamus Chief,
ca 1932
Sophie Frank
Chil-lah-minst (Jimmy Frank)
19091906
1909
1909 1909
ca 1911-12
Squamish Mission Reserve, 1906
Sophie Frank
1914
Brackendale post office & general store
Lawren Harris
Vancouver Art Gallery 1946
Bess Housser
Varley Jackson Harris Fairley Johnston Lismer J.E.H. MacDonald
Emily Carr Charles H. Scott
W.P. Weston
J.W.G. (Jock) MacDonald
Letter from Bess Housser, Canadian Group of Painters secretary, to E. Carr c/o Brackendale Post Office, June 1933:
Lillooet W.S. Hatton 1864 Lillooet Carlo Gentille 1865
Port Pemberton Carlo Gentille 1865 Mashiter’s Landing 1894
Lucius Richard O’Brien
Thomas William Fripp
(1864-1931)
Cheakamus 1909
William Cornelius Van Horne
(1843-1915)
1925
1917
1920s
1941
1944
1946
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 1927I left home Tuesday night, November 8th. Called at the Vancouver Art School and met Mr. Varley. He was very pleasant, and took me home with him. His sketches most delightful, appealingly Canadian, a new delineation of a great country.
Emily Carr
Fred Varley
Vancouver 1927
Jock Macdonald
Above Squamish, 1927
The Cloud, Red Mountain
Red Rock and Snow
Sunrise, Sphinx Glacier
Mimulus, Mist and Snow
Dead Tree, Garibaldi
Garibaldi Reflections
Charles H. Scott
Seton Lake
1928
Bridge River Country
1928
“Group of Seven Display Their Annual Symbolisms”Toronto Daily Star, February 8, 1928
“Junk Clutters Art Gallery Walls While Real Paintings Are Hidden in Cellar: Serious Responsibility Accepted by Council of Toronto Art Gallery in Permitting Exhibition such as that Now on View”
Toronto Telegram
“‘Mess of Chili Sauce’ is description of one work of art”Toronto Telegram, 23 February 1928
Mountain Forms
Lawren Harris
1935
Abstraction 1939
St. Christopher's at Slosh
St. Mary's at Nkiat
St. Paul’s at Shalalth
Pemberton Hotel
Pemberton
Meadows
October 17th [1933]
“The Mountain” is finished, and the “Brackendale landscape” and
the “Tree with moving background” will be coffined tomorrow and
away. …
April 3rd [1937]
…An old Vancouver pupil took a Pemberton sketch, also for $15.
How lucky I am, or rather, how well taken care of!
September 9th [1937]
…Mr. Band…has ordered three canvases to be sent to Toronto, where
he thinks he can sell them. They are “Lillooet Indian Village” …
Tree with moving background
Brackendale landscape
