""I think Carr is a remarkable Modernist landscape painter who has been largely overlooked in the wider history of Modernism," Hill says. "Her intense commitment to art, despite sexist assumptions about her potential as a woman artist and her geographic isolation from the mainstream art world, are a story I think many people would find fascinating if given a chance to hear it and see the work.""
"Carr "was both a careful observer and someone who sought spiritual transcendence in communion with nature", according to a press statement. The artist once termed it "that green ideal", which has inspired the show's title. Carr often wrote about this process in her journals, excerpts of which will be featured in the exhibition. A photography of Emily Carr in Her Studio in 1939 by Harold Mortimer-Lamb Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft"
A sweeping exhibition titled That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery, featuring primarily the museum's comprehensive holdings of Carr's work. The show draws on a prior small exhibition curated by Richard Hill that examined spatial metaphor in Carr's landscapes. Carr is presented as a Modernist landscape painter who combined careful observation with spiritual transcendence in communion with nature, a principle she called "that green ideal." The exhibition includes journal excerpts, a 1939 studio photograph, and works reflecting her post‑Impressionist training and Fauvist‑inspired palette developed after studies in San Francisco, London and France and a 1912 sketching trip to Haida Gwaii.
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