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Great Canadians
Indian Church
Emily Carr · 1947–1953
- Medium
- Oil silkscreen on board
- Signature
- A.J. Casson
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Selected: 40″ × 50″, approx. 20 lbs · Made to order — ships in 6 weeks
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About this work
Carr’s “Indian Church” (aka “White Church”) is one of the most iconic and treasured paintings in the history of Canadian art. The original painting from 1929, which hangs in the Art Gallery of Ontario, traveled to several international exhibitions between 1930 and 1970, including the Tate Gallery in London in 1938. This work, which captures the spirituality of Canada’s landscape in a manner that was particularly modern when it was painted, has often been discussed as Carr’s embrace of theosophical concepts of God in Nature. It is based on sketches she created in Yuquot in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, home of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth people and site of the first contact between English explorers and the British Columbia First Nations. First printed in 1947, the Sampson-Matthews silkscreen is a reproduction of the original painting and was first produced two years after Carr’s death under the direct supervision of A.J. Casson.