Emily Carr Chronology

Emily's sister Edith (Dede) born

Emily's sister Clara born

Emily's sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) born

Emily's sister Alice born

Emily born December 13

Mother died

Father died

Went to San Francisco to California School of Design

Returned to Victoria, December; taught children's art

First Hitats'uu (Ucluelet) trip

Met Mayo Paddon on steamer returning home from Ucluelet

Went to England, summer, entered Westminster School of Art

Paddon in love with her, followed her to England to propose

Rejected Paddon after much sexual ambivalence

Studied in Cornwall and Hertfordshire

Ill in London, entered East Anglia Sanatorium

Returned to Victoria, October, utterly defeated

Visited Cariboo en route home

Second Hitats'uu (Ucluelet) trip

Moved to Vancouver, January, feeling a commitment to grow in her art and independence

Met Sophie Frank

Hired and then fired by Vancouver Studio Club

Began teaching children's art

Discovered forest in Stanley Park

Skagway and Sitka, Alaska trip with Alice, August.

First exposure to totems of such grandeur

Alert Bay trip

Left for Paris, enrolled in Academie Colarossi in July

Ill in infirmary of Student Hostel

Brittany, summer, instruction from Harry Phelan Gibb, then Frances Hodgkins

Exhibited in Société du Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris

Returned to Victoria, November

Moved to Vancouver, opened West Broadway studio

Held show of new work

Summer trip to Vancouver Island (Kwakwaka'wakw villages),

Skeena River (Gitksan villages of the Tsimshian), and

Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida villages)

Moved back to Victoria, mid-1913

Opened House of All Sorts, an apartment on Simcoe St.

Painted little; bred sheep dogs, made pottery, and grew vegetables as income

National Gallery of Canada and National Museum's Exhibition, "Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern," Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal

Met Lawren Harris and others of the Group of Seven

Women's International Exposition, Detroit

Art Association of Montreal Exhibition

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Exhibition

Trip to Skeena River village of Kitwancool, Nass River villages, and Queen Charlotte Islands

Began move away from Native subject matter

Resolved to express her own feelings about the forests

Exhibited with the Group of Seven, Toronto, traveled to Toronto

Crystal Gardens, Victoria, one-person show and lecture, "Fresh Seeing"

Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (from this point, not a complete list of her exhibitions)

Seattle Art Museum, one-person show

Sketching trip to Cordova Bay and Goldstream Flats

Baltimore Museum of Art

Sketching trip to Metchosin and Cedar Hill, spring

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

"Vanquished" on exhibit at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Purchased old caravan trailer, "The Elephant"

Sketching trip to Goldstream Flats, August-September

Unsuccessful attempt to start art gallery in Victoria

Caravan sketching trip to Esquimalt Lagoon, May-June

Caravan at Metchosin Road, September

Gave up House of All Sorts; moved to Beckley St.

University of Toronto, one-person show

First heart attack; visited by critic Eric Newton

Included in Tate Gallery exhibition, London

Spent more time writing

Sophie Frank died

Vancouver Art Gallery, one-person show, November

Included in International Exposition, San Francisco

Heart attack, March; stroke, May

Moved next door to Alice

Vancouver Art Gallery, one-person show, November

Vancouver Art Gallery, October

Klee Wyck published

Exhibition in Art Gallery of Toronto

Exhibition in National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Book of Small published

Lived in cottage at edge of Mt. Douglas Park to paint in woods

Seattle Art Museum exhibit

Vancouver Art Gallery, one-person show, June

A second stroke, confined in bed but painted and wrote

Dominion Gallery, Montreal, sold 57 of 60 paintings

House of All Sorts published

Gallery of Fine Arts, Yale University

Art Gallery of Toronto, one-person show

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, one-person show

Announcement that Emily Carr would receive honorary Doctor of Letters degree from University of British Columbia, February

Died March 2, St. Mary's Priory, Victoria