Emily Carr, Emily Carr is one of Canada's greatest and most loved artists. She is highly regarded throughout the world and considered a national icon in Canada. When her parents died during her early teens, Emily escaped her oldest sister's strict rule by leaving to study Art in San Francisco. She later studied in Paris and London. Emily Carr was a warm, independent, strong, modest, and extremely creative Canadian woman. She brought Canadian art to a new height, bonded with the First Nations people of British Columbia. As an example of her writings: "It is hard to remember just when you first became aware of being alive. It is like looking through rain onto a bald, new land; as you watch, the brown is all pricked with pale green. You did not see the points pierce, did not hear the stab-there they are!" The Book Of Small by Emily Carr. Return