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About this work
This painting captures one of the great totem poles of Haida Gwaii, a monumental work of First Nations art rising from the landscape of the Skidigate village. Carr's composition places the eagle figure frontally, commanding the viewer's gaze with the kind of formal authority these poles embody—yet she renders it through her characteristic intensity of colour and movement. The totem emerges from a deep forest setting rendered in the bold, expressive palette she adopted after her time in Paris: rich greens and blues vibrate against warmer earth tones, while the sky above pulses with the same emotional energy as the pole itself. This is not documentation; it is Carr's visceral encounter with a sacred object, translated into the language of modernism.
By the 1930s, when Carr was painting works like this one, she had fully synthesized her influences—the Post-Impressionist vigour of the Fauves, the structural confidence of her mentor Harry Phelan Gibb, and her deep study of First Nations visual culture. The totem poles of British Columbia's abandoned villages had become her central obsession, a way of exploring both the spiritual power of Indigenous art and the raw majesty of the West Coast landscape. These paintings answered to no European or eastern Canadian convention; they were entirely her own.
This print belongs in a room with northern light, where its restless colour continues to glow. It speaks to collectors who understand that modernism on the Canadian West Coast meant something radically different—not a rejection of place, but an embrace of it.
About Emily Carr
Few painters have wrestled the spirit of a landscape onto canvas the way this British Columbian modernist did with the rainforests and Indigenous villages of Canada's Pacific coast. Trained in San Francisco, London, and Paris in the early 1900s, she returned home and developed a swirling, sculptural approach to trees and sky that owed something to the Group of Seven but answered to nobody. Her later forest paintings from the 1930s feel almost alive, with green light moving through them like weather. For contemporary viewers, her work offers a way of looking at the natural world that is reverent without being sentimental.
