Attributed to Emily Carr, no coa, private collection, medium: oil measurements: 22"WX26"H framed, good condition Biography: Emily Carr was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Carr's mother died in 1886, and her father died in 1888.[17] Her oldest sister Edith Carr became the guardian of the rest of the children.Carr's father encouraged her artistic inclinations, but it was only in 1890, after her parents' deaths, that Carr pursued her art seriously. She studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco for three years (1890–1893) before returning to Victoria. In 1899, Carr visited Ucluelet on the west coast of Vancouver Island. That same year, Carr traveled to London, where she decided to transform herself into a professional artist and to make it her life's calling.She began her studies at the Westminster School of Art.She then took art classes from John William Whiteley in Bushey, Hertfordshire and afterwards traveled to an art colony in St Ives, Cornwall, studying with Julius Olsson and Algernon Talmage (1901). In 1902, she returned to Bushey, and studied with Whiteley, till she experienced a nervous breakdown and had to convalesce.