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Emily Carr (1871-1945)born in Victoria, British Columbia, is one of Canada's most renowned artists, significant as a landscape painter and a modernist. The most important BC artist of her generation, she is best known for her attention to the totemic sculptures of the First Nations people of British Columbia and the rain forests of Vancouver Island.Carr's work was first brought to the wider Canadian art public when it was represented in the 1927 exhibition Canadian West Coast Art, Native and Modern. Through this exhibition she was introduced to the work of the Group of Seven and formed an important friendship with Lawren Harris who influenced her work significantly.The Vancouver Art Gallery's Emily Carr Trust Collection constitutes the most significant holding of works by Carr in the world. This collection, which was selected by her friend and artistic trustee, Lawren Harris, has been supplemented by purchases and gifts to the Gallery and now includes more than 200 objects covering the period c. 1890 to 1942. Some highlights of the collection are Zunoqua of the Cat Village, 1931, Big Raven, 1931, and Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky, 1935.