growing pains the autobiography of emily carr

Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white.

This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint.

NO changes have been made to the original text. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. The Chapters are: Baptism Mother Drawing and Insubordination Graduation Reasons The Outdoor Sketch Class Nellie and the Lily Field Difference Between Nude and Naked Beany Evil The Roarats Gladness Colour-Sense Sisters Coming - Sisters Going Last Chance Mrs Tucket Telegraph Hill The Mansion Back to Canada Home Again Love and Poetry The Voyage and Aunt Amelia Aunt Amerlia's PG House St Paul's Letters of Introduction Westminster Abbey - Architectural Museums Life Class Mrs Radcliffe Mrs Simpson's Leaving Miss Green's - Vincent Square Pain and Mrs Radcliffe - The Vicarage Kicking the Regent Street Shoe-man Are You Saved Queen Victoria English Spring My Sister's Visit Martyn The Radcliffes' Art and District Visiting London Tasted The Other Side of Life St Ives Bushey Birds Bitter Goodbye Cariboo Gold Vancouver France Rejected New York Lawren Harris Green Alternative Seventieth Birthday and A Kiss for Canada The Book of Small and Wild Geese. The cover features Sunshine and Tumult by Emily Carr. This is actually an un-read copy, acquired from the publisher when they decided to sell off all the saved copies of their back-list mostly, there were only one or two copies of each title, retained by the company for reference purposes. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine no interior markings. First Thus - first appearance in this format. It is like looking through rain onto a bald, new lawn as you watch, the brown is all pricked with pale green.Soft cover. “It is hard to remember just when you first became aware of being alive. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” “I think that one's art is a growth inside one. “If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good, or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.” She was an unpopular teacher at the Ladies Art Club in Vancouver because she smoked and cursed at the students, leading them to boycott her classes. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute and the Westminster School of Art.

She began painting her most famous works when she was in her late 50s.She was raised Presbyterian and was required to give a sermon to her family each week, something she never quite mastered. Her family was very British, and her father insisted on upholding the English customs and traditions.She was the second-youngest of nine siblings born to Richard and Emily Carr in British Columbia.She met fellow female artist Georgia O'Keeffe in 1930.

Growing pains the autobiography of emily carr