Sold for: $3,393,000

PROVENANCE
W.H. and Irene Clark, Toronto (Emily Carr's publisher)
H.R. MacMillan, Vancouver
A gift from H.R. MacMillan to The Vancouver Club

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Emily Carr, June 29 - September 3, 1990, catalogue #95
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon, June 2 - September 4, 2006, traveling in 2006 - 2008 to the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, catalogue #97

Literature:

Doris Shadbolt, Emily Carr, 1990, page 135, titled as The Crooked Staircase (Mimquimlees), reproduced page 134, and related works: the circa 1908 – 1909 watercolour entitled Communal House (Mimquimlees), in the collection of the BC Archives, PDP 920, reproduced page 132; the circa 1912 watercolour, Untitled (Welcome Figure, Mimquimlees), reproduced page 133; and the 1912 watercolour entitled Cedar House Staircase and Sunburst (Mimquimlees), in the collection of the BC Archives, PDP 2810, reproduced page 96

Doris Shadbolt, Seven Journeys: The Sketchbooks of Emily Carr, 2002, the related graphite drawings Figure at Mimquimlees, circa 1928, in the collection of the BC Archives, PDP 08894, reproduced page 47 and Stylized Drawing of a Totem Pole, 1929 ~ 1930, in the collection of the BC Archives, PDP 08766, reproduced page 37

Charles C. Hill, Joanne Lamoureux, Ian M. Thom et al., Emily Carr: New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon, National Gallery of Canada, 2006, titled as The Crooked Staircase, reproduced page 179, image #132, and the related 1912 oil on paperboard entitled Indian Community House, in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (66.834) reproduced page 79, image #48, catalogue #145 and the circa 1912 oil on canvas Memalilaqua, Knight’s Inlet, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, page 149, image #111, catalogue #39

Gerta Moray, Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr, 2006, page 291, related works: the circa 1908 ~ 1909 watercolour entitled Communal House (Mimquimlees), in the collection of the BC Archives, PDP 920, reproduced page 216, catalogue #54; the circa 1912 watercolour, Untitled (Welcome Figure, Mimquimlees), reproduced page 129, catalogue #9.11 and the circa 1912 oil on canvas Memalilaqua, Knight’s Inlet, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, reproduced page 229, catalogue #62



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