PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
Acquired directly from the above by Dominion Gallery, Montreal, January 17, 1945, inventory #294e
Acquired from the above by a Private Collection, Vancouver, May 23, 1947
By descent to a Private Collection, Vancouver
Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 17, 2012, lot 131
An Important Private Canadian Collection

LITERATURE
Doris Shadbolt, Emily Carr: A Centennial Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1975, revised edition, reproduced page 66, the smaller circa 1908 watercolour reproduced page 66, and the related 1912 oil Indian War Canoe (Alert Bay) and 1912 canvas War Canoes, Alert Bay reproduced page 71
Doris Shadbolt, The Art of Emily Carr, 1979, reproduced page 41, plate 16, and the related 1912 canvas War Canoes, Alert Bay reproduced page 41, plate 17
Doris Shadbolt, Emily Carr, National Gallery of Canada, 1990, listed in "Works in the Exhibition," unpaginated addendum
Susan Crean, editor, Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings, 2003, page 177
Emily Carr, Growing Pains, 2005, page 257
Gerta Moray, Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr, 2006, pages 80, 81, 85 and 146, the smaller circa 1908 watercolour reproduced page 88 and the related 1912 canvas reproduced page 149

EXHIBITED
Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr: A Centennial Exhibition, May 18 - August 29, 1971, traveling in 1971 - 1972 to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, catalogue #10
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Emily Carr, June 29 - September 3, 1990, catalogue #5

Literature continued:

Ian Thom and Grant Arnold, editors, Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2011, the related 1912 canvas reproduced front cover and page 35

From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2014, reproduced page 152 and listed page 296, the related 1912 canvas reproduced page 153, listed page 296

Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing—French Modernism and the West Coast, Audain Art Museum, 2019, reproduced page 6 (detail) and page 80, listed page 148, and the related 1912 canvas reproduced page 7 (detail) and page 81, listed page 149

Exhibited continued:

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, November 1, 2014 - March 15, 2015, traveling to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 11 - August 9, 2015

Audain Art Museum, Whistler, Emily Carr: Fresh Seeing—French Modernism and the West Coast, September 21, 2019 - January 19, 2020, traveling in 2020 - 2021 to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, and the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, catalogue #80 and the related 1912 canvas catalogue #81

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All prices are in Canadian Dollars