Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

A very pleasant place - currently there is a small show of Sybil Andrews, linocut maker taught by Cyril Power and Claude Flight. In the 1940s she and her husband moved to the logging/fishing town of Campbell River, Vancouver Island, and in the 50s, having renovated their house as a guest house, she started making art again, using local subjects. "Western Red Cedar" impressed me - and made me think of how similar the linocut lines in the background are to quilting lines. See the whole image here, amid the gallery's excellent documentation. The Emily Carr exhibition at the gallery runs till 2013. As I'm sorting the Schleicher family photos, it was interesting to find that Emily had an artist friend named Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher. Edythe was Emily's only sketching partner, wrote two books about her (M.E. A Portrait of Emily Carr (Toronto: Clark Irwin, 1969) and Emily Carr The Untold Story (Hancock Publishers, 1978)). Along with Mark Tobey and Lawren Harris, Edythe promoted Emily's work and rediscovery in the late 1920s and 1930s.