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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">New year, new Carr: Last chance for
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">VICTORIA, BC</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">—The
Jan. 24 closing date looms and travel restrictions are still in place, but thanks to a timely new
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/watch/"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;color:blue">online tour</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
there’s no reason for anyone to miss the Royal BC Museum’s illuminating feature exhibition,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/visit/exhibitions/emily-carr-fresh-seeing-french-modernism-and-west-coast"><i><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;color:blue">Emily
Carr: Fresh Seeing—French Modernism and the West Coast</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">At a cost of just $5 (or included with museum admission), the 35-minute virtual tour features co-curators Kiriko
Watanabe (Audain Art Museum</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator) and Dr. Kathryn Bridge (Royal BC Museum</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Curator Emerita) sharing exhibition highlights, personal reflections and behind-the-scenes experiences.
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captures the moment Emily Carr revolutionized her painting style after returning from a 16-month trip to France in 1911. Says Bridge: “Without her time in France, Emily Carr would never have become the great artist we know today.”
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">For those who are able to visit in person, there is the rare opportunity to dig deeper into Carr’s artistic repertoire via a small bonus exhibition curated
from the Royal BC Museum’s own collections. Though the Royal BC Museum has the world’s largest collection of Carr works and archival materials, they are not often on public display.
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Everyday Emily Carr</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> features 22 examples
of Carr’s portraiture ranging from comic sketches to small watercolours, and offers a deeper and more complete picture of Carr as a person as well as an artist.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Also included is
<i>Chinese Boy</i>, the Royal BC Museum’s newest Carr acquisition. Purchased at auction in 2019, the painting—which can be seen in the virtual tour as well—presents a sober portrait unique to the artist’s oeuvre. The young boy, dressed in a collarless jacket
with black piping at the neck and sleeves, wears his hair in a distinctive queue and looks upon the viewer as closely as Carr must have been observing him.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">The painting is from the period 1906 to 1910, when Carr was living in Vancouver, BC. During this period she created
her only other known representations of Chinese settler life, which are all housed in the Emily Carr Art Collection at the BC Archives.
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<a href="http://www.rbcm.ca/emily"><span style="color:blue">www.rbcm.ca/emily</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">is organized by the
<a name="_Hlk60900818">Audain Art Museum </a>in Whistler, BC. It is presented with the support of Major Sponsor Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Sponsor Black & MacDonald, financial assistance from the Government of Canada through the Museum Assistance Program,
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</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 45 Light",sans-serif">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of BC, and provides a dynamic forum for discussion
and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations), we
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