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November Book: The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland

November 10, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Book Group Discussion Thursday, November 10th, 12-1 pm at the Josephy Center

 

“The Forest Lover,” a fictional biography of Canadian artist Emily Carr. The author is Susan Vreeland, who also wrote The Girl in Hyacinth Blue. We will meet in person at the Josephy Center at noon on Thursday, November 10th at noon. We chose the book to go along with Joan Gilbert’s one-woman show, “55 x 55,” which stays up until November 12.

The story of Emily Carr’s troubled career as an artist is a long and sometimes tedious journey.. National acclaim waited until Emily was in her 50s, waited while she overcame being just a good “woman artist,” waited until Native themes were ok in polite Canadian society.

In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who, more than Georgia O’Keeffe or Frida Kahlo, blazed a path for modern women artists.

Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art by capturing an untamed British Columbia and its indigenous peoples just before industrialization changed them forever. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to artists studios in pre World War I Paris, Vreeland tells her story with gusto and suspense, giving us a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction.

Emily Carr; Vanquished; 1930

Details

Date:
November 10, 2022
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Organizer

Cheryl Coughlan
Phone
541-432-0505
Email
director@josephy.org

Venue

Josephy Center for Arts & Culture
403 N Main St
Joseph, OR 97846 United States
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