Sold for: $23,750

PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Victoria
Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 5, 1998, lot 81
Private Collection
Acquired as a gift from the above by the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Emily Carr, Growing Pains, The Complete Writings of Emily Carr, 1997, page 424
Doris Shadbolt, The Art of Emily Carr, 1987, pages 26 and 28

EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Annual Emily Carr Exhibition, 1993, 1994 and 1995

While living in Vancouver from 1906 to 1910, Emily Carr taught art classes, often taking her students outside to capture their surroundings. Doris Shadbolt states that Carr's paintings from this period were "mainly small in scale" watercolours. Carr's subject matter was often the area near her studio at 570 Granville Street. In her autobiography Growing Pains, Carr remarks that "we sat on beaches over which great docks and stations are now built, we clambered up and down wooded banks solid now with Vancouver's commercial buildings." This watercolour of the historic Canadian Pacific Railway Station is likely the result of one of those treks. The station was designed by Edward Maxwell in the railway's early Chateau style, and it stood at the foot of Granville Street. Carr's accomplished watercolour is a fine record of this distinguished building with its striking turrets, which was demolished in 1914 and replaced by Waterfront Station.

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