Graphic Art of the Eskimos Book

Emily Carr (1871-1945) gave her biographers an easy task: she eloquently chronicled her own life in her own books, in lively detail. Pause: A Sketch Book, came out after her death and is the record of an unusual period beginning in 1902. Carr, a 30-year-old student at London's Westminster School of Art, was sent by a Harley Street doctor to recover from exhaustion at the Sunhill Sanatorium in Suffolk. During her 18 months in the San, she made friends with patients and staff alike, raised baby birds in her hospital room and made many fine pencil sketches of the people, birds and animals she encountered. Carr was a very social creature and had a special way with humans and all living beings. Her little vignettes are full of memorable descriptions, including this one, of "an abnormally clerical parson, with a collar like a retaining wall."