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Artist : M. EMILY CARR ~ [1871-1945] Canadian Title : Untitled - Coastal Mountains, Inside Passage Media : watercolour on paper 5 x 7 in. / 13 x 18 cm. Notes: unsigned; bears name verso; framed; letter of authentication from Kerry Mason, Canadian Art Historian at the University of Victoria and former Curator, Emily Carr Gallery, Provincial Archives of B.C. Victoria, included with lot Reference: This is a rare example of the watercolour sketches which Emily Carr created in the early period of her career. Although this work is undated, evidence supports 1907, the only year in which she travelled from Seattle to Alaska through the Inside Passage. It was a pivotal journey for the exposure to various First Nations' villages stimulated her commitment to document all she could of Northwest Coast cultures. The landscape of British Columbia and Alaska captivated her on this trip, and Carr filled several sketch books. Other watercolours created on this summer boat trip up the Coast of British Columbia are in the .B.C.M. Carr collection, and have been exhibited extensively and reproduced in many publications. The brushwork, palette and paper, as well as artistic choices of perspective and composition in this work, are very similar to Skagway, 1907 in the exhibition Emily Carr: New Perspectives, currently at the Glenbow Art Museum in Calgary. Stylistically and technically Coastal Mountains, Inside Passage belongs with the well known watercolour sketches of the 1907-1909 era in the Emily Carr collection in the [R.B.C.M.], the Vancouver Art Gallery, as well as private collections. At this point in her career Carr had received traditional academy based instruction in both San Francisco [1890-93] and England [1899-1904]. The watercolours of 1907 are representational and in keeping with her training to this point. In 1910 Emily Carr travelled to Paris where she embraced the Post Impressionist style and technique. Her work from 1912 onwards departs radically from the watercolour sketches of 1907-1909, however some of the wat rcolours created on Carr's 1912 trip to Haida Gwaii and the Skeena River contain the very blues used in the 1907-1909 sketches on the Coast. Nevertheless, the style and subject matter confirm that Coastal Mountains, Inside Passage was created prior to the crucial trip to France.* Provenance: private collection, British Columbia ESTIMATE: