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Artist : M. EMILY CARR ~ [1871-1945] Canadian Title : Olympian Range from Beacon Hill, Victoria, BC Media : watercolour on paper 2.25 x 8.25 in. / 6 x 21 cm. Dated: 1895 ca. Notes: signed 'E.M. Carr' on backing; bears title on backing; laid down on paper board;framed Reference: This is a rare example of the watercolour sketches which Emily Carr created in the early period of her career. Olympian Range from Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C. is from one of her early sketch books, drawn prior to her studies in England [1899-1904]. There are only four known similar sketchbooks in the B.C. Archives and private collections. Emily Carr: A Centennial Exhibition by D.Shadbolt contains 2 comparable sketches from Emily Carr's circa1895 sketchbooks in the Koerner Collection. Evidence supports the dating of this watercolour at circa 1895. Stylistically it belongs with the well known pen and ink sketches in the Emily Carr collection in the R.B.C.M., two of which are entitled: James Bay Bridge [circa 1894-95] and Rock Bay B idge,1895. There is textual evidence that Emily Carr produced, exhibited, and was in fact awarded prizes of distinction for her pen and ink drawings in Victoria in 1894 and 1895. It is also well documented that Carr regularly worked in watercolour at this time. Extant work of this period is very similar to Olympian Range from Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C. The brush work and palette are distinctly early Emily Carr technique and the location is one of her favourites. Beacon Hill is adjacent to the original Carr acreage and was fondly considered an extension of her home as a child. Between 1913 and 1936 when she built and lived in her tri-plex, now known as The House of All Sorts. The location of Olympian Range from Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C. is a view which Carr enjoyed from her attic window and painted in several media throughout her long and prolific career. While a 1909 landscape of this area is in the Carr collection of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria [illustrated in The Art of Emily Carr , by D.Shadbolt pg.29], Olympian Range from Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C. is the earliest known Beacon Hill Park watercolour. [*with thanks to Kerry Mason, Canadian Art Historian at the University of Victoria and former Curator, Emily Carr Gallery, Provincial Archives of B.C. Victoria for the help in cataloguing of these three Emily Carr entries] Provenance: ex-collection Edythe M. Hembroff-Schleicher; private collection, Victoria ESTIMATE: