Klee Wyck

This short documentary from the Canadian Artists series presents the art of Emily Carr the Canadian painter who found exciting subject matter on British Columbias Pacific Coast with its giant trees and its Indigenous villages totems and carvings When Carr visited the Ucluelet Indian Reserve on Vancouver Island in 1898 the Nuuchahnulth people gave her the name Klee Wyck meaning Laughing One Her canvases are shown here amidst the landscapes and places where they were painted