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VIDEO: Emily Carr paintings en route from Victoria to London

Carr's works will be leaving the Royal B.C. Museum temporarily to a fall exhibit in England.
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A statue of famous Canadian painter Emily Carr


By Dirk Meissner, The Canadian Press

VICTORIA - Emily Carr's brooding, post-impressionistic paintings of West Coast aboriginal villages and British Columbia's dark rain forests will soon appear in the same English art gallery that holds collections by masters like Rembrandt, Gainsborough and Rubens.

London's Dulwich Picture Gallery, founded in 1811, is staging a six-month Carr exhibit called From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia. It runs from Nov. 1 to March 8.

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