Zunoqua of the Cat Village by Emily Carr 1931
by Emily Carr
Title
Zunoqua of the Cat Village by Emily Carr 1931
Artist
Emily Carr
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
Zunoqua of the Cat Village by Emily Carr 1931
Zunoqua of the Cat Village was one of Carr's early conceptual works. Only the cat's eyes and partial faces can be seen in the sea of foliage. The totem figure is gazing to the left instead of directly toward the viewer. The colors are muted.
Zunoqua (also spelled Dzunukwa and D'Sonoqua) was a mythical person considered to be the wild woman of the woods. She is represented by the totemic figure on the left side of the painting.
Carr, a single solitary figure for most of her life, seemed to relate to Zunoqua.
Emily Carr was a west coast Canadian artist whose paintings were inspired by nature, her own spiritual beliefs and the indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest coast.
Carr was formally trained as a classical painter in San Francisco and as an Impressionist painter in France in 1910.
Working alone in Victoria, British Columbia her work received little attention until 1927. That year, her work was included with paintings from the famous Group of Seven artists in an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Canada.
The watermark in the lower right hand corner of the picture does not appear on the final print.
Please check out my large collection of Emily Carr paintings.
Prints are produced on acid-free paper using archival inks to guarantee they last a lifetime without fading or loss of contrast, color or tone.
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