Iconic artist Emily Carr surrounded herself with animals.
Canadian painter Emily Carr loved animals. She lived with them. She painted them. She took them camping and she famously pushed them around Victoria in an old pram.In his new book, Woo, the Monkey who Inspired Emily Carr, biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies looks through the contemporary lens of the issue of captive wild animals to understand the relationship between the small primate and iconic painter.
Q: Woo got sent to the Stanley Park Zoo when Carr experienced heart problems. Did no one else want the monkey? A: Any number of factors could contribute to this, but consider: Woo had lived in a house, with a human mother, with animal companions; worn clothes to keep warm; had a rich and exciting life with an artist who took her on camping trips into the woods. Her exposure to the public was relatively narrow. Now she was in a cage at a zoo.
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