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Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

Emily Carr

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
Autobiographer
Painter
Writer
M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
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England
Baffled
Men
Learned
Starks
Struggle
Stark
Seeing
Schooled
Tightness
Understanding
Pierce
Outsides
White
Formal
Broadened
Art
Schools
Loosened
Reality
Indian
Bigness

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