Odds and Ends - Emily Carr (1939)

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Over this period, Carr had a growing concern over the deforestation which was occurring on the West Coast, and paralleled the earlier encroachments and destruction by Europeans of the First Nations cultures.

Odds and Ends (1939) is another of her most important paintings, not just from this period, but from her whole career. It shows the young and very high trees which were left behind as being of no commercial value after felling. Carr described the low stubs left on the stumps as being the trees’ tombstones.