How did modern art appear on the Canadian West Coast? Much of the credit goes to the artist Emily Carr, who boldly challenged traditional painting in the early-20th century. When she was 27, Carr made her first trip to an Aboriginal village, where she made sketches of their customs. She would go on to create singularly powerful, somewhat surreal depictions of Canada’s forests, painted in swooping swaths of dark, earthy color—deep greens and turbulent blues. The 100 works in this show explore Carr’s relationship with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest. —Elena Clavarino