Emily Carr, a B.C. artist whose work was inspired by the natives of the Pacific Northwest, is being honoured with a Google doodle depicting one of her iconic works.

Carr was born 142 years ago on Dec. 13, 1871.

As a writer, Carr also chronicled daily life in the province of her birth. As an artist, her earliest works focused on the lives of aboriginal Canadians before she turned to landscape painting, particularly of forests, using styles associated with impressionism and post-expressionism.

Her work has been compared to Canada’s most famous group of modern painters, the Group of Seven. During an exhibition of her in 1927 at the National Gallery, Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris declared: “She is one of us.”

A sign of Carr’s enduring appeal came last month when one of her works, The Crazy Stair a.k.a. The Crooked Staircase — painted around 1930 — sold at a Toronto auction for $2.9 million.

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