[7] Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris bought the painting to showcase it in his dining room,[7] and called it Carr's best work.

The exhibition was described by Vincent Massey as "a most representative showing of Canadian painting and sculpture, including all schools and all periods.

[7] The Indian Church is one of Carr's most reproduced works,[4] and was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario by Charles Band upon his 1969 death.

She also added an element of danger in the form of wavy dark green undergrowth erupting in front of the church.

[3] Lewis Desoto describes the painting as "a simplified white church which is dwarfed by the sculptural forms of the surrounding forest.

Baldissera also comments that "[t]he building's windowless walls and reduced features create another "marker," suggesting a structure that is both monolithic and uninhabitable.

Davis remarks "The flat front of the building and the geometric crispness of its shape contrast markedly with the organic volume of the tree boughs and the shallow recession into the forest.

A small Christian church is set amidst an enormous forest, slightly cubist in form, which obscures the sky.

The foliage forms a subtle totem-like facial profile nudging the right side of the steeple, suggesting Carr's transitional religious frame of mind and her mission to unite God and nature.

"[12] In 2018, 73 years after Carr's death, the Art Gallery of Ontario retitled the painting to Church at Yuquot Village due to the negative connotations of the term "Indian.

They developed a curatorial approach to "open up a conversation about colonial history," working to remove "hurtful and painful" terminology "on a case-by-case basis.