Dorothy Knowles: A Canadian Landscape Legend

1927 Born in Unity, Saskatchewan, Canada

1951 Married artist William Perehudoff in Paris on December 27th

EDUCATION

1944 Graduated from City Park Collegiate in Saskatoon

1948 Bachelor of Arts, Type C, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

1949 Enrolled in Medical Technology classes at the University of Saskatchewan

and apprenticed in St. Paul’s Hospital becoming a Registered Technologist and a member

of the Canadian Society of Laboratory Technologists

1948 Emma Lake Summer School with Reta Cowley, James Frederick Finley

1949 Banff Summer Session in Painting

1949 Painting classes with N. Bjelejac, U of S

1950-52,54 Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, & Silkscreen classes with E. Bornstein, U of S

1951 Goldsmith School of Art, London, England

1956 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Joseph Plaskett

1957 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Will Barnett

1962 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Clement Greenberg

1963 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Kenneth Noland

1964 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Jules Olitski

1965 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Lawrence Alloway

1969 Emma Lake Artist’s Workshop led by Michael Steiner

SOLO SHOWS

2015 Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, An exhibition of watercolours by landscape artist

Dorothy Knowles. Dec. 2015

2015 Art Placement inc, Saskatoon The Oils 1965-2006

2014 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton AB, Dorothy Knowles’ Canadian Landscapes

2012 Art Placement, Refined Observation, Saskatoon, SK

2011 Han Art, Montreal, PQ, Woven Beauty, catalogue text by Dr. Roald Nasgaard & Terry Fenton

2011 Art Placement inc, Saskatoon, Sky Above, Earth Below

2011 OSAC Exhibit, organized by the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, April 2011-April 2013,

watercolour exhibit traveling to 24 Saskatchewan communities

2008-10 Travelling show: Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, SK, Dorothy Knowles, Landmarks

June 20 – Sept. 7, 2008, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current, SK

Feb.21 – Mar. 29, 2009,Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK,

June 19 –Sept.13, 2009, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB, Dec 27/09-Feb. 14/10

McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON, May 22-Aug 15/10,

Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK, Nov. 1/10-Jan 30/11

2010 Miriam Shiell Fine Art Ltd., Dorothy Knowles, A Survey of Work from 1960 – Present,

June 5-19

2009 Miriam Shiell Fine Art Ltd., A Sense of Place :New Paintings, catalogue essay by Roald

Nasgaard, April 25-May 23

2008 Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Permanent collection exhibition, May 3-Sept.1

2008 Art Placement, Small Scale Works 1960s -1990s,Saskatoon, SK

2008 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, April26- May 9

2007 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB. Feb. 1-17

2006 Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, ON

2003 Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, ON

2003 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK

2001 MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK

2000 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB/Vancouver, BC, 25th Anniversary Show,

Catalogue essay by Keith Bell

2000 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK

1999 Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB, The Sky Paintings,

Curator: Jeffrey Spalding

1999 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, The Sky Paintings, Catalog essay by Robert Christie

1997 Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver

1996 Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles, ‘Visits the Muskokas’

1996 West Kootenay Gallery, Castlegar, BC, Perehudoff, Knowles Family

Member Exhibit

1995 The Kenderdine Gallery & Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, The Boat Paintings, Catalogue

essay by Tim Nowlin

1995 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB

1994 Wallack Galleries, Ottawa, ON, Dorothy Knowles

1994 Traveling Show: Mendel Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum,

Whyte Museum, Dorothy Knowles, Catalog essay by Bruce Grenville

1994 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK, Recent Works

1993 Hambleton Galleries, Kelowna, BC, Dorothy Knowles: Recent Works

1993 Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC, Dorothy Knowles

1993 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, New Work

1992 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, Alberta

1991 Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles

1991 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Edmonton, Silent Movement

1990 Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto, ON, Major Acrylic Paintings by Dorothy Knowles

1990 Waddington & Gorce, Inc., Montreal, PQ, Canadian Landscapes

1989 Greenberg Wilson, New York, New York, Dorothy Knowles Landscapes

1987 Waddington & Gorce Inc., Montreal, PQ, Recent Landscapes

1987 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB/Vancouver, BC, New Work

1987 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK

1986 Waddington & Shiell Galleries Ltd., Toronto, ON, Major Paintings from Spring 1986

1986 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK

1986 Canadian Art Galleries,Calgary

1985 Waddington & Shiell Galleries Ltd., Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles: Watercolours

1984 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Dorothy Knowles New Works

1984 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Knowles

1984 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB

1983 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ, Recent Paintings

1983 Waddington & Shiell Galleries Ltd., Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles

1983 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Knowles

1983 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK, Recent Watercolours

1983 Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton, AB, New Work by Dorothy Knowles

1982 Traveling show organized by Edmonton Art Gallery. Dorothy Knowles,1964-1982. Curated

and catalogue by Terry Fenton

Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal

Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor

London Regional Art Galleries, London

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon

1982 Waddington Galleries, Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles, Paintings and Watercolours

1982 Waddington Galleries & Co. Inc., New York, New York, Dorothy Knowles, Paintings and

Watercolours

1982 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB, Dorothy Knowles

1981 Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Dorothy Knowles

1981 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Paintings and Watercolours

1980 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB

1980 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ

1979 Gallery One, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Knowles

1979 Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, New York, Dorothy Knowles,

New Paintings

1978 Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Watercolours

1978 Waddington Galleries, Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Paintings and Watercolours

1978 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Dorothy Knowles

1978 Downstairs Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Paintings, Watercolours

1978 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB, Watercolours & Drawings

1977 Beckett Gallery, Hamilton, ON

1975 Pucker/Safrai Gallery, Boston, MA, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Paintings, Watercolours

1975 Meredith Long Contemporary, New York, NY

1974 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Paintings

1973 Beckett Gallery, Hamilton, ON

1972 Traveling Show organized by Edmonton Art Gallery, Dorothy Knowles,1964-1982

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Dunlop

Art Gallery, Regina

1972 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ

1970 University Gallery, Department of Art, University of Saskatchewan, Dorothy Knowles

1970 Robertson Gallery, Ottawa, ON

1970 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ

1969 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

1969 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB

1968 Moose Jaw Art Museum, Moose Jaw, SK, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Dorothy

Knowles, Recent Paintings

1967 Bonli Interiors, Dorothy Knowles

1965 The David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, ON, Dorothy Knowles, Recent Landscapes. Catalogue

essay by Andrew Hudson

1964 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

1963 Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Knowles Paintings

1963 James Art Studio, Saskatoon, SK

1962 Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon, SK

1957 Regina Public Library Gallery, Regina, SK

1957 Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Perehudoff

1954 Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Knowles Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours,

Invitation essay by George Swinton

GROUP SHOWS

2016 Saskatchewan Art Show and Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 15 – April 9

2014 Mendel Art Gallery, Modern Visions: the 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Sept. 26th

2014 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Fall Show, Sept. 20th – Oct. 9th

2014 The Stall Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, Saskatchewan Art Galleries Taking it South, Feb. 28

2014 Winchester Galleries, Oak Bay, Victoria, BC, Private Collection, May 6-31

2013 Art Toronto 2013, represented by Han Art of Montreal, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 25-28

2013 Mendel Art Gallery, Rewilding Modernity, curated by Lisa Baldissera, Saskatoon, Oct. 13

2012 Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, The Jean Mackay Chubb and Francis L. Chubb Collection, September 28 - Dec. 16

2012 Art Placement Inc, Saskatoon SK, Prairie Painters: Light and Pattern

2010 Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Spring, April 10-24, Fall, Sept.18, Christmas, Dec. 11

Edmonton, AB, Spring April 17, Fall, Sept.25, Christmas, Dec.4

2010 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, The Drawing Show, April 17 –May 6, Signs of Spring,

April 3 – April 15, On Collecting, Feb. 20 –March 10, New Works, Sept. 5 – Sept. 23

2010 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Vancouver, BC, Order of Merit, Nov./09, Feb./10

2009 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Family Traditions, Dorothy Knowles, William Perehudoff,

Rebecca Perehudoff, Catherine Perehudoff, Carol Perehudoff July 18 – July 11th

2008 Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 22-26, represented by Douglas Udell Gallery

2008 Douglas Udell Gallery, Fall Show, Edmonton, Alberta, Sept 20-Oct.2

2008 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Floor to Ceiling

2007 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB , Fall Show Sept.29-Oct.13 ,Vancouver, B.C.Oct.13-26,

Christmas Show, Dec.15-24

2007 Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 25-29

2007 Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Prairie Companion, Jan.-to April 9

2007 Assiniboia Gallery, Grand Opening, Regina, SK March 3

2007 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, The Saskatchewan Landscape, Feb.10-March1

2007 Doug Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, The Big Picture Group Show, June 2-16

2006 Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Ont. Nov.9-13

2006 Douglas Udell Gallery, Calgary, AB, Opening Show, Feb.

2006 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Christmas Show, Dec. 2-14

2006 Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC Spring Show, March, Christmas Show Dec.9-23,

2005 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Landscapes, Dec.

2005 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Fall Show, Sept. 17, Christmas Show, Dec.17

2005 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, 100 Years of Saskatchewan Art, curated by A. Badzak

and D. Ring from the permanent collection

2005 Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Making Friends: The Role of Friends, Mentors, and

Patrons in the Development of Sask. Art, May 28 – Oct. 23

2005 The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB, Contemporary Views of the Bow River,

February 19-June 5

2004 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Clement Greenberg A Critic’s Collection, Palm Springs,

California, Oct.2

2004 Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Christmas Show, Dec.4-24, Spring Show, April 17-30

2004 Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Fall Show, Sept.18-Oct 2, Spring Show, April 3-17

2004 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK, Christmas Show,Dec.11 - 24

2004-7 Toronto Art Fair, represented by the Douglas Udell Gallery & Miriam Shiell Fine Art

2004 Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, BC, July-August

2003 Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK. Art in Bloom,Feb.1 -May 4, 2003

2003 Toronto Art Fair, represented by Mirium Shiell Fine Art and the Douglas Udell Gallery,

November 16 - 19

2003 Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Lodestar, RCA Show

July14 to August 24 2002, 2003 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON,

March 3 to 5,2002, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, June 14 to September 2, 2002;

Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK., Sept.27 to Jan. 12, 2003 Qu’Appelle, Tale of Two

Valleys, June 14 - September 2, co-curated by Dan Ring and Robert Stacy

2002 Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, June

2002 Douglas Udell Galleries, Edmonton, AB, Spring Show, April, Fall Shows, Vancouver, Sept

21, Edmonton, Sept. 28, 2002

2002 Toronto Art Fair, represented by Mirium Shiell Fine Art and Douglas Udell Gallery, Oct. 17-21.

2001 Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK., Still Life Exhibition, December

2001 Douglas Udell Galleries, Fall Shows, Edmonton, Sept 22- Oct.3, Vancouver Sept. 29-Oct.1

2001 Portland Art Museum, Portland Oregon, Clement Greenberg—A Critic’s Collection

2001 Toronto Art Fair, Represented by Douglas Udell Gallery Miriam Shiell Gallery, and

Waddington Gorce

2000 International Art Fair, Metro Convention Centre, Toronto, ON

1999 MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Reconstructed: North by West

1997-98 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, May 30 to September 28, 1997 Mackenzie Art Gallery,

Regina, SK, June 19 to August 16, 1998 Prairie Region Exhibition, Organized by the Royal

Canadian Academy of Arts in cooperation with the Winnipeg Art Gallery

1997 Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, The Canadian Collection at Apec’97, Nov 19-25

1996 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Rediscovering the Landscape of the Americas,

Curated by Alan Gussow and Gayle Maxon-Edgerton

1994 Weyburn Arts Council, Weyburn, SK, For Every Season (from the city of Weyburn permanent

collection)

1994 Presented by Trimark Mutual Funds and organized by: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The

Edmonton Art Gallery, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Hidden Values

1994 Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, ON, Achieving the Modern: Canadian Abstract Painting and

Design in the 50’s

1995 Traveling show organized by Sasktel and Organization of Saskatchewan Art Council

1995 Traveling show organized by Mendel Art Gallery, The Urban Prairie

1992 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, traveling to Windsor Art Gallery Achieving the Modern:

Canadian Abstract Painting and Design in the 1950s

1992 Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, PQ, Robert Ayre: The Critic and the Collection

1991 Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Relative Realities, Curated by Eileen Lampard

1990 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, The Object as Subject: Still-Life Art in

Saskatchewan

1990 McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, AB, A Family Show

1989 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB, Cowley/Knowles/Hardy—Survey

1989 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Spring 89

1989 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, The Flat Side of the Landscape: The Emma Lake Artists’

Workshops

1989 Triangle of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB, Contemporary Watercolor Exhibition

1988 Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, SK, A Common Bond

1988 Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Large Works on Paper

1988 Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary, AB, Contemporary ‘88

1988 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Talking Through Time: Contemporary Art from Saskatoon

1988 Saskatchewan Centres for Exhibiting Art, Sasktel Corporate Art Exhibition Tour

1987 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Tradition and Innovation: Saskatoon Art and the 1950’s

1986 Wade Gallery, Los Angeles, Selected Works by Contemporary Canadian Artists

1986 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

1985 Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, Ill

1983 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, SK, and Canada House, London, Paris, Brussels, Five

from Saskatchewan, Catalog introduction by K. Bell, P. Close

1982 Frances Morrison Library, Saskatoon, SK, Saskatoon Early Images

Landscape Painting on the Prairies

1980 MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, New Works on Paper by Saskatchewan Artists

1980 Grimsby Public Art Gallery, “Dofasco Collection”, July 23-Sept.3

1979 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Dorothy Knowles and Wynona Mulcaster

1978 The Art Gallery of Hamilton, “Selections From the Dofasco Collection” November 24,1978-

January 7,1979

1978 Thomas Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Six Saskatoon Artists

1978 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Modern Painting in Canada

1978 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, The Saskatoon Arts Board Collection

1977 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canadian Tapestries

1976 Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 14 Canadians—A Critic’s Choice

1976 Saskatchewan Art at the Montreal Olympics

1976 Edmonton Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Ontario, Changing Visions: The Canadian Landscape

1975 Traveling Exhibition organized by Time-Life Canada Ltd., The Canadian Canvas

1975 Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, From Women’s Eyes:

Painters in Canada

1975 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, The Ontario Community Collects: A Survey of Canadian

Paintings from 1976 to 1975

1975 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, and Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, 9 out of

10—A Survey of Contemporary Canadian Art

1974 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Survey 74

1974 Swift Current National Exhibition Centre, Swift Current, SK, Swift Current 74

1973 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Emma Lake Workshops

1972 Waddington Galleries, Montreal, PQ, Knowles-Perehudoff, Recent Paintings

1972 Regina Public Library Gallery, Regina, SK, A June Show, Drawings by Saskatchewan Artists

1971 Edmonton Art Gallery, traveled to Mendel Art Gallery and Glenbow Museum, West 71,

Catalogue introduction by Karen Wilkin

1971 Extension Services of the National Gallery Traveling Show, Watercolour Painters of

Saskatchewan, Catalogue introduction by Terry Fenton

1971 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK: Art and Artists, catalogue introduction by Nancy

Dillow

1970 Regina Public Library Gallery, Regina, SK

1970 Kitchener-Waterloo Gallery, Kitchener, ON, Saskatchewan: Regina and Saskatoon

1969 Waddington Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, Knowles-Perehudoff

1969 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, Two Artists from Saskatoon

1969 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Saskatoon: Thirteen Artists

1968 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, 7th Biennial Exhibition of Canadian Painting,

Catalogue introduction by William C. Seitz

1968 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, PQ, Surrey 68 Sondage 68

1967 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatchewan Artists,

Catalogue introduction by John Climer

1967 Carleton University Gallery, Ottawa, ON

1967 Willistead Art Gallery of Windsor, ON, Artists from Saskatchewan

1967 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, and Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Eleven

Saskatchewan Artists

1966 Regina Public Library Gallery, Regina, SK

1966 Western Canadian Art Circuit, Regina, SK, Watercolors by Reta Cowley, Dorothy Perehudoff,

Grace Hogg

1966 Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Calgary, AB

1966 Winnipeg Biennial, Winnipeg, MB

1965 Diamond Jubilee Critics Selection, Saskatoon, SK

1963 Regina Public Library Gallery, Regina, SK, Two Saskatchewan

Painters, Dorothy Knowles and Clara Samuels

1962 Winnipeg Art Gallery, Group Show with Otto Rogers, Dorothy Knowles,

1953 Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Artists of Saskatchewan, 3 Artists

1953 Saskatoon Art Centre, Bill and Dorothy Perehudoff

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SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Hamilton

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Gallery of Peterborough

Art Gallery of Windsor

Bank of Commerce

Bank of Montreal

Bell Canada

Bram Garber Collection

Boston Museum

Canada Council Art Bank

Canadian Greenshields

Claridge Collection

Concordia University, Montreal

Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown

Department of External Affairs, Government of Canada

Dominion Foundries and Steel Ltd.

Dupont Canada Inc.

Edmonton Art Gallery

First City Capital Markets

First City Trust Savings Ltd.

General Foods

Glenbow Museum, Calgary

Gulf Canada

Granite Club, Toronto

Harthouse, University of Toronto

Imperial Oil

Imperial Life Insurance Co.

Kamloops Art Gallery

Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan

Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery

Macgloughlin/Mitchell

Mackenzie Art Gallery

Maclean Hunter

Mendel Collection

Mendel Art Gallery

Moose Jaw Art Gallery

Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal

Nabisco Inc.

National Gallery of Canada

Nutana Collegiate

Nova Corporation

Pemberton Collection

Petro-Canada

Portland Art Museum

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan

Rideau Hall

Royal Bank

Royal Trust

Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd.

Saskatchewan Arts Board

Sask Tel

Sharecom

Shaw Cable Systems

Shell Canada

Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada

Stewart/Olsen

Tannock Ltd.

Toronto Dominion Bank

Touche Ross Inc.

Trimac Ltd.

University of Alberta

University of Calgary

University of Regina

University of Saskatchewan

University of Saskatchewan College of Agriculture, The Kloppenburg Collection

Vancouver Art Gallery

Westburne International Industries

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Documentaries & Videos

2003 Dorothy Knowles The Artist’s Life (Series 1), Directed by Michael Glassbourg, Produced by TickleScratch Productions. http://movingimages.ca/store/products.php?dorothy_knowles

2004 Between the North Pole and New York City, a television documentary covering 5 decades of the Emma Lake Workshops, interviews with artists and critics, including Dorothy Knowles, directed by Mark Wihak and Daryl K. Davis, premier show Oct 3, p.m. 2004. Produced by Cooper Rock Productions.

2010 Dorothy Knowles and Terry Fenton – In Conversation ...

www.mendel.ca/dorothy-knowles-and-terry-fenton-in-conversation/

2013 Dorothy Knowles- Conversation with the Artist, Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAy72SNHkQQ

Uploaded by Douglas Udell Gallery

AWARDS and HONOURS

1982 Painting selected for Canada Postage Stamp

1982 Cited by Century Saskatoon for Award of Appreciation in the Arts

1987 Saskatchewan Award of Merit

1994 Honorary Degree Recipient, Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), University of Regina

2004 Member of the Order of Canada

2005 Centennial Medal of Saskatchewan

2007 Canada Post Corporation honoring Dorothy Knowles with the inclusion

of 2 paintings in their Art Series

2009 Alumni of Influence Award, University of Saskatchewan

2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

2017 Senate 150th Anniversary Medal