History, Art and Architecture Collection
O-3060
painting
The Carlton Trail

O-3060
painting
The Carlton Trail

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Specifications

Artists Dorothy Elsie Knowles (Artist)
Date 1978
Signature D. KNOWLES. 78
Inscriptions
IN MEMORY OF // OLIVE E. DIEFENBAKER, B.A., L.L.D., D.C.L. // PRESENTED BY THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE PARLIAMENTARY WIVES // "THE CARLTON TRAIL BY DOROTHY KNOWLES".
Materials paint, oil
Support canvas • wood, unidentified
Personal Names Olive Diefenbaker
Dimensions (cm) 77.0 (Width)59.3 (Height)4.2 (Thickness)
Functions Art
Barcode 600979
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Dorothy Elsie Knowles

Dorothy Knowles was born in Unity, Saskatchewan, in 1927. She studied biology and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saskatchewan before attending the Goldsmith School of Art in London in 1951. Knowles participated in many of the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops, a summer program for professional artists led by various eminent figures of the post-war American modernist movement. Surrounded by abstractionists, she dedicated herself to landscape painting. Her traditional compositions and loose brushwork reflect the influence of Cézanne and Knowles’s strong connection with Western Canada. Knowles was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004.