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The Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Permanent Art Collection contains works by local, provincial, national, and international artists. Works from this collection are on exhibit at various times throughout the year. We welcome you to discover a few of the artists, and their work, from our collection. As well, records for all works in the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery Permanent Collection can be viewed on the Artefacts Canada website

View some of our Recent Acquisitions

Bloore, Ron Brunst, Stanley Cloutier, Paul
Cowley, Rita Dennis, Eva Dennis, Wesley
Fenton, Terry Froese, Gus Godwin, Ted
Grayson, Vaughan Henderson, James Ivan, Edit
Jacobson, Sybil Kenderdine, A.F. Knowles, Dorothy
Konopaki, Rod Lindner, Ernest Loos, Walter
Lochhead, K Meggitt, Anne McKay, Art
Morton, Doug Parsons, Wendy Perreault, Wilf
Pragnell, Bart Rankin, Joan Richardson, J.T.
Sapp, Allen Sparrow, Cliff Treherne, Harold
Kerr, Illingworth

Here are the biographies of artists not listed above.






   
 
Linocut on Paper
7.0 x 10.2 cm
t Nicholas
1940
Colour woodcut on paper
10.8 x 12.7 cm
 
   
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Bloore, Ronald
Le Forêt Mécanique
stove pipe enamel on masonite
circa 1958
GEL.9.74.9.19

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Brunst, Stanley
Drycleaning Plant Interior
watercolour on paperboard
39.3 x 54.3 cm
9.93.5.1

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Cloutier, Paul
Untitled
oil on canvas
50.1 x 40.2 cm
9.99.9.1


Cloutier, Paul
Untitled
oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
9.99.9.2


Cloutier, Paul
Untitled
oil on canvas
50.1 x 40 cm
9.99.9.3

Paul Cloutier - Biography (PDF)
Born 18 February 1919, Lafleche, Saskatchewan. Resident of Tuxford, Saskatchewan.
1945 - 48 Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, B.C.
1955 - 56 University of Saskatchewan, Regina College School of Art, Regina, with Kenneth Lochhead
1957 Emma Lake Artist's Workshop with Will Barnet

Media and Style
oil, acrylic, watercolour; representational, landscape, portraits

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Cowley, Reta
South Saskatchewan River East of Osler
watercolour on paper
1978
70.8 x 53.6 cm
A.9.78.28.1

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Dennis, Eva - Biography (PDF)
Dodgeball at Summerside School
oil on canvas board
1977
71 x 46 cm
9.95.24.37


Eva Dennis
Born 16 December 1904, Gravenhurst, Ontario, resident of Brownley Saskatchewan, died 22 September 1995, Central Butte, Saskatchewan
1928 Teacher training, Moose Jaw Normal School, Moose Jaw Sask.
1928 - 65, Teacher in rural Sask. schools

Media and Style
oil, acrylic, watercolour, drawing; naive, portraits, flowers, animals, remembrances of varied experiences from teaching years in rural Sask.

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Dennis, Wesley - Biography (PDF)
Yesteryear
oil on canvas
1952
38.7 x 14.6 cm
A.9.74.17.1

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Fenton, Terry
Traveller's Tale
oil on canvas
1989
152 x 101 cm
9.97.14.11

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Froese, Gus - Biography (PDF)
Old Memories
acrylic on wood
1996
9.97.12.1


Froese, Gus
Night Skyline
oil on canvas
1977
112.8 x 60.5 cm
9.94.4.16

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Ted Godwin
Untitled
mixed media on mat board
1962
50.7 x 81 cm
GEL.9.90.7.23

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Grayson, Vaughan
Johnson Canyon
oil on board
50.6 x 61 cm
9.99.21.55


Grayson, Vaughan
Boat Houses, Kootenay Lake
oil on board
1957
30.5 25.4 cm
9.99.21.79


Grayson, Vaughan
Twin Lakes, Okanagan Valley
oil on board
35.5 x 25.5 cm
9.99.21.75


Grayson, Vaughan
Echo Lake, Yellow Rock
30.5 x 25.9 cm
9.99.21.1


Grayson, Vaughan
Lake of Jade, Mount Revelstoke
silkscreen
36.1 x 30.5 cm
9.99.21.3


Grayson, Vaughan
Untitled
silkscreen
34.1 x 27.3 cm
9.99.21.5


Vaughan Grayson - Biography (PDF)
Artist, Vaughan Grayson, was born in 1894 into a prominant Moose Jaw family. Trained as a school teacher, she received a B.Sc. from Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1923. In the 1920's, she published two books about teaching art appreciation in primary and secondary schools which were widely used in Canada. She painted using all media, was an accomplished printmaker, traveled throughout the world, and wrote an unpublished book about working as an artist in the Rocky Mountains. She died in the early 1990's in Moose Jaw.

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Henderson, James
Untitled
oil on canvas board
30.2 x 21 cm
GEL.9.90.7.56

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Ivan, Edit
Untitled
ink on paper
9.98.20.4

Edit Ivan
Born 13 March 1920, Debrecen, Hungary. Died 31 August 1962, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Resident of Saskatoon, 1957 - 62.
1930 - 38, Private drawing classes, Debrecen, Hungary
1948, Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
1961, Emma Lake Summer School/Workshops

Media and Style
oil, acrylic, pencil, watercolour, gouache, ink; expressionist, abstract; portraits, landscapes
"She had an innate sense of style, confident and economic that informed all her work; she knew well how to achieve the richest expression from the minimum of means." Andrew Hudson, Canadian Art, March/April 1963

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Jacobson, Sybil
Untitled
oil on canvas
59 x 70 cm
9.98.29.1


Jacobson, Sybil
Henri Lajouie
oil on canvas
1933
49.4 x 64 cm
E.L.9.68.15.4

Sybil Jacobson - Biography (PDF)
Born 21 July 1881, London, England, died 4 November 1953, Vancouver, British Columbia. Emigrated to Saskatchewan to homestead in 1912, lived in Moose Jaw, Lac Vert Nord, and Winnipeg before moving to Vancouver in 1936.
1901, Studies at the Hastings and St. Leonard's Municipal Scool of Science, London, England.
n.d. Studied at Lambeth School of Science and Art, London, England.
Three years at Royal Academy, London, with John Singer Sargent Studies in France.
1925, Art teacher, Saskatoon, Sask.
n.d. Art teacher in her studio at Lac Vert Nord, Sask.
1932, Established a studio in Moose Jaw, Sask
1937 - 38, Art teacher at the Canadian Institute of Associated Arts, Vancouver, B.C.

Style and Media
oil, watercolour; plein air painting in the tradition of Barbizon School; portraits, flowers, landscapes.

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Kenderdine, A.F.
Northern Lake
oil on canvas
E.L.9.68.15.2

A.F. Kenderdine
Born 31 March 1870, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, England. Immigrated to Canada in 1908, resident of Saskatchewan. Died 4 August 1947, Saskatoon Saskatchewan.
1880's, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, England
1886, Apprentice to a number of established artists in Blackpool, England
1891, Studied at Academie Julien, Paris, France
1892, Photographer and fine art dealer, Blackpool, England
1921 -25, Established studio, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; taught art classes
1926 - 36, Art Instructor, University of Saskatchewan
1936, Founder of Summer School of Art, University of Saskatchewan Emma Lake, Sask. Director,
School of Fine Art, Regina College. Curator, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina
1936 - 47, Director and instructor, Summer School of Art, University of Saskatchewan, Emma Lake, Sask.

Media and Style
oil, charcoal, watercolour, drawing, mural; traditional, Barbizon school, impressionist; landscape, portrait, still life

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Knowles, Dorothy
Untitled
watercolour on paper
1971
37.5 x 31.3 cm
GEL.9.73.15.26

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Konopaki, Rodney - Biography (PDF)
The Strawberry Statement
mixed media collage
1992
9.97.15.3

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Lindner, Ernest
Emma Lake
watercolour on paper
74.4 x 54.2 cm
A.9.67.25.1

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Loos, Walter - Biography (PDF)
Stooks, Southern Saskatchewan
oil on board
46.8 x 31.1 cm
E.L.9.69.21.4

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Lochhead, Kenneth
Fusion
acrylic on paper
1963
66.2 x 50.9 cm
GEL.9.90.7.22


Lochhead, Kenneth
Untitled
acrylic on paper
1955
74 x 52.2 cm
GEL.9.90.7.50

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Meggitt, Anne
Northern Summer
oil on canvas
1992
121.9 x 127 cm
9.98.21.1

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McKay, Arthur
Untitled
watercolour and ink on paper
1979
77 x 57.2 cm
GEL.9.90.7.19


McKay, Arthur
Untitled
oil on board
1950
40.1 x 32.6 cm
GEL.9.73.15.38


McKay, Arthur
Untitled
enamel on masonite
60.8 x 60.9 cm
GEL.9.73.15.13

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Morton, Douglas
Untitled
graphite on paper
1961
66.2 x 50.9 cm
GEL.9.90.7.39

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Parsons, Wendy - Biography (PDF)
Mercury and Virgo
glazed porcelain
1984
14.2 x 14 x 9 cm, 10.5 x 14 x 11.5 cm
9.84.2.1ab

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Perreault, Wilf
Warm Fall Evening
acrylic on canvas
1981
112 x 144.3 cm
9.81.11.1

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Pragnell, Bart - Biography (PDF)
Moose Jaw Tech School Art Class Group
oil on canvas
1932
45.8 x 51 cm
9.93.4.8


Pragnell, Bart
Untitled
gouache on card
1930
54.6 x 17.1 cm
9.96.19.4


Pragnell, Bart
Untitled
watercolour on paper
1929
25.4 x 25.4 cm
9.96.19.3


Pragnell, Bart
Untitled
watercolour on paper
30.2 x 21 cm
9.93.4.4

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Rankin, Joan - Biography (PDF)
Deep Purple Field
acrylic on canvas
circa 1966
156.9 x 208 cm
A.9.68.17.1

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Richardson, J.T.
Winter in the Bluffs
oil on paperboard
1901
30.1 x 40.1 cm
GEL.9.90.7.73

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Sapp, Allen
Taking Wood to Town
acrylic on canvas
1969
86.4 x 63.4 cm
A.9.70.25.1

Allen Sapp
Born 2 January 1928, Red Pheasant Reserve, North Battleford, Saskatchewan, resident of North Battleford.

Self-taught
1960's, Art classes with Wynona Mulcaster

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Sparrow, Cliff
Untitled
wood sculpture
1977
9.86.11.3

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Treherne, Harold
Saskatchewan Street Looking East at Night
pen and pencil crayon on paper
1962
72.4 x 48.2 cm
9.71.28.1

Harold Treherne
Born 2 June 1899, Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. Died 14 July 1975, Altrincham, Cheshire.
Immigrated to Canada 1923, resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, 1945 - 75.

Folk artist, mostly self-taught

Media and Style
ballpoint pen, pencil crayon, folk art; landscape

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Kerr, Illingworth
Untitled
ink on card
25.5 x 35.3 cm
GEL.9.90.7.58


Kerr, Illingworth
Kananaskis River
oil on canvas board
1976
50.8 x 40.5 cm
GEL.9.90.7.61


Kerr, Illingworth
Untitled
watercolour on paper
45.6 x 30.2
GEL.9.90.7.64

Illingworth Kerr
Born 20 August 1905, Lumsden, Saskatchewan, died 1989, Calgary, Alberta
1924, Art classes, Central Technical School, Toronto, Ont.
1924 - 27, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, with Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley, J.W. Beaty
1936, Westminster School of Art, London, England
1954, Studied with Hans Hofmann, Provincetown, Massachusetts
1936, Assistant director of documentary films, London, England
1936 - 37, Short story writer, Blackwood's Magazine, Edinburgh, Scotland
1945 - 46, Instructor, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.
1947 - 67, Head, Art Department, Alberta College of Art, Calgary

Media and Style
oil, acrylic, watercolour; woodcut; illustration; abstract; landscape, portrait