The Emma Lake Artists' Workshops are affiliated with the

University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan (U of S, or USask) is a Universities in Canada, Canadian public university, public research university, founded on March 19, 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatch ...

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. Summer art classes were originally taught by

Augustus Kenderdine Augustus Frederick Lafosse (Gus) Kenderdine (1870–1947) was a landscape and portrait artist of Lancashire and Saskatchewan, a farmer of Saskatchewan, and academic at the University of Saskatchewan. England Kenderdine was born the third of s ...

at Murray Point on Emma Lake in 1936.

Kenneth Lochhead Kenneth Campbell Lochhead, L.L. D. (May 22, 1926 – July 15, 2006) was a professor and painter. He was the brother of poet Douglas Lochhead. Career Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Lochhead attended the Summer Art School at Queen's University in 1944. ...

and

Arthur McKay Arthur Fortescue McKay, best known as Art McKay L.L. D. (September 11, 1926 – August 3, 2000) was a painter and a member of the Regina Five. Most of his work is abstract. Early life and education McKay was born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan. His ...

, professors at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus (now called the

University of Regina The University of Regina is a public university located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Founded in 1911 as a private denominational high school of the Methodist Church of Canada, it began an association with the University of Saskatchewan as a j ...

since 1974) initiated the more famous Emma Lake Artists' Workshops in 1955.

Workshop leaders by date

*1955

Jack Shadbolt Jack Leonard Shadbolt, (February 4, 1909 November 22, 1998) was a Canadian painter. Early life Born in Shoeburyness, England, Shadbolt came to Canada with his parents in April 1911. He was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. He studied at t ...

(workshop leader) *1956 Joseph Plaskett (workshop leader) *1957

Will Barnet Will Barnet (May 25, 1911November 13, 2012) was an American visual artist and teacher, known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent d ...

(workshop leader) *1958 No workshop *1959

Barnett Newman Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American painter. He has been critically regarded as one of the major figures of abstract expressionism, and one of the foremost color field painters. His paintings explore the sense ...

(workshop leader) *1960

John Ferren John Millard Ferren (October 17, 1905 – July 1, 1970) was an American artist and educator. He was active from 1920 until 1970 in San Francisco, Paris and New York City. Early life John Ferren was born in Pendleton, Oregon on October 17, 1 ...

(workshop leader) *1961

Herman Cherry Herman Cherry (1909–1992) was a non-objective abstract painter who participated in all five of the artist-curated Stable Gallery exhibitions in Manhattan between 1953 and 1957 and who received his first New York solo exhibition at Stable in 19 ...

(workshop leader) *1962

Clement Greenberg Clement Greenberg () (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formali ...

(workshop leader) *1963

Kenneth Noland Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimal ...

(workshop leader) *1964

Jules Olitski Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Early life Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republ ...

and Stephan Wolpe (workshop leaders) *1965

Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Reginald Alloway (17 September 1926 – 2 January 1990) was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from 1961. In the 1950s, he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an i ...

and

John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...

(workshop leaders) *1966 Harold Cohen (workshop leader) *1967

Frank Stella Frank Philip Stella (May 12, 1936 – May 4, 2024) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career befor ...

(workshop leader) *1968

Donald Judd Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism.Tate Modern websit"Tate Modern Past Exhibitions Donald Judd" Retrieved on February 19, 2009. In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for ...

(workshop leader) (The workshop was not held at Emma Lake, but at Rapid River Lodge, Lac La Ronge) *1969 Michael Steiner (workshop leader) *1970 Ronald B. Kitaj (workshop leader) *1971 no workshop *1972

Roy Kiyooka Roy Kenzie Kiyooka (January 18, 1926January 8, 1994) was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher. Biography A Nisei, or a second generation Japanese Canadian, Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and raised in Cal ...

(workshop leader) *1973 William Wiley (workshop leader) *1974 no workshop *1975 no workshop *1976

Toni Onley Toni Onley (November 20, 1928 – February 29, 2004) was a Manx-Canadian painter noted for his landscapes and abstract works. Born in Douglas on the Isle of Man, he moved to Canada in 1948 and lived in Brantford, Ontario. Later he moved to Va ...

, Douglas Haynes, Hubert Hohn, Sidney Tillim, Harold Feist, Hans Dommasch, Daniel Solomon, Andre Fauteux,

Otto Rogers Otto Donald Rogers (19 November 1935 – 28 April 2019) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from rural Saskatchewan whose abstract works reflects his Baháʼí Faith in unity in diversity. His work has been widely exhibited. It is held in man ...

, Bruce O'Neil, Joseph Reeder, and Alan Gliko (workshop guest leaders) *1977

Wynona Mulcaster Wynona Croft Mulcaster (April 10, 1915 – August 25, 2016) was a Canadian painter and teacher from Saskatchewan, best known for her prairie landscapes. She also played an important role in developing horse show, competitive riding in Saskatoo ...

Richard Mock Richard Mock (1944 – July 28, 2006) was a printmaker, painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. Mock was best known for his linocut illustrations that appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times from 1980 through 1996. Born in 1944 in ...

, Warren Rohrer, Ken Carpenter, Edna Andrade,

Mina Forsyth Mina Forsyth (September 20, 1921 in Estevan, Saskatchewan – 1987 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) was a Canadian artist. She is known for her expressionist and abstract landscapes, figural works and still life paintings. Education In 1955 Mina ...

, Rick Chenier,

Carol Sutton Carol Sutton may refer to: * Carol Sutton (actress) * Carol Sutton (journalist) * Carol Sutton (artist) {{hndis, Sutton, Carol ...

Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' and industrial objects. He began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with ...

, Terry Fenton, Douglas Bentham, and

(workshop guest leaders) *1978 no workshop *1979 Friedel Dzubas and

John Elderfield John Elderfield (born 25 April 1943) was Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 2003 to 2008.''Who’s Who 2011'', A&C Black, 2011 He served as the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator ...

(workshop leaders) *1980 Kenworth Moffett and Darryl Hughto (workshop leaders) *1981

Walter Darby Bannard Walter Darby Bannard (September 23, 1934 – October 2, 2016) was an American abstract painter and professor of art and art history at the University of Miami. Biography Bannard was born in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Phillips Exeter Ac ...

and

John McLean John McLean (March 11, 1785 – April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice of the Ohio and United States Supreme Courts. He was often discu ...

(workshop leaders) *1982

Stanley Boxer Stanley Boxer (1926-May 8, 2000) was an American artist best known for thickly painted abstract works of art. He was also an accomplished sculptor and printmaker. He received awards from the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for t ...

and

James Wolfe Major-general James Wolfe (2 January 1727 – 13 September 1759) was a British Army officer known for his training reforms and, as a major general, remembered chiefly for his victory in 1759 over the French at the Battle of the Plains of ...

(workshop leaders) *1983

Charles Millard Charles Hibbert (Charlie) Millard (August 25, 1896 – November 24, 1978) was a Canadian trade union activist and politician. Early life He was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, the son of a railroad repairman, and first trained as a carpenter. Mil ...

and

Larry Zox Lawrence "Larry" Zox (May 31, 1937 – December 16, 2006) was an American painter and printmaker who is classified as an Abstract expressionist, Color Field painter, a Lyrical Abstractionist, and a Hard Edge painter although he did not readily ...

(workshop leaders) *1984

Tim Scott Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American businessman and politician serving since 2013 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from South Carolina. A member of the Re ...

and Valentin Tatransky (workshop leaders) *1985 Maryann Harmon and

Karen Wilkin Karen Wilkin (born 1940) is a New York–based independent curator and art critic specializing in 20th-century modernism. Biography Educated at Barnard College (1962) and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbri ...

(workshop leaders) *1986 Peter Bradley and John Link (workshop leaders) *1987 Tim Hilton and

Terry Atkinson Terry Atkinson (born 1939) is an English artist. Career Atkinson was born in Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. He lives in Leamington Spa, England with his wife, artist Sue Atkinson, with whom he has frequently collaborated. In 1967, he beg ...

(workshop leaders) *1988

Joseph Drapell Joseph Drapell (born March 13, 1940) is a Czech-Canadian abstract painter. Early life Drapell was born in Humpolec, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated to Canada in 1966. From 1968-1970 he studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills ...

, Harold Feist, and Douglas Haynes (workshop leaders) *1989

Paterson Ewen Paterson Ewen (April 7, 1925 – February 17, 2002) was a Canadian painter. He was a founding member of the Non-figurative artist's association of Montréal, along with Claude Tousignant, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Guido Molinari, and Marcel Barbeau. ...

, Sandra Paikowsky, and Joseph Masheck (workshop leaders) *1990 Mali Morris, Robert Kudielka,

Dorothy Knowles Dorothy Elsie Knowles (April 6, 1927 – May 16, 2023) was a Canadian visual artist, most notable for her landscape paintings. She was the widow of William Perehudoff, a fellow artist who is closely associated with the Color Field movement. ...

, and

Willard Boepple Willard may refer to: People * Willard (name) Geography Places in the United States * Willard, Colorado * Willard, Georgia * Willard, Kansas * Willard, Kentucky * Willard, Michigan, a small unincorporated community in Beaver Township, Bay ...

(workshop leaders) *1991

John Gibbons John Michael Gibbons (born June 8, 1962) is an American professional baseball coach, manager and former player. Gibbons played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher with the New York Mets in 1984 and 1986. Gibbons became a coach for the ...

, Terry Fenton and Nancy Tousley (workshop leaders) *1992 *1993 Medrie McFwee, Lee Tribe, and Lynn Donahue (workshop leaders) *1994

Janet Fish Janet Fish (born May 18, 1938) is a contemporary American realist artist. Through oil painting, lithography, and screenprinting, she explores the interaction of light with everyday objects in the still life genre. Many of her paintings include ...

and Victor Cicansky (workshop leaders) *1995 Judith Swartz and

Landon Mackenzie Landon Mackenzie (born 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, Canada. She is known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she continues as Professor Emeritu ...

(workshop leaders) *2001

Chris Cran Chris Cran (born 1949 in Ocean Falls, British Columbia) is a Canadian visual artist, based in Calgary, Alberta. Cran's work "investigates perception and illusion, and the viewer’s role in how images are formed...Widely exhibited across Can ...

(workshop leader) *2002 *2003

and Clay Ellis (workshop leaders) *2004 *2005 Robert Christie and Ron Shuebrook(co-workshop leaders) *2007 Monica Tap (workshop leader) *2009 Kim Dorland (workshop leader) *2010 *2011 David T. Alexander (workshop leader) *2012 Elizabeth McIntosh (workshop leader)King, John. (1972). The Emma Lake Workshops 1955-1970: A Documented Study of the Artists’ Workshop at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan, of the School of Art, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, 1955-1970. Manitoba: Brandon University.

Publications

*''The Flat Side of the Landscape: the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops'' / curator/editor: John O'Brian; essays, John O'Brian ... t al.Saskatoon : Mendel Art Gallery, c1989 (Published for the exhibition, The flat side of the landscape : the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops held from October 5, 1989 to April 21, 1991) *''Abstraction West : Emma Lake and after = Abstraction dans l'Ouest : le lac Emma et après'' / by Terry Fenton. Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada for the Corporation of the National Museums of Canada, 1976 *''Emma Lake Workshops, 1955-1973.'' atalogue of an exhibition held fromSeptember 21 to October 21, 1973. Regina : Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, 1973

References

External links

''Influences of Emma Lake Art School'', Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.''Making Friends: The Role of Friends, Mentors and Patrons in the Development of Saskatchewan Art.'' Exhibition May 28, 2005 to October 23, 2005. Organized by the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Curated by Timothy Long, Head Curator.

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