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BARNHOUSE, Dorothy Paul
- Born
- Burin, Newfoundland, 1914
- Died
- Edmonton, Alberta, 2005
- Biography synopsis
- In addition to her painting production, Dorothy Barnhouse was a well-known art critic with the Edmonton Journal beginning in the 1940s. She studied for brief periods at the Vancouver School of Art, the Banff School of Fine Arts, the University of Alberta, and the Institute Allende in Mexico. Barnhouse also taught classes at the Edmonton Art Gallery and the University of Alberta Department of Extension in the 1930s and 40s. Actively engaged in the arts community, she joined the Edmonton Sketch Club and the Edmonton Art Club in 1944 and was also a member of the Alberta Society of Artists. Although she experimented with a range of media, it is her landscape and townscape paintings that were shown in exhibitions in Alberta, Montreal and Winnipeg. Her work is held in the collections of the Alberta Foundation of the Arts, the Edmonton Public School Board, and the University of Alberta, as well as in the Poole Collection.
- Media used
- Ceramics
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Education
- Vancouver School of Art
- Banff School of Fine Arts
- Institute Allende, San Miguel de Allende
- University of Alberta
- Memberships
- Alberta Society of Artists
- Edmonton Art Club, 1944
- File & Archive locations
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Cochran, Bente Roed. Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985 Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989
- MacDonald, Colin S. The Dictionary of Canadian Artists. (Volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker) Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009
- Townshend, Nancy. A History of Art in Alberta, 1905-1970 Calgary, Alberta: Bayeux, 2005
- Zimon, Kathy E. Alberta Society of Artists: The First Seventy Years Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2000
Writings by- Barnhouse, Dorothy. "Alberta Painter’s Work Is Paradox." Edmonton Journal 9 Feb. 1965
- Barnhouse, Dorothy. J.B. Taylor’s Art Quite Distinctive.” Edmonton Journal April 1966
- Barnhouse, Dorothy. “Artist’s Work Shows Feeling for Sick World.” Edmonton Journal 13 Nov. 1967: 24
- Barnhouse, Dorothy. “Color Seduction Absent in Art Show.” Edmonton Journal, 20 Apr. 1968
- Barnhouse, Dorothy. “Exhibit by Nichol Last For Gallery.” Edmonton Journal 19 Oct. 1963
Full text pdfs of exhibition reviews- Art Association of Montreal Annual Spring Exhibition: (Montreal, March 15, 1940) "Art Association Opens 57th Spring Exhibit. Notable Feature of Display Is Unusually Large Proportion Of Portraits or Portrait Studies." Montreal Star March 21, 1940. p.19. Full-text pdf
