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KAUFMAN, Carolyn Reesor
- Born
- Markham, Ontario, 1883
- Died
- Edmonton, Alberta, 1968
- Biography synopsis
- Carolyn Kaufman (nee Reesor) moved to Alberta following her marriage to Stanley Kaufman in 1912. She began art studies in Alberta where she took courses with well-known artists including P.G. Mortimer, L. Petley-Jones, William Johnstone, and H.G. Glyde. She was active in a number of Edmonton art groups, including the Alberta Society of Artists and the Edmonton Art Club; she also served as President of the Edmonton branch of the Federation of Canadian Artists. She had several solo exhibitions and often showed her work in the annual Canadian Painter-Etchers Society exhibitions as well as a number of art venues in Western Canada. She produced a series of over 175 paintings of churches of Alberta, Yukon and Alaska, eighty of which appeared in a book that she wrote and illustrated entitled “Historic Churches of Alberta and the Canadian Northwest,” published in 1958. A number of the paintings were exhibited in February 1972 at the Provincial Museum and Archives in Edmonton.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Memberships
- Alberta Society of Artists
- Edmonton Art Club
- Federation of Canadian Artists
- File & Archive locations
- Calgary Public Library, AB - Arts Department
- London Public Library, ON
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- University of British Columbia - Fine Arts Library
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Kaufman Artwork Displayed." Edmonton Journal 20 Oct. 1972
- "Museum Attendance." Edmonton Journal 4 Feb. 1972: 62
- "Social Activites." Edmonton Journal 24 Feb.1951: 20
- Alberta Society of Artists, Edmonton Art Gallery. Alberta Society of Artists Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975
- Cochran, Bente Roed. Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985 Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1989
- Griwkowsky, Fish. "Edmonton Art Club celebrates 100 Years at AGA, which it helped create." Edmonton Journal 11 Nov. 2021
http://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/local-arts/edmonton-art-club-celebrates-100-years-at-aga-which-it-helped-create - 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- Kaufman, Carolyn Reesor. Historic Churches of Alberta and the Canadian North West. Edmonton, Alberta: Hamly Press, 1958
