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DUKES, Caroline
- Born
- Ujpest, Hungary, 1929
- Died
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2003
- Biography synopsis
- After surviving the Holocaust, Caroline Dukes studied sculpture in Hungary in 1948 and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1952 before flleeing Hungary and eventually immigrating to Toronto in 1958. She attended the School of Art at the University Manitoba from 1968-1972 to study painting and sculpture. Her large-scale paintings, often focused on memory, evolved from hard-edged to atmospheric approaches over time. Dukes produced her paintings in series beginning in the 1970s with the Interior Series which focused on the human figure followed by the light-filled Landscape Series in the 1980s. During the 1990s she produced the Buildings Series (1991) and Cities Series (1995-1998) which focused on past memories of Budapest, Munich and Jerusalem and often incorporated diverse materials including ripped book pages, sheet music, and broken glass. In 1996 the exhibition “Remember … Relate … Retell” centred on early personal memories where Dukes also incorporated sound. She was actively involved in the Winnipeg art community for over thirty-five years. In addition to her election to the Royal Canadian Academy in 1994, she was a founding member of SITE Gallery, Winnipeg’s first artist-run exhibition space. In 2003, the Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art established the “Caroline Dukes Legacy Fund.” In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions, a retrospective of her works entitled “Concealed Memories” was held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2008. In 2016 her work was included in the exhibition “Being There” at the School of Arts Gallery, and in 2021 “Women Interrupted: An Exploration of the Lives of Selected Women Artists Represented in The University of Winnipeg Art Collection.” Her paintings are held in Canadian and international museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
- Media used
- Drawing
- Installation
- Painting
- Printmaking
- Sculpture
- Education
- University of Manitoba, 1968 - 1972 (under studied with Ivan Eyre)
- Private study, 1948 (under with Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (Hungary))
- Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, 1952
- Memberships
- Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1994
- Manitoba Society of Artists
- Manitoba Association of Women Artists
- File & Archive locations
- Art Gallery of Ontario - Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives
- Artexte Information Centre, QC - Documentation Centre
- London Public Library, ON
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts / Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
- Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, QC - Media Centre
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Vancouver Art Gallery, BC - Library
- University of Manitoba - Architecture and Fine Arts Library
- Winnipeg Art Gallery, MA - Clara Lander Library
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Caroline Dukes." Early European Artists Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University, 1998
http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/dukes.html - Amundson, Dale et al. Caroline Dukes: A Ten Year Survey Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg: Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba, 1983
- Andrews, Stephen et al. Autobiography. Edited by Laurel Reuter. North Dakota Museum of Art, 1996 Grand Forks, North Dakota: North Dakota Museum of Art, 1996
- Au, Aliana Yung, and Winnipeg Art Gallery. Occurrences : Four Manitoba Painters : Aliana Yung Au, Jill Brooks, Caroline Dukes, Celia Rabinovitch: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 8, 1981 to January 3, 1982 Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnpeg Art Gallery, 1982
- Barske, Katryna. Women Interrupted: An Exploration of the Lives of Selected Women Artists Represented in the University of Winnipeg Art Collection Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Winnipeg Art Collection, 2021
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/art-gallery/art-collection/women-interrupted.html - Dukes, Caroline et al. Caroline Dukes: Remember, Relate, Retell Winnipeg, Manitoba: Plug In Inc, 1996
- Enright, Robert. "A Walk Down Memory's Dark Corridor." The Globe and Mail, Aug 07, 2008: R1 07 Aug 2008: R1
- Genosko, Gary. "Caroline Dukes. Gallery ICO3. Winnipeg." Border Crossings 18.1 (1999): 67-68.
- Gillmor, Alison. "Caroline Dukes." Border Crossings, 27. 4 (Nov 2008) 95-96. Border Crossings 27.4 (Nov 2008): 95-96
- Heller, Jules and Nancy. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century New York: Garland, 1995
- Lang, Andrea. "Caroline Dukes - Mastering Transition." Artswest March 1982: cover, 20-23.
- Legge, Elizabeth, et al. Caroline Dukes: Concealed Memories Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2008
- Lerner, Loren. Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature Montreal, Quebec: Concordia University Press, 2002
- Lerner, Loren. "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Canadian Women Artists with Eastern European Connections and Postmodern Remembering." Canadian Ethnic Studies 31.3 (1999): 44
- Lovatt, T. “The Trellis of Memory: Recent Drawings by Caroline Dukes.” Border Crossings 10.1 (1991): 34-35.
- Madill, Shirley. “Territories of Desire: The Art of Caroline Dukes,” At the Focus of Forces Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1991
- Madill, Shirley et al. Contemporary Art in Manitoba: An Exhibition Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987
- Mazjels, Claudine. Cities: Caroline Dukes Winnipeg, Manitoba: Gallery IC03, University of Winnipeg, 1998
- McKinnon, Sarah M., et al. Cities : Caroline Dukes Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Winnipeg (Gallery ICO3), 1998
- Phillips, Carol A. Changes: 11 Artists Working on the Prairies Regina, Saskatchewan: Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1975
- Reid, Mary. Caroline Dukes: Concealed Memories Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2008.
- Robertson, Mari. Memories and Testimonies. Liliana Berezowsky, Marcel Braitstein, Eva Brandl, Caroline Dukes, Georges Dyens, Werner David Feist, Angela Grossmann, Sadko Hadzihasanović, Natalka Husar, Gershon Iskowitz Montreal: Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, 2002
- Tanchyk, Cynthia. "Feminist Art Practice in Manitoba." Arterra (May 1989): 6. Arterra May 1989: 6
- Tomlin, Fergus. "Headscapes: Recent Paintings by Caroline Dukes." Arts Magazine May/June 1976:33
- Wade, James. Feminist Art from Manitoba St. John's, Newfoundland: RCA Gallery, 1989
- Walsh, Meeka.. "Caroline Dukes building Light." Border Crossings 23.1 (2004): 68-74
- White, Laura. Winnipeg: Gallery 1CO3, 2013. Herstory: Art by Women in the University of Winnipeg Collection. Ed. Jennifer Gibson Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2013
- Winnipeg Art Gallery. Aspects of Manitoba Art: Jill Brooks, Betty Dimock, Janis Diner, Caroline Dukes, Milly Giesbrecht, Luella Levitt, Svitlana Muchin, Roderick Shiels, Ann Smith, Frank Zamkotowich Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1978
- Winnipeg Art Gallery. The Colour Connection : Caroline Dukes, Alex Cameron, David Barnett, Gordon Rayner, Howard Simkins Winnipeg, Manitoba: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1983
