{{short description|Canadian artist}} '''Bonnie Jean Baxter''' (born 1946) is an American artist<ref name="MNBAQ"/><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swgl-BUcyR8C&q=bonnie+baxter+review|title=Who's Who in American Art: 1993-94|first=R. R. Bowker Company Database Publishing|last=Group|date=May 11, 1993|publisher=R.R. Bowker|isbn=9780835232746|via=Google Books}}</ref> (born in Texarkana, Texas). She studied art in Illinois (1965–1967) and Michigan (1967–1969) and came to Montreal, Canada, with her artist husband, Pierre Lemieux, in 1970.<ref>A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, volumes 1-8 by Colin S. MacDonald, and volume 9 (online only), by Anne Newlands and Judith Parker National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada</ref> She has lived in Canada since 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/10220/bonnie-baxter-laureate-du-prix-charles-biddle-2017|title=Bonnie Baxter | Lauréate du prix Charles-Biddle 2017|website=La Fabrique culturelle|access-date=2020-05-11|archive-date=2020-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921004336/https://www.lafabriqueculturelle.tv/capsules/10220/bonnie-baxter-laureate-du-prix-charles-biddle-2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReZkAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22bonnie+baxter%22+collection+artist&pg=PT191 |title = North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary|isbn = 9781135638894|last1 = Heller|first1 = Jules|last2 = Heller|first2 = Nancy G.|date = 19 December 2013| publisher=Routledge }}</ref> She was one of the first members of the [https://www.atelier.qc.ca/membres Atelier de l’Île] and created Atelier Le Scarabée. She printed for other Canadian artists such as Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle and René Derouin. Baxter is known for her artworks that combine animal and human forms.<ref name="LeDevoir">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/571414/spirit-matter-l-amie-des-betes|title="Spirit Matter": l'amie des bêtes|website=Le Devoir|date=25 January 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=in9MAAAAYAAJ&q=bonnie+baxter+animal |title = Contemporary Impressions: The Journal of the American Print Alliance|year = 2005}}</ref>
In 2017 she was awarded the prix Charles-Biddle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.quebecinterculturel.gouv.qc.ca/fr/prix-distinctions/charles-biddle/2017.html|title=MIFI - Prix Charles-Biddle|website=www.quebecinterculturel.gouv.qc.ca}}</ref> She also received the Prix Télé-Québec 2019 as part of the 11e BIECTR and the [https://www.jdc.quebec/2019/01/23/bonnie-baxter-a-latelier-de-lile/#:~:text=Rappelons%20que%20Mme%20Baxter%20est,Gilles%20Vigneault%20et%20Robert%20Charlebois Prix les grand Soleils (a Lifetime achievement award) in 2018]. In 2019 she was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides.<ref name="LeDevoir"/> Her work has been presented in Canada and internationally including solo exhibitions at Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides (MACLAU), the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery in Florida and Centre Clark in Montréal, Quebec.
==Collections== Baxter's work is included in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,<ref name="MNBAQ">{{Cite web|url=http://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600004340|title=Baxter, Bonnie|website=Collections | MNBAQ}}</ref> Bonnie Baxter is represented by the gallery [https://www.blouin-division.com/en/artists/bonnie-baxter Blouin | Division in Montréal Québec.] and the Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts.<ref name="IMOGA">{{cite web |title=Bonnie Baxter |url=https://www.imoga.org/en/collection/artists/bonnie-baxter |website=IMOGA Museum |access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>
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