{{Short description|Canadian artist (1929–2003)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox artist | name = Caroline Dukes | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|05|19}} | birth_place = Ujpest, Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|06|08|1929|05|19|mf=y}} | death_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | spouse = Alfred Dukes | field = | training = Studio of sculptor, Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl and the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Hungarian University of Fine Arts) (1951). She resumed her studies at the School of Art, University of Manitoba (graduated 1972) | movement = | works = ''Remember . . . Relate . . . Retell'' | patrons = | awards = | elected = Member, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1994) | known_for = painter; multimedia installation artist }} '''Caroline Dukes''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (May 19, 1929 – June 8, 2003) was a painter and installation artist, born in Hungary but moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1967. Today, she is considered a Manitoba artist.
==Career== Dukes was born in Ujpest, Hungary and apprenticed with sculptor, Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl in 1948 while taking night classes at the Free University. In 1952, she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Hungarian University of Fine Arts).<ref name="Keating " >{{cite web |last1=Keating |first1=Hanna |title=Caroline Dukes: Being There |url=https://umanitoba.ca/schools/art/media/Dukes_essay_-_H.Keating.pdf |website=umanitoba.ca |publisher=U Manitoba |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> In 1958, after a defeat of the Hungarian uprising against communism (1956), her family immigrated to Toronto. She moved to Winnipeg in 1967 and resumed her studies at the School of Art, University of Manitoba in 1968, studying with Ivan Eyre,<ref name="CCCA " >{{cite web |title=Caroline Dukes |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/Caroline_Dukes |website=ccca.concordia.ca |publisher=CCCA Canadian Art Database |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> and graduating in 1972.<ref name="library " >{{cite web |title=Caroline Dukes: An Inventory of Caroline Dukes Papers at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collection |url=https://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/complete_holdings/ead/html/dukes_c.shtml#tag_bioghist |website=umanitoba.ca |publisher=U Manitoba |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref>
Dukes' paintings were influenced by her experiences as a holocaust survivor and as a witness to communist cruelty in Hungary. Her paintings were organized in series: Nudes (early 1970s); Interiors; Landscapes; At the Focus of Forces (1989); Buildings (1991) (shown at Budapest's Vasarely Múzeum (1993));<ref name="worldcat " >{{cite web |title=Caroline Dukes|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98024162/|website=worldcat.org |publisher=World cataloging Identities |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> and Cities (1998). She created her most moving work ''Remember...Relate...Retell'' (multimedia work that included drawings, photographs, text, ready-made objects, video, audio, and constructions) in 1992, undergoing hypnosis to be able to recall memories of her own childhood and connections to her father, whose death when she was four<ref name="Keating " /> and then recent death of her mother were catalysts in the making of the work. The exhibition was shown at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; and at Plug In Inc. Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>{{cite web |title=Caroline Dukes |url=http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/dukes.html |website=art-history.concordia.ca |publisher=Concordia University, Montreal |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref>
Dukes showed her work in exhibitions across Canada and abroad, including group shows in Jerusalem, Munich and Barcelona. Her work is represented in major collections world-wide including the Budapest Museum of Fine Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Council Art Bank, Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, The Bronfman Collection and the Princess Anne Collection. In 1994, she was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref name="CCCA " />
In 1995, she became a founding member of SITE Gallery, Winnipeg’s first artist-run commercial cooperative exhibition space (1995–2005)<ref>{{cite web |title=Eva Stubbs |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/artist_info.html?languagePref=en&link_id=13734&artist=Eva+Stubbs |website=ccca.concordia.ca |publisher=CCCA Canadian Art Database |access-date=2021-12-03}}</ref> and in April 2003, two months before her death of cancer,<ref name="winnipegfree " >{{cite web |title=Late Winnipeg artist's husband closing studio |url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/arts/late-winnipeg-artists-husband-closing-studio-112995174.html |website=www.winnipegfreepress.com |publisher=Winnipeg Free Press, 2011 |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref> she completed an autobiographical work called ''Circus''. She died in Winnipeg on June 8, 2003.<ref name="library " />
==Legacy== In 2003, the Manitoba Artists for Women Art established the Caroline Dukes Legacy Fund which is administered by the Winnipeg Foundation.<ref name="library " /> She was honoured posthumously with a 2008 solo retrospective titled ''Caroline Dukes: concealed memories'' at the Winnipeg Art Gallery<ref name="winnipegfree " /> with a catalogue by Elizabeth Legge.<ref name="worldcat " /> In 2016, the University of Manitoba School of Art had a Dukes show titled ''Caroline Dukes: Being There''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Caroline Dukes: Being There |url=https://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/dukes_being_there.html |website=www.umanitoba.ca |publisher=U Man |access-date=2021-11-29}}</ref>
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==Bibliography== *{{cite book |last1=Legge |first1=Elizabeth |title=Caroline Dukes: concealed memories |date=2008 |publisher=Winnipeg Art Gallery |location=Winnipeg |url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/adukes%2C+caroline/adukes+caroline/1%2C1%2C4%2CB/frameset&FF=adukes+caroline+1929+2003&2%2C%2C4 |access-date=2021-11-29}}
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