{{Short description|Canadian artist (1927–2023)}} {{other people}} {{Infobox artist | name = Dorothy Knowles | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|SOM|RCA|size=100%}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Dorothy Elsie Knowles | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|04|06|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Unity, Saskatchewan, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|05|16|1927|04|06}} | death_place = Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | movement = | spouse = William Perehudoff | awards = Order of Canada, Saskatchewan Order of Merit | patrons = | bgcolour = | imagesize = | ethnicity = | field = Painter | training = University of Saskatchewan, Goldsmith School of Art, Emma Lake Artists' Workshops | works = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = }}
'''Dorothy Elsie Knowles''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|SOM|RCA}} (April 6, 1927 – May 16, 2023) was a Canadian visual artist, most notable for her landscape paintings. She was the widow of William Perehudoff, a fellow artist who is closely associated with the Color Field movement.
Knowles died in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on May 16, 2023, at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fominoff |first1=Lara |title=Art community mourns passing of famed Saskatchewan artist Dorothy Knowles |url=https://www.ckom.com/2023/05/17/famed-saskatchewan-artist-dorothy-knowles-dead-at-age-96/ |access-date=17 May 2023 |publisher=CKOM |date=17 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/dorothy-perehudoff-obituary?id=51976476 |title=Dorothy Perehudoff |work=The Globe and Mail |via=Legacy.com |access-date=May 20, 2023}}</ref>
==Career== Knowles studied with Eli Bornstein at the University of Saskatchewan and she went on to study at the Goldsmith School of Art in London and Banff Centre. She was influenced by her studies at the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops.<ref name="Walrus " >{{cite web |last1=Henderson |first1=Lee |title=The Legacy of Saskatchewan's Most Controversial—and Impactful—Artist Program |url=https://thewalrus.ca/the-legacy-of-saskatchewans-most-controversial-and-impactful-artist-program/ |website=The Walrus |access-date=2 October 2023 |date=28 September 2023}}</ref> She is known for her often large perceptual landscape paintings<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilkin |first1=Karen |title=Dorothy Knowles: Qualities of Light |publisher=Heffel Auction House|url=https://issuu.com/heffel/docs/knowles_qualities_of_light?mode=embed&layout=http://skin.issuu.com/v/color/layout.xml&backgroundColor=00376E&showFlipBtn=true&logo=http://www.heffel.com/images/misc/heffel_issuu.gif&logoOffsetX=10&logoOffsetY=10 |access-date=31 August 2022}}</ref> and exhibitions of her work have been mounted across Canada and the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.sknac.ca/index.php?page=ArtistDetail&id=83 |title = Dorothy Knowles |accessdate = 2014-12-27 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141228094050/http://www.sknac.ca/index.php?page=ArtistDetail&id=83 |archive-date = 2014-12-28 |url-status = live }}</ref>
Knowles was appointed a Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (SOM) in 1987,<ref>{{cite web |title=Saskatchewan Order of Merit |url=https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/heritage-honours-and-awards/saskatchewan-order-of-merit#newest-recipients |website=Saskatchewan.ca |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref> and became a Member of the Order of Canada (CM) in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=9961&t=12&ln=Knowles |title = Order of Canada, Dorothy Knowles |accessdate = 2012-01-22 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204600/http://www.gg.ca/honour.aspx?id=9961&t=12&ln=Knowles |archive-date = 2016-03-04 |url-status = live }}</ref> She was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.<ref name=RCA1880 >{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref> In 2012, Knowles received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dorothy E. Knowles |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/126-103516 |website=Governor-General of Canada |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
Two postage stamps depicting paintings by Knowles, ''The Field of Rapeseed'' (1971) and ''North Saskatchewan River'' (1971) were issued by Canada Post on April 7, 2006.<ref>{{cite web|title=Art Canada: Dorothy Knowles|url=http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/archives/2006/2006_apr_dorothyknowles.jsf|publisher=Canada Post|accessdate=13 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017031339/http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/archives/2006/2006_apr_dorothyknowles.jsf|archive-date=17 October 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * Dorothy Knowles: Land Marks https://web.archive.org/web/20170203175809/http://www.mcmichael.com/exhibitions/dorothyknowles/past.cfm * VISUAL HEARTS: William Perehudoff and Dorothy Knowles, August 31, 2003. http://www.gallerieswest.ca/artists/previews/visual-hearts%3A-william-perehudoff-and-dorothy-knowles/ * MacKenzie Art Gallery. http://www.mackenzieartgallery.ca/engage/exhibitions/dorothy-knowles-watercolour-portraits-of-saskatchewan * Black, Lauren. "KNOWLES, DOROTHY (1927–)" http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/knowles_dorothy_1927-.html * {{imdb name|3570873}} * [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dorothy-elsie-knowles Article at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca]
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