She saw infinite possibilities in depicting Saskatchewan’s flowers, grasses and sweeping skies, and became one of the most prominent artists of her generation
She painted the Prairie. It was not the only subject the Saskatchewan artist Dorothy Knowles chose in her seven-decades-long career. But it was the one she returned to, its flowers and grasses and sweeping skies. “She could find endless new ways to see it,” her daughter Catherine Perehudoff Fowler says.
Prolific until her final days, Dorothy Elsie Knowles Perehudoff died in hospice in Saskatoon on May 16, following several months of declining health. She was 96. She had not intended to become an artist. The courses she took for her University of Saskatchewan Arts degree were mostly in health sciences. But out at Emma Lake in the summer of 1948, under the tutelage of the watercolourist Reta Cowley, she discovered she could paint.
Summers were spent at Emma Lake. Beginning in 1955, the university program where Ms. Knowles took her first art classes began hosting workshops that brought connections to New York artists, critics and galleries. “We kind of joked about it back then,” Mr. Christie says. “It was hard to get work done because there [were] so many people coming through town.” Most were coming to see Ms. Knowles, Mr. Perehudoff, or both, but they shared their connections around, more interested in promoting the work of others than their own.
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