Lorna Russell

Lorna Russell
Born
Lorna Muriel Russell

(1933-10-04)October 4, 1933
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
DiedJanuary 19, 2023(2023-01-19) (aged 89)
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
EducationUniversity of Saskatchewan
Known forwatercolourist, painter in gouache and oil, printmaker

Lorna Muriel Russell (October 4, 1933 – January 19, 2023) was a Canadian artist, known for her distinctive prairie landscapes in watercolor, guache, and oil that interpret her home province of Saskatchewan.[1]

Life and career

Lorna Russell Russell was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received a Bachelor of Science in 1956.[1] In 1968 she received her Professional "A" Teaching Certificate from the University of Saskatchewan.[1] She has participated in solo and group exhibitions. In 1981, she had a retrospective at the Shoestring Gallery.[2] In 1983, her drawings from 1980 to 1983 were exhibited at the Mendel Art Gallery.[3] Her work is represented in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa), MacKenzie Art Gallery (Regina), Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), Moose Jaw Art Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board, as well as elsewhere.[4]

Russell taught art education in public, elementary and high school in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from 1968 to 1970. Starting in 1968 (to 1972) she also worked as an art consultant for the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and Saskatchewan Society for Education Through Art. In 1971, Russell, along with Dorothy Boerma, Ann Newdigate, Jo Claire, and Betty Meyers, founded the Shoestring gallery which has since changed its name to A.K.A. gallery.[1][5] She worked as education officer with the Mendel Art Gallery from 1972 to 1976 and in 1976 she worked as an art instructor at the Muenster Art Program. After retiring from teaching, Russell continued to be involved with Saskatoon's art community, and in 2002, she returned to the University of Saskatchewan campus to lead a watercolour class through the university's Extension Division's Community Arts Program.[4]

Russell lived in Saskatoon, where she died on January 19, 2023, at the age of 89.[6]

Connections

Russell and her garden in Saskatoon were photographed by close friend and artist Honor Elizabeth Kever in Kever's photograph "Garden, 1989".[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Newman, Marketa, ed. (1990). Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Fifth House Publishers. pp. 217–220. ISBN 0-920079-66-0.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Lorna Russell. World Catalogue. OCLC 501093219. Retrieved 19 May 2022 – via www.worldcat.org.
  4. ^ a b "Lorna Russell". www.sknac.ca. Sasketchewan NAC. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
  5. ^ "About". akaartistrun.com. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  6. ^ "Lorna Russell (1933–2023)". Galleries West. 2 February 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
  7. ^ Crozier, Lorna; Greenville, Bruce (1989). Honor Kever: stations along the way. Saskatoon, Canada: Mendel Art Gallery. OCLC 24671922. Retrieved July 29, 2017.