Kathleen Munn

Kathleen Munn
Born
Kathleen Jean Munn

(1887-08-28)August 28, 1887
Toronto, Ontario
DiedOctober 19, 1974(1974-10-19) (aged 87)
Toronto, Ontario
EducationWestbourne School, Toronto with Farquhar McGillivray Knowles (1904); Art Students League in New York City and ASL summer school in Woodstock, New York (1912-late 1920s); Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts

Kathleen Jean Munn (1887– October 19, 1974) is recognized today as a pioneer of modern art in Canada, though she remained on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new visual vocabulary as she combined the traditions of European art with modern art studies in New York. She stopped painting about 1939[1] and when she died in 1974 at age 87, she was unaware that her long-held hope for "a possible future for my work" was about to become reality.[2]

  1. ^ Uhlyarik, Georgiana (2021). article, Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Movement. Kleinburg, Ontario: McMichael Canadian Art Collection. p. 75. Retrieved September 4, 2023.
  2. ^ Uhlyarik, Georgiana (2014). Kathleen Munn: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-0-9921483-6-2. Retrieved March 17, 2019.