Dorothy Knowles is one of Canada’s most celebrated landscape painters. Acclaimed for bucolic prairie scenes inspired by French Impressionism, she was named a Member of the Order of Canada—one of the country’s highest civilian distinctions—in 2004. In 2006, Canada Post issued a series of postage stamps featuring two of her paintings. Knowles and her husband, color-field painter William Perehudoff, began attending the influential Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops in the 1950s. There she met influential critic Clement Greenberg, who encouraged her to paint from nature instead of pursuing abstraction, the popular style of the day. She grew so fond of the lake and its surroundings that she and Perehudoff purchased a cottage there in 1969. Using her van as a mobile studio, she worked outside and produced paintings and sketches that captured the wide expanses of Saskatchewan’s lush prairies and airy skies.

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