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Originally in 1936, when Gus Kenderdine directed the first Murray Point School of Art at Emma Lake the participants were art teachers. They came from all over Saskatchewan to learn how to teach art in schools. In the morning they were taught the History of Western Art by Gordon Snelgrove and instructed by Gus Kenderdine in the theory and practice of teaching art. In the afternoon, during sketching periods, they put into practice what they learned.

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''That's Saskatchewan'' by Wynona Mulcaster
1988
Saskatchewan, Canada

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Wynona Mulcaster (1915- ) was one of the first students at Emma Lake Art School and is known as a prairie landscape painter. 'Noni' (as she is called by her friends) was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1915 and she has become one of Canada's most accomplished painters. She received a Saskatchewan Arts Council Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Arts as well as a second Canada Council Award for a year of painting in Mexico. Also, she was elected to Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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''September Fields'' by Wynona Mulcaster
1985
Saskatchewan, Canada

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''Meeting'' by Wynona Mulcaster
2002

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Wynona Mulcaster's father was a lawyer in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He was a competent watercolourist, but it never occurred to his daughter that she too might have artistic ability. It wasn't until her father, as a member of the library board, contracted Ernest Lindner to come and teach a two-week art class, that Wynona made this discovery.
(Saskatoon StarPheonix, October 24th, 1988)

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''Three Horses'' by Wynona Mulcaster
2002

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Prior to the establishment of the Emma Lake Art School, Wynona Mulcaster was enrolled in Ernest Lindner's art class in 1932 which was held at the Prince Albert Library. She wanted to learn to draw a horse. She didn't paint a horse until fifteen years later.

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''Summer Sun'' by Wynona Mulcaster
1987
Saskatchewan, Canada

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In the summer of 1935, she persuaded Ernest Lindner to teach her art at Emma Lake, and in return she would do the cooking. That summer, she and her friend Bodil Brostrom von Degen (future wife of Ernest Lindner) helped build a cabin at Murray Point, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan.

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Wynona Mulcaster's landscape paintings reveal her as an artist whose origins are passionately rooted in the Saskatchewan prairie.

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Wynona Mulcaster on Prairie Artists
6 August 2005
Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

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"Of course I feel a connection to prairie artists and to the prairie itself. Which I, I, I'm very much a prairie girl myself and it tugs at my heart strings to come back, to the prairie. I love it. And I would still be living here if I hadn't had arthritis in my joints and needed a warmer climate for winter time. I enjoy the prairie artists, I have a great respect for them. I think they are really expressing the quality of the prairie."
- Wynona Mulcaster, July, 2005

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''Summer Pageant'' by Wynona Mulcaster
1983