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Terry Fenton, former director of the Edmonton Art Gallery (1972 - 1987), the A.C. Leighton Foundation, Calgary (1987 - 1993) and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (1993 - 1997), has been a dedicated and accomplished landscape painter for over 30 years. His current paintings reflect a deep affection for the prairies, capturing the big skies and changing light of the Western Canadian landscape. In addition to numerous private and corporate collections in Canada the US and England, his work is represented in the collections of the Canada, Council Art Bank, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, the Edmonton Art Gallery and the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina. As well as galleries in Canada, Fenton is represented by Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas and Black & Greenberg Gallery, New York. |
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Education 1958-1960 School of Fine Art, Regina College 1960-1962 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, BA cum laude, English Literature 1965 Emma Lake Artists Workshop, led by Lawrence Alloway and John Cage 1965-1966 University of Regina, post-graduate studies in English Literature 1967 Emma Lake Artists Workshop, led by Frank Stella 1969 Emma Lake Artists Workshop, led by Michael Steiner Selected Solo Exhibitions 2006 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2005 Winchester Galleries, Victoria, British Columbia 2003 Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, British Columbia 2003 Mayberry Fine Art, Winnipeg 2002 The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre, Qualicum, British Columbia 2001 Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1999 Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1996 Bugera Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1995 Loading Bay Gallery, Calgary 1994 Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1994 Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1993 ‘Large Recent Paintings’, RXN Visions, Calgary 1993 ‘Recent Work’ Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1993 Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1991 Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1990 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1990 Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton 1989 Gallery on Whyte, Edmonton 1989 Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary 1987 Grand Forks Regional Art Gallery, Grand Forks, British Columbia 1986 Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary 1984 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1983 Gallery One, Toronto 1983 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton 1982 Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary 1981 Hett Gallery, Edmonton 1979 Hett Gallery, Edmonton Selected Group Exhibitions 2007 10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Old Schoolhouse Arts Centre, Qualicum, BC 2007 Group Exhibition, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto 2004 ‘A Wide Horizon’, Swift Current Art Gallery & Moose Jaw Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, catalogue introduction by Helen Marzolf 2003 ‘Regina Paintings’ Regina Public Library, Saskatchewan 1998 ‘Visiting Artists, LandScape 98’ Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1996 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1996 Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1995 Meredith Long Gallery, Houston 1995 Koffler Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York 1995 Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1993 Bugera/Kmet Gallery, Edmonton 1992 ‘Small Oils from Nature’, organized by Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1989 Group Drawing Exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery 1988 ‘Alberta Landscape Painters’, ACA Gallery, Calgary 1988 Summer Exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery 1988 Group Paint-In Exhibition, Leighton Foundation, Calgary 1985 Two-Person Exhibition, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York 1985 ‘Western Landscape Painters’, Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary 1982 ‘Three Edmonton Landscape Painters’, Virginia Christopher Gallery, Calgary 1982 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton 1981 Martin Gerard Gallery, Edmonton 1981 ‘Landscape Artists’ The Gallery, Art Placement, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1978 Two-Person Exhibition with Ron Myren, Canadian Galleries, Calgary 1970 Two-Person Exhibition with Dorothy Knowles, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library Selected Collections Private and corporate collections in Canada, USA, and England Alberta Foundation For The Arts Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Canada Council Art Bank Cameco Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Edmonton Art Gallery Kamloops Art Gallery Leighton Foundation, Calgary MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon Moose Jaw Art Museum Saskatchewan Arts Board University of Lethbridge University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Awards and Prizes 1988 Alberta Achievement Award Biography Reta Summers Cowley, Mendel Art Gallery and University of Calgary Press, 2006 Allan Safarik, When Light Falls From The Sun, winner of Saskatchewan Book Award, Poetry, 2005) five reproductions of Fenton paintings including cover. Anthony Caro: The Emma Lake Sculptures, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 2003 "Qu'appelle, Tales of Two Valleys", Border Crossings, Nov. 2002. Kenneth Noland, Themes and Variations, 1958-2000, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine; 2002 Appreciating Noland, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1991 A. C. Leighton in the Rockies, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, 1989. Anthony Caro, Ediciones Poligrapha, Barcelona, 1986; Thames and Hudson, London, 1986; Rizzoli, New York, 1986. Peter Hide in Canada, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1986. Dorothy Knowles: Paintings 1964-1982, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1983. Jules Olitski and the Tradition of Oil Painting, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1979. Modern Painting in Canada, (with Karen Wilkin), Hurtig, Edmonton, 1978. The Picture Book, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1978. The ABC of Sculpture, Edmonton, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1974. How to look at a Painting, Edmonton, The Edmonton Art Gallery, 1975. Abstraction West: Emma Lake and After, National Gallery of Canada, 1975. Jack Bush: A Retrospective, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975. Watercolour Painters from Saskatchewan, National Gallery of Canada, 1971. |
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