Kathleen Fenwick, (17 June 1901 – 28 September 1973) was

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of Prints and Drawings at the

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from 1929 until her retirement in 1968. She emigrated from the U.K. in 1928 to take up the assistant curator position but was quickly promoted. She had been educated at Goldsmith College of Art in London and the Academie Julian in Paris. She was the first female curator in Canada. In 1968, she was made an Officer of the

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for being "largely responsible for developing the collection into one of the finest of its kind."

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, Ottawa, Ontario. Canadian art curators Officers of the Order of Canada 1901 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian women historians 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian women curators British emigrants to Canada {{Canada-historian-stub