Lorna Muriel Russell (born October 4, 1933) is a Canadian artist, known for her distinctive prairie landscapes in

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, and oil that interpret her home province of Saskatchewan.

Career

Lorna Russell Russell was born in

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and attended the

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where she received a Bachelor of Science in 1956. In 1968 she received her Professional "A" Teaching Certificate from the

. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions. In 1981, she had a

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at the Shoestring Gallery. In 1983, her drawings from 1980 to 1983 were exhibited at the

Mendel Art Gallery The Mendel Art Gallery was a major creative cultural centre in City Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Operating from 1964 to 2015, it housed a permanent collection of more than 7,500 works of art. The gallery was managed by the city-owned Saskatoon G ...

. Her work is represented in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank (Ottawa),

MacKenzie Art Gallery The MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG; french: Musee d’art MacKenzie) is an art museum located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The museum occupies the multipurpose T. C. Douglas Building, situated at the edge of the Wascana Centre. The building holds e ...

(Regina), Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon), Moose Jaw Art Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board, as well as elsewhere. Russell taught art education in public, elementary and high school in

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from 1968 to 1970. Starting in 1968 (to 1972) she also worked as an art consultant for the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation and Saskatchewan Society for Education Through Art. In 1971, Russell, along with Dorothy Boerma, Ann Newdigate, Jo Claire, and Betty Meyers, founded the Shoestring gallery which has since changed its name to A.K.A. gallery. She worked as education officer with the

from 1972 to 1976 and in 1976 she worked as an art instructor at the Muenster Art Program. After retiring from teaching, Russell continued to be involved with Saskatoon's art community, and in 2002, she returned to the

campus to lead a watercolour class through the university's Extension Division's Community Arts Program. She lives in Saskatoon.

Connections

She and her garden in Saskatoon were photographed by close friend and artist Honor Elizabeth Kever in Kever's photograph "Garden, 1989".

References

External links

''Art Placement''

''AKA Artist Run''
* Moppett, G., & Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon). (1983)
Lorna Russell: Drawings 1980-1983.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Lorna 20th-century Canadian women artists 20th-century Canadian artists 21st-century Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian artists 1933 births Living people University of Saskatchewan alumni Artists from Saskatoon