Kathleen Fenwick Explained

Kathleen Fenwick
Birth Date:17 June 1901
Birth Place:London, England
Known For:Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada from 1929 to 1968
Awards:Order of Canada

Kathleen Fenwick, (17 June 1901  - 28 September 1973)[1] was Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Canada 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 Order of Canada for being "largely responsible for developing the collection into one of the finest of its kind."[2]

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External links

Kathleen Fenwick fonds at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kathleen M. Fenwick . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220452/https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=1739 . March 3, 2016 . The National Gallery of Canada.
  2. Web site: Order of Canada: Kathleen Fenwick, O.C. . Governor General of Canada . https://web.archive.org/web/20070311013746/http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=1959 . March 11, 2007.