Wynona Croft Mulcaster was a Canadian painter and teacher from Saskatchewan, best known for her prairie landscapes.
22 Facts About Wynona Mulcaster
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Wynona Mulcaster played an important role in developing competitive riding in Saskatoon.
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Wynona Croft Mulcaster was born on 10 April 1915 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
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Wynona Mulcaster was interested in horses, and often made them the subjects of her early drawings.
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Wynona Mulcaster was thirteen when she became owner of her first horse.
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Wynona Mulcaster studied art under Ernest Lindner from 1935 to 1945.
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Wynona Mulcaster participated in Emma Lake Artist's Workshops led by Joseph Plaskett, Will Barnet and Kenneth Noland.
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Wynona Mulcaster was to attend workshops there from 1937 until 1993.
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Wynona Mulcaster became a teacher at the Saskatchewan Teachers' College in Saskatoon in 1943, and was Director of Art Education there from 1945 to 1948.
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Wynona Mulcaster helped establish the Canadian Society for Education through Art in 1955 in Quebec City.
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From 1964 until 1977 Wynona Mulcaster was Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Wynona Mulcaster said his paintings were marked by a personal realism, recording the people, landscape, and animals with restraint, freshness and honesty.
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In 1945 Wynona Mulcaster became the unpaid instructor at the Saskatoon Pony Club, where she taught until 1973.
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Wynona Mulcaster helped to get a pavilion built for the club on the Exhibition grounds, and managed to obtain noted guest instructors for riding clinics.
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Many riders were influenced by Wynona Mulcaster, including Valerie Johnson Matheson, who represented Canada at the Pan-American Games in 1967, and Cathy Wedge, who competed for Canada at the Pan-American Games in 1971 and the Olympic Games in 1976.
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Wynona Mulcaster was inducted into the Saskatoon Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
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Wynona Mulcaster works were mainly in acrylics on canvas or paper.
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Wynona Mulcaster is known for her prairie landscapes, which show the form and vitality of the land and the sky.
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Wynona Mulcaster was given a Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts by the Saskatchewan Arts Board in 1993.
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Wynona Mulcaster featured young landscape artists such as Mulcaster, Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles and abstract painters such as Henry Bonli who later became well known.
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Wynona Mulcaster's work is held in many public and private collections.
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Wynona Mulcaster's work has been shown in many solo exhibitions, including:.