Available works:
K M Graham - "Northern Landscape" - ***SOLD***
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K M Graham, 1913 to 2008
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"I want my art to be an affirmation of life and to edify the spirit of the viewer."
Kathleen Margaret Graham was born in Hamilton in 1913. Educated at Trinity College, University of Toronto, Graham was well travelled and frequently visited local galleries developing her love of art.
After her marriage to Dr. Wallace Graham, in 1938, Graham spent the next several years raising their two children. It wasn’t until after the death of her husband that Kate started painting full time at the age of 50.
As a docent at the Art Gallery of Toronto, Graham had the opportunity to observe art on a regular basis and became especially interested in the works of Piet Mondrian and the American colour field painters. Encouraged by her friend Jack Bush, a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, Graham mounted her first exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, in 1967.
In 1971, she visited Cape Dorset, in the Canadian Arctic, which was the first of many trips to the north. Struck by the colour and light of the landscape of the Arctic and Newfoundland and Labrador, Graham's art evolved from close-up, highly abstract views of flowers and lily pads, to a wider focus on the topography of this region. In 1976, she became an artist in residence in Cape Dorset, going on to introduce acrylic paints to Inuit artists.
A member of the Royal Canadian Academy, Graham participated in several notable group exhibitions across North America and Europe including, "The Heritage of Jack Bush" at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (1981-82), and "Fourteen Canadians: A Critic's Choice," a series of works selected by critic Andrew Hudson to be shown at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1977).
Graham's work is held in private, corporate and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Collection, and the British Museum.
Having always been inspired by nature, Graham continued canoeing, swimming, writing, and painting until she was 92 years of age, when she died of Alzheimer’s disease.
Kathleen Margaret Graham was born in Hamilton in 1913. Educated at Trinity College, University of Toronto, Graham was well travelled and frequently visited local galleries developing her love of art.
After her marriage to Dr. Wallace Graham, in 1938, Graham spent the next several years raising their two children. It wasn’t until after the death of her husband that Kate started painting full time at the age of 50.
As a docent at the Art Gallery of Toronto, Graham had the opportunity to observe art on a regular basis and became especially interested in the works of Piet Mondrian and the American colour field painters. Encouraged by her friend Jack Bush, a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, Graham mounted her first exhibition at the Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, in 1967.
In 1971, she visited Cape Dorset, in the Canadian Arctic, which was the first of many trips to the north. Struck by the colour and light of the landscape of the Arctic and Newfoundland and Labrador, Graham's art evolved from close-up, highly abstract views of flowers and lily pads, to a wider focus on the topography of this region. In 1976, she became an artist in residence in Cape Dorset, going on to introduce acrylic paints to Inuit artists.
A member of the Royal Canadian Academy, Graham participated in several notable group exhibitions across North America and Europe including, "The Heritage of Jack Bush" at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa (1981-82), and "Fourteen Canadians: A Critic's Choice," a series of works selected by critic Andrew Hudson to be shown at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1977).
Graham's work is held in private, corporate and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Collection, and the British Museum.
Having always been inspired by nature, Graham continued canoeing, swimming, writing, and painting until she was 92 years of age, when she died of Alzheimer’s disease.