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Saskatchewan and the Visual Arts
Saskatoon Collegiate Memorial Art Gallery
(now Nutana Collegiate)


Saskatoon Collegiate overlooking the South Saskatchewan River, ca. 1912. [37]

In 1919, following World War I, the students of the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute chose to commemorate the 29 fellow students who had sacrificed their lives in the Great War, by creating a memorial gallery of Canadian paintings. Under the supervision of Principals A.J. Pyke, then A.W. Cameron, Student Councils made the selection. Among the paintings and woodcuts are works by early pioneer artists such as Gus Kenderdine, James H. Henderson, and Inglis Sheldon-Williams. In 1921, the principal acquired additional loans from the National Gallery and Saskatoon collectors in order to organize the first art exhibition in the city of Saskatoon. The collection is now known as the Nutana Collegiate Memorial Art Gallery.



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