Canada 2006 Dorothy Knowles Art Souvenir Sheet
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There are many things about Dorothy Knowles' paintings that deliver a sense of awe and wonder, but perhaps none more so than their very scale – some as big as six by eight feet. Look at one of Knowles' landscapes and you can almost believe that she took a complete prairie landscape and dropped it, in its entirety, onto her canvas. Now, those distinctive prairie landscapes appear on a pair of stamps celebrating her artistry. As part of its ongoing Art Canada series, Canada Post has issued a domestic rate (51¢) stamp featuring Knowles' 1971 watercolour "The Field of Rapeseed," and a U.S. rate (89¢) stamp showing her 1989 oil painting "North Saskatchewan River." |
 "This series recognizes that postage stamps are ambassadors for Canada," says Alain Leduc, Manager of Stamp Design and Production at Canada Post. "Art is a wonderful way of representing our country internationally, but it also helps Canadians across the country gain a better understanding of each other."
Knowles' work is a case in point – her paintings have long been recognized as a unique response to the immensity and richness of life on the prairie. Designer Hélène L'Heureux was inspired by the distinctive colour tones of Knowles' "The Field of Rapeseed".
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"The design for the Art Canada series is unobtrusive, in order to make a case for the paintings. The asymmetrical borders of the stamp offer a contemporary look, while still focusing attention on the art," L'Heureux says. "When designing the souvenir sheet, however, I wanted to highlight the very bright colour palette this artist uses. |
 We chose her unique shades of saturated yellow and muted blue, and extended them across the souvenir sheet to suggest a vast landscape. The mosaic pattern was inspired by the mosaic made by adjacent farm fields – it's an abstract prairie landscape."
Both paintings are in the collections of the Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, and can be viewed online.
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$2.99 CDN
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