ABSTRACT
German Expressionism and the Child Art
Movement in the Career of Wynona Mulcaster
Laura Lee Dale Heron
1995
Wynona Croft Mulcaster (b. 1915) became an
important figure in the art milieu of Saskatoon when she moved to that city in 1945. Her
work during the late forties and early fifties shows some influence of German
Expressionism, in both its style and its subjects. An investigation into the sources of
information available to her on art, from 1935 when she began her career as an artist, and
her correspondence with artists in Saskatoon, to 1955 when the Expressionist phase of her
work ended, reveals the interest of her milieu in modernism, during these two decades. The
modernism that she was interested in was very different from the Post-Painterly
Abstraction associated with the well-known Emma Lake Artists' Workshops that commenced in
1955. Her work as an art educator brought her into contact with the ideas of the Child Art
Movement, which shared many of the same premises as modernism. Because of these shared
premises, her careers as an art educator and as an artist reinforced each other.
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