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Illingworth Kerr

Illingworth Kerr was born in in Lumsden, Saskatchewan. He began drawing at an early age, with the encouragement of his mother. In , he had entered 14 of his works into the Regina Exhibition—and all of them won awards.

Kerr studied at the Ontario College of Art from to and at the Westminster School of Art in London, England in Throughout this time, he was creating the art that he would become best known for: landscape paintings of the prairies and foothills, guided by, as he described it, a desire to “look for the design elements in nature.” Over a career that spanned more than 60 years, Kerr's interest went beyond landscape painting to include ink, charcoal, linocuts, and portraits.

Kerr taught at the Vancouver School of Art in , and later spent 20 years as the Head of the Art Department at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, retiring in to pursue art full-time.

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