Terry Fenton (born July 1, 1940) has been a Canadian landscape painter since his retirement from arts administration positions. Fenton is the former director of the Edmonton Art Gallery (1972 - 1987), the A.C. Leighton Foundation, Calgary (1987 - 1993) and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (1993 - 1997). Fenton has also been an author, critic, and curator. A supporter of modernist art, he wrote on the work of artists Jack Bush, Anthony Caro, Peter Hide, Dorothy Knowles, Ken Macklin, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and William Perehudoff. Education Terry Fenton studied at Regina College's School of Fine Art from 1958–1960, continuing at the University of Regina (1965-1966). Fenton attended Emma Lake Artist's Workshops in Saskatchewan in 1965, 1967, and 1969. Painting The imagery in Terry Fenton's paintings focuses on the prairies of Saskatchewan. Fenton's paintings can be found in a number of collections, including the University of Lethbridge, Alberta; the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia. Writing Fenton's writing on art has touched on subjects both historical and contemporary, from essays on Fayum mummy portraits and Giovanni Bellini's St. Francis in Ecstasy, to articles on Morris Louis and Adolph Gottlieb. Fenton has written a number of books, including monographs on Dorothy Knowles, Reta Cowley, Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland, as well as his 2009 treatise on pictorial art, "About Pictures." [citation needed] References Living people 1940 births 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters Canadian landscape painters Canadian art critics Canadian art curators Directors of museums in Canada Artists from Regina, Saskatchewan 20th-century Canadian male artists