Late Winnipeg artist’s husband closing studio

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SEVEN years after her death, the husband of Winnipeg artist Caroline Dukes is closing her studio and dispersing her remaining art works.

“It is important to me that as many of her pieces as possible remain in this city which she loved so much,” said Alfred Dukes, now 86 and living in Toronto where his sons reside.

Caroline Dukes, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, was noted for her large-scale paintings best suited for institutional settings.

However, family friend Abe Anhang says the Dukes collection also consists of primary sketches and drawings, watercolours and etchings.

Dukes, who died of cancer at age 74, was honoured posthumously with a 2008 solo retrospective at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Her large piece Danube, about the treatment of Jews and other undesirables at the hands of the Nazis has been donated by a Winnipeg family to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

“Caroline adopted Winnipeg late in life, but she felt the city was the source of much of her inspiration,” Anhang said.

“She loved the ethnic diversity of the city, and marvelled that so many people of different backgrounds could live in peace together.”

Anyone interested in owning one of Caroline’s pieces can view them in her studio by appointment with Anhang, at 981-3486.