“My life work, as an artist, has and will continue to focus on Western Canadian prairie cultural history”. Karen Brownlee
“Determined that (many of Karen’s paintings from her Rural Prairie Communities series) meets the criteria for ‘outstanding significance and national importance’, as set out in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act”.
The Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, in it’s Sept 20, 2010 meeting
A good number of Karen’s Rural Prairie Communities series watercolors are included in the exhibit “Recent Acquisitions”, in the Dr. Margaret (Marmie) Perkins Hess Gallery (Hess Gallery) from May 25 through to October 14, 2023.
Karen’s daughter Robyn (outrider on Pokey), and her father, Mike Hazuda (“Big Mike”)
driving John and Jack in the Whoop Up Parade, Lethbridge, 1991.
Photo by Karen Brownlee
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