ALL: Master Collection List
Nationality
Canadian
Preview
Date of Work
2011
Medium
Encaustic on panel
Signature
on back
Height
24"
Width
18"
Depth
1 3/4"
Collection/Provenance
Purchased at the North Dakota Museum of Art in 2026 for the Art & Design Study Collection.
Status
Stored: R33
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Artist Bio
From the artist's website:
Tim Schouten is a painter well known for his mastery of the hot wax medium of encaustic. His practice probes the edges of landscape, language, history, and kinship. His work incorporates figuration, text, and abstraction as systems for discovery and disclosure. He lives and works as a settler on Treaty 1 Territory in Manitoba, Canada.
Schouten’s long-term ongoing project, The Treaty Suites, initiated in 2004, involves research and photography at all sites of signings and adhesions to the Numbered Treaties in Central Canada, with the goal of creating a series of paintings for each treaty. He is also known for his paintings of horses and dogs.
Schouten was born in Winnipeg and studied with Gordon Raynor, Graham Coughtry and Robert Markle at Art’s Sake Inc. in Toronto, 1978-80. His painting career spans four decades, and his work is held in numerous private, corporate, and public collections, including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, the Province of Manitoba, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Spirit Lake, N.D.
Schouten’s work was featured in an episode of the Grammy award winning TV series Landscape as Muse. He has attended residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop, McCanna House in North Dakota, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg and the Artbarn in Western Pennsylvania. Schouten has presented 13 solo exhibitions, participated in five two-person and over forty group exhibitions in Canada and the U.S. Select exhibitions include “Perspectives” with Robert Houle, curated by Patricia Bovey at Buhler Gallery, Winnipeg (2009), “aski nipay” with KC Adams at Gurevich Fine Art, Winnipeg (2016) and his recent solo exhibition, “The Treaty 5 Suite (Lost in Translation),” at the North Dakota Museum of Art (2022–23)
Additional Information
An abstracted landscape of Tokio, Spirit Lake, ND. There is a blue sky with small houses in the distance and a large patch of green grass and dirt in the foreground.
Condition
Very good
Rights
Images are provided for educational purposes only and may not be reproduced for commercial use. Images may be protected by artist copyright. A credit line is required to be used for any public non-commercial educational purpose. The credit line must include, “Image courtesy of the University of North Dakota.”