Reta Madeline Cowley

Canadian (1910 - 2004)

Reta Madeline Cowley was a Canadian artist.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Reta Madeline Cowley's estimated art value is C$3,000 (*)

Reta Madeline Cowley's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$1,000 - C$5,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an art work attributed to Reta Madeline Cowley (1910-2004) was C$4,250 - paid for "Untitled" at Hodgins in Calgary on Tue, Nov 24, 2009.
ArtValue.ca has 78 auction art sale records for their art results, with prices in the range of C$1,000 to C$5,000.

Saskatchewan NAC Auction House Biography and Notes

Reta Cowley, born 1910 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, worked exclusively as a teacher from 1930 to 1937, when she was urged by her sister to attend a summer art course at Emma Lake. Cowley studied painting with Augustus Kenderdine and art history with Gordon Snelgrove until 1940, and then moved on to the Banff School of Fine Arts in the 1940s and the University of Saskatchewan in the 1950s. Cowley had more than two dozen solo exhibitions of her watercolour landscapes and portraits, many of which she painted outdoors rather than in a studio. Her style - a combination of American modernism and British naturalism - has been compared to that of Walter J. Phillips and David Milne. Cowley continued to teach, including at Emma Lake and at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1990, she received the Saskatchewan Arts Board's Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. Cowley died in 2004.

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