KM Graham

Kathleen Margaret Graham RCA (1913 – 2008) yar wasan kwaikwayo ce ta ƙasar Kanada wacce aka sani don nuna launuka da tsarin da ta samu a yanayi. An san ta da zama mai zane-zane tana da shekaru 50, bayan mijinta, Dokta Wallace Graham, ya mutu a shekarar 1962.

 Ƙuruciya da ilimi 
An haifi Graham a Hamilton, Ontario, a cikin shekarar 1913.  Ta sauke karatu daga Kwalejin Trinity a Jami'ar Toronto tare da digiri a fannin tattalin arziki na gida a shekarar 1936.  Ba ta taɓa samun ilimi na tsarin gomnati ko horo a fannin zane-zane ba. 

 Aikin fasahar zane-zane 
Graham ta kasance docent a gidan kayan gargajiya a Art Gallery na Toronto, inda ta saba da ayyukan Piet Mondrian da masu zanen filin launi na Amurka. A lokacin tafiye-tafiye tare da mijinta, ta ziyarci wuraren zane-zane da gidajen tarihi, ta haɓaka ƙaunar fasaha.

Jack Bush ya ƙarfafashi yayi aikin fenti, Graham ta yi baje kolin zane-zane na farko a Toronto a shekarar 1967, a Carmen Lamanna Gallery.  A cikin shekarar 1971, bayan da ta ziyarci Cape Dorset a cikin Arctic na Kanada, ta mayar da hankalinta don nuna yanayin yankin. A cikin shekarar 1976, ta zama mai zane a ta yar cikin gida a Cape Dorset, ta cigaba da gabatar da fentin acrylic ga masu fasahar Inuit. Wata mai suka ta bayyana zane-zanen nata a matsayin "mai wasa, mai tsada, kuma mara fa'ida".

 Yabon Aiki 
Hotunan Graham wani ɓangare ne na tarin dindin din a National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, da Gidan Tarihi na Biritaniya. Wasikar da Graham ya yi na littattafai an mayar da ita zuwa tarin bincike na fasaha a cikin ɗakin karatu na John W. Graham a Kwalejin Triniti.

Graham memba ce ta Royal Canadian Academy of Arts kuma an baje koli tare da takwarorinta. Ta nuna aikinta a faɗin Arewacin Amurka da Turai. A cikin shekarar 1998, Graham ya zama ɗan'uwa mai daraja na Kwalejin Trinity.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Bayan aurenta da Dr. Wallace Graham, a cikin shekarar 1938, Graham ya shafe shekaru da dama yana renon 'ya'yansu biyu. Da yake a ko da yaushe tana samun wahayi daga yanayi, Graham ya ci gaba da kwale-kwale, iyo, rubuce-rubuce, da zane-zane har sai da ta kai shekaru 92. Graham ya mutu a ranar 26 ga Agusta, shekarar 2008, a Toronto, tana da shekaru 94 kuma tana fama da cutar Alzheimer.

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