Biographical Information
Luke Orton Lindoe ~ [1913-2000] Canadian ASA, CSPWC
Luke Lindoe was an influential Alberta artist, ceramicist, educator, and clay researcher whose life and career largely influenced the development of ceramics in Western Canada. Born in Bashaw, Alberta, Lindoe studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now Alberta University of the Arts) in the late 1930s, and later at the Ontario College of Art. Over the next twenty years Lindoe worked across ceramics, sculpture, painting, and public art, all while educating and developing his own distinctive modernist approach characterized by simplified forms and a deep sensitivity to materials and the prairie landscape.

Lindoe was an important teacher and mentor to generations of Alberta ceramic artists. He became the first ceramic instructor at the Art Institute (now AUArts) from 1947-1957. In his career, Lindoe completed thirteen large-scale architectural commissions; one such work featuring replications of Southern Alberta Petroglyphs which can be viewed at the Alberta Provincial Museum and Archives in Edmonton. Lindoe also painted scenes of the Alberta prairies with oils, as well as watercolour paints. In the early 1960s in Medicine Hat, he established Plainsman Clays and became widely respected for his knowledge of regional clay deposits, kilns, glazing, and firing techniques. Throughout his career, Lindoe continually experimented with locally sourced clays, vessel forms, glazes, and abstraction, leaving an enduring influence on Alberta ceramics and craft. See
Founders of the Alberta College of Art, by Valerie Greenfield, pg. 90, 1986;
Come Walk with Me: A Luke Lindoe Retrospective, by Linda Carney, published by Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery, 1992;
Luke Lindoe Retrospective, by Les Graff, published by Nickle Arts Museum, 1998;

biography and other examples in
Dictionary of Canadian Artists, by Colin MacDonald, Vol. 3, pg. 853;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by Anthony R. Westbridge, Vol. 2, pg. 123, Westbridge Publishing, 2000;

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]

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