Wynona Mulcaster

Wynona Croft Mulcaster
Born	10 April 1915 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died	25 August 2016 (aged 101) San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Painter and teacher
Known for	Landscape

Wynona Croft Mulcaster (10 April 1915 – 25 August 2016) was a Canadian painter and teacher from Saskatchewan, best known for her prairie landscapes. She also played an important role in developing competitive riding in Saskatoon.

Wynona ("Nonie") Croft Mulcaster was born on 10 April 1915 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She was interested in horses, and often made them the subjects of her early drawings. She was thirteen when she became owner of her first horse. In 1935 she rode in the prince Albert Horse Show.

Mulcaster died in August 2016 at the age of 101 at her ranch in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Mulcaster studied art under Ernest Lindner from 1935 to 1945. One of her motives was to learn how to draw horses. In 1942 she obtained a BA in Art and English from the University of Saskatchewan. She studied under Henry George Glyde and A. Y. Jackson at the Banff School of Fine Arts in 1946, and under Arthur Lismer at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design in 1947. Mulcaster participated in Emma Lake Artist's Workshops led by Joseph Plaskett, Will Barnet and Kenneth Noland. The Canada Council gave her a grant that let her visit major art galleries in Europe in 1958–59. In 1976 she was awarded a Master of Fine Arts at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

In the late 1930s, Mulcaster helped establish what would later become the Emma Lake Artist's Workshops, on Emma Lake in northern Saskatchewan. She was to attend workshops here from 1937 until 1993. Between 1937 and 1943 she taught art to school children in Prince Albert and rural Saskatchewan.

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