Gus Kenderdine was born in Manchester, England in 1870. At 14 he was apprenticed to a Blackpool art dealer which resulted in early art instruction which, from ages 16 to 20, was complemented by part-time study at the Manchester School of Art. In 1890 he travelled to Paris to attend the Academie Julien, where he would study for approximately two years. Upon his return to England he would operate his own art gallery and studio.

In 1908 Kenderdine and his young family immigrated to Canada and settled on a homestead north of Lashburn, Saskatchewan where he would develop a ranching operation. Over time he would slowly resume painting and, during a 1920 visit to Saskatoon, he left two paintings in a physician’s office pr...