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Untitled (Cows on a Hillside), 1915-1916 is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Description
Untitled (Cows on a Hillside) is an oil on canvas painting, depicting Munn's landscape scenes with cows, which precedes her interest in experimenting with cubism. Her method of paint application signals Munn's serious investigation of modernism and exploration of painting for its own sake. These paintings are characterized by a pattern of flat rectangular patches of colour laid down to create a unified surface, but also the illusion of a sense of depth and three dimensionality. Although the landscape scene derives from traditional subject matter the visual vocabulary is rendered in a modern aesthetic. Munn's artistic vision is successful in synthesizing modern aesthetics with traditional subject matters.

Historical information
Kathleen Munn's artistic career spanned the first four decades of the 20th century, which is an era characterized as a comprehensive navigation through several related artistic developments in modern art. During her teenage years, Munn developed an interest in modern aesthetics and enrolled herself at the Art Student's League in New York and travelled to Europe. These decades in her life featured Munn's first important series of paintings of cows in landscapes. Due to pressing family obligations and limited critical response, Munn ceased to create art in 1939. Fred Housser described Munn as a:

"Practically a recluse who does imaginative compositions usually with figures ... she is probably the only painter in Canada whose canvases show an interest in Cubism."

Acquisition
Purchased with funds donated by Susan and Greg Latremoille, Toronto 2006.