Milada Havelkova First Room

Dr. Milada Havelkova was born in the Czech Republic. She started her medical studies two years before the WWII, and after the Prague universities were closed by Germans, she spent five years as an assistant to an orthopedic surgeon. After the war, she graduated from medicine followed by training in neurology, and worked first in Prague and then in the northern part of Norway. She came to Canada with her 6-year old son in 1952 and for half-a-year washed dishes in a Sudbury restaurant until she got her Canadian medical licence. After a post-graduate course in psychiatry, she joined the Hospital for Sick Children with a particular interest in pre-school autistic and brain-damaged children. She began to paint only at the age of 68. She lived on the shore of Georgian Bay not far from Owen Sound. The ever changing view from her living room appears in many of her paintings. The photograph is from the winter of 2002 when, at the age of 84, she was still on cross-country skis every day. Milada Havelkova died January 18, 2005.

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KanArt Gallery foyer Havelkova Second Room