[3] A monograph covering a ten-year retrospective of her work, Milly Ristvedt-Handerek: Paintings of a Decade, was published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 1979.
[4] In 2017, a second monograph was published by Oeno Gallery which included a survey of paintings from 1964 through to 2016, Milly Ristvedt, Colour and Meaning : an incomplete palette.
[2][3] In the book Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century, the art historian, Joan Murray writes of Ristvedt's technique of creating tension between vibrant borders and interior spaces of color fields, and "grid-like images frosted with color and texture.
In 2012, Ristvedt was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her service as Advocacy Representative for the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts .
[2][14] Ristvedt's work has been featured in over fifty solo exhibitions throughout Canada, including the Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec.