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* Isabella Mary Abbott (1890–1955) artist * Lily Osman Adams (1865–1945)painter * Melita Aitken (1866–1945)artist * Aleen Aked (1907–2003)Canadian-American painter * Amelia Alcock-White (born 1981) * Wilhelmina Alexander (1871–1961)oil painter * David T. Alexander (born 1947)landscape painter * Libby Altwerger (1915–1995) painter and printmaker * Helen Andersen (1919–1995)painter * Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901)painter * Caroline Armington (1875–1939) painter and printmaker *

Shelagh Armstrong Shelagh Armstrong (born 1961) is a Canadian illustrator, and was the recipient of the 1985 Will Davies award for excellence in illustration.http://www.mint.ca/RoyalCanadianMintPublic/en-CA/Vancouver2010/Collect/Artists/default.htm - 12k Life and ...

(born 1961) illustrator * William Armstrong (1822–1914) landscape watercolourist * Silvia Araya (born 1930)Chilean-born Canadian painter * Caven Atkins (1907–2000) painter * William Edwin Atkinson (1862–1926)landscape painter * Joe Average (born 1957) * Leo Ayotte (1909–1976) oil painter * Philip Aziz (1923–2009) painter, sculptor

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Unity Bainbridge Unity Bainbridge (July 6, 1916 – November 30, 2017) was a Canadian artist and writer of poetry inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and its landscape. Personal life Unity Bainbridge was born in Victoria, British C ...

(1916–2017) – artist and poet * Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) American painter, printmaker and sculptor; raised in Canada * J. M. Barnsley (1861–1929)painter * Anne Meredith Barry (1932–2003) - painter * Robert Bateman (born 1930) naturalist and painter * Maxwell Bates (1906–1980) painter, architect * Valentina Battler (born 1946) – artist * Aba Bayefsky (1923–2001) painter * Anong Beam –

Ojibwe The Ojibwe, Ojibwa, Chippewa, or Saulteaux are an Anishinaabe people in what is currently southern Canada, the northern Midwestern United States, and Northern Plains. According to the U.S. census, in the United States Ojibwe people are one of ...

artist and curator * John William Beatty (1869–1941) – painter * François Beaucourt (1740–1794) painter * Claire Beaulieu (born 1955) – painter *

Noah Becker Noah Becker (born 1970) is an American and Canadian artist, writer, publisher of ''Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art'', and jazz saxophonist who lives and works in New York City. He is a contributing writer for ''Art in America'' Magazine, ' ...

(born 1970) – painter *

Christi Belcourt Christi Marlene Belcourt (born September 24, 1966) is a Métis visual artist and author living and working in Canada. She is best known for her acrylic paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwo ...

(born 1966) – Métis painter *

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (also known as F. M. Bell-Smith) (September 26, 1846 – June 23, 1923) was a Canadian landscape painter known for his works of the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range, Quebec and Maine. Early life Bell-Smith e ...

(1846–1923) – watercolour and oil landscape painter *

Arnold Belkin Arnold Belkin (December 9, 1930 – July 3, 1992) was a Canadian- Mexican painter credited for continuing the Mexican muralism tradition at a time when many Mexican painters were shifting away from it. Born and raised in western Canada, he ...

(1930–1992) Mexican painter; known as "the Canadian Son of Mexican muralism" * William Berczy (1744–1813) pioneer and painter * Rachel Berman (1946–2014) – American-born Canadian painter * Judith Berry (born 1961) – painter * George Théodore Berthon (1806–1892) portrait painter *

David Bierk David Charles Bierk (June 9, 1944 – August 28, 2002) was an American-Canadian realist painter known for working in the postmodern genre. Early life Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Glennon Bierk and Doris Ruth Steenson, Bierk moved with h ...

(1944–2002) American-born Canadian painter *

André Charles Biéler André Charles Biéler (8 October 1896 – 1 December 1989) was a Swiss-born Canadian painter and teacher. His work was modernist, at first with strong emphasis on line, later with more interest in light and colour. He is known for his genre pictu ...

(1896–1989) painter and teacher * Olive Biller (1879–1957) – artist and illustrator * B.C. Binning (1909–1976) painter, architect and teacher * Ron Bloore (1925–2009) painter, member of the Regina Five *

Bruno Bobak Bruno Bobak, LL.D., D.Litt (born Bronislaw Jacob Bobak; 27 December 1923 – 24 September 2012) was a Polish-born Canadian war painter and art teacher. His main medium was watercolour painting but he also produced woodcuts. Early years and war a ...

(1923–2012) Polish-born Canadian painter * Sylvie Bouchard (born 1959) - painter Molly Lamb Bobak painting

Molly Lamb Bobak Molly Lamb Bobak (née Lamb; February 25, 1920 – March 2, 2014) was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to docum ...

(1920–2014) painter * Blanche Bolduc (1906/1907–1998)folk artist *

Eleanor Bond Eleanor Bond (born 25 March 1948) is a Canadian multimedia artist and art educator who is best known for reworking the Canadian landscape tradition using a new ecological awareness. Early life Eleanor Bond was born in Winnipeg to pharmacist H ...

(born 1948) – painter, printmaker, and sculptor * Louis Boekhout (1919–2012) – Dutch Canadian landscape painter * Blanche Bolduc (1906/1907–1999) – Quebec painter *

David Bolduc David Bolduc (1945–2010) was an abstract artist who used colour and central imagery in his paintings, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush. Critics suggest that he and artists such as Daniel Solomon formed a bridge between the second and thi ...

(1945–2010) – abstract painter *

Paul-Émile Borduas Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 – February 22, 1960) was a Québecois artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Bor ...

(1905–1960)painter; known for his abstract paintings * Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945) – painter and textile artist * Eva Theresa Bradshaw (1871–1938)painter * Fritz Brandtner (1896–1969) modernist painter *

Claude Breeze Claude Breeze , also known as Claude Herbert Breeze, and sometimes as C. Herbert (born 1938) is a Canadian figurative painter, known for paintings with raw, unsettling imagery. He is a Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto, Ontario, C ...

(born 1938)modern figurative painter * Henrietta Hancock Britton (1873–1963) – painter * Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) writer, painter, musician, and one of the first Canadian abstract artists * Annora Brown (1899–1987) painter and graphic artist * Franklin Brownell (1856–1946) Impressionist painter, teacher * William Blair Bruce (1859–1906) Impressionist painter * Kittie Bruneau (1929–2021)painter and printmaker * William Brymner (1855–1925) figure and landscape painter * Dennis Burton (1933–2013) modernist painter * Ralph Wallace Burton (1905–1983) *

Jack Bush John Hamilton Bush (March 20, 1909 – January 24, 1977) was a Canadian abstract painter. A member of Painters Eleven, his paintings are associated with the Color Field movement and Post-painterly Abstraction. Inspired by Henri Ma ...

(1909–1977)

abstract expressionist Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

Sheila Butler Sheila Butler (born 1938) is an American-Canadian visual artist and retired professor, now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is a founding member of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the Sanavik Inuit Cooperative ...

(born 1940) painter

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* Sveva Caetani (1917–1994) – Italian-Canadian painter *

Oscar Cahén Oscar Cahén (sometimes spelled Oscar Cahen) (February 8, 1916 – November 26, 1956) was a Canadian painter and illustrator. Cahén is best known as a member of Painters Eleven, a group of abstract artists active in Toronto from 1953-1960, ...

(1916–1956)painter, illustrator, member of

Painters Eleven Painters Eleven (also known as Painters 11 or P11) was a group of abstract artists active in Canada between 1953 and 1960. They are associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. History Since the 1920s, artists in English Canada had been h ...

* Florence Carlyle (1864–1923) – figure and portrait painter *

Franklin Carmichael Franklin Carmichael (May 4, 1890 – October 24, 1945) was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other media to capture the Ontari ...

(1890–1945) painter; member of the

Group of Seven The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States; additionally, the European Union (EU) is a "non-enumerated member". It is officiall ...

Emily Carr Emily Carr (or M. Emily Carr as she sometimes signed her work) (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer who was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the painters in Canada to ado ...

(1871–1945) artist and writer; inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast * Barbara Caruso (1937–2009) – colour field painter, illustrator, printmaker, book designer * A. J. Casson (1898–1992) painter of landscapes, forests and farms; member of the

* Frederick Sproston Challener (1869–1959) painter, muralist and teacher * Jack Chambers (1931–1978) painter and filmmaker *

Benjamin Chee Chee Kenneth Thomas Chee Chee (26 March 1944 – 14 March 1977), known as Benjamin Chee Chee, was an Ojibwa Canadian artist born in Temagami, Ontario. Early life Chee Chee's early life was troubled and he lost track of his mother, for whom he spen ...

(1944–1977) Ojibwa painter * Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985) – painter and medical illustrator * Victor Child (1897–1960) newspaper illustrator, painter and etcher * Paraskeva Clark (1898–1986) painter * Alberta Cleland (1876–1960) landscape painter *

Pierre Clerk Pierre Clerk (born 1928) is a contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and sculpture. Life Clerk was born to Canadian parents in Atlanta, Georgia. He lived in Canada between 1932 and 1952. He studied fine arts at McGill University, Loy ...

(born 1928) – painter, sculptor and printmaker * Nora Collyer (1898–1979) – modernist painter; member of the

Beaver Hall Group The Beaver Hall Group refers to a Montreal-based group of Canadian painters who met in the late 1910s while studying art at a school run by the Art Association of Montreal. The Group is notable for its equal inclusion of men and women artists, as w ...

Alex Colville David Alexander Colville, LL. D. (24 August 1920 – 16 July 2013) was a painter and printmaker who continues to achieve both popular and critical success. Early life and war artist Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his ...

(1920–2013) painter *

Charles Comfort Charles Fraser Comfort, LL. D. (July 22, 1900 – July 5, 1994) was a Scotland-born Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator. Career and biography Early life Born near Edinburgh, Scotland, Comfort moved to Winnipeg in 1 ...

(1900-1994) painter, muralist, designer, educator * Emily Coonan (1885–1971) – post-impressionist painter; member of the

* Sonia Cornwall (1919–2006) – painter * Bruno Cote (1940–2010) landscape painter *

Graham Coughtry Graham Coughtry (June 6, 1931January 13, 1999), was a Canadian modernist figurative painter. Biography Coughtry was born in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, on June 8, 1931. He learned to paint at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School, then attended ...

(1931–1999) painter * Holly Coulis (born 1968) painter * Linda Craddock (born 1952)painter and photographer *

Sarah Lindley Crease Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922) was a Canadian artist. Born in England, as the daughter of botanist John Lindley, Crease studied art with Charles Fox and Sarah Ann Drake. Her early works were botanical illustrations for her father's pu ...

(1826–1922) – watercolour painter *

Rody Kenny Courtice Rody Kenny Courtice (born Roselyn Margaret Kenny; 1891–1973) was a modernist Canadian painter. She was associated with the Group of Seven early in her career, but later moved away into a more individual style. She was active in associations of ...

(1891–1973) – painter * William Cruikshank (painter) (1848–1922) painter, teacher * Maurice Cullen (1866–1934) Impressionist painter * Greg Curnoe (1937–1992) painter, co-founder of CAR *

Gertrude Spurr Cutts Gertrude Eleanor Spurr Cutts (1858–1941) was a Canadian artist. Career Born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, Gertrude Spurr began her career as an artist in England, exhibiting her work with the Royal Society of British Artists and the ...

(1858–1941) – landscape painter

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Caroline Louisa Daly Caroline Louisa Daly (1832–1893) was a Canadian artist born in Lower Canada, whose work is featured in one of eastern Canada's most prominent galleries, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Her watercol ...

(1832–1893) – watercolour painter * Kathleen Daly (1898–1994) painter *

Ken Danby Ken Danby, D.F.A. (6 March 1940 – 23 September 2007) was a Canadian painter. Danby is best known for creating highly realistic paintings that study everyday life. His 1972 painting '' At the Crease'', portraying a masked hockey goalie defe ...

(1940–2007) painter *

Charles Daudelin Charles Daudelin, (October 1, 1920 – April 2, 2001) was a French Canadian pioneer in modern sculpture and painting. He worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, metal and ceramic sculpture, jewelry, and marionettes which he m ...

(1920–2001) sculptor and painter *

Julia Dault Julia Dault (born 1977) is a Canadian artist. She is best known for her abstract paintings and Formica and Plexiglas sculptures. She lives and works in Toronto. Early life and education Dault was born in Toronto to Gary Michael Dault, an art cr ...

(born 1977) painter *

Forshaw Day Forshaw Day (1831–1903) was a Canadian artist known for his landscapes. Life and work Forshaw Day was born in London, England in 1831. He studied architecture and design at the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland in 1857. He studied archit ...

(1837–1903) painter and educator * Louis de Niverville (1933–2019) painter * Simone Dénéchaud (1905–1974) painter * Mary Dignam (1860–1938) painter; pioneer activist for women artists * Audrey Capel Doray (born 1931)multimedia artistHeller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (eds.) (2013). "Doray, Audrey Capel"
''North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary''
p. 160. Routledge * Marie-Denise Douyon (born 1961)painter and illustrator * Joseph Drapell (born 1940) abstract painter *

Moira Dryer Moira Dryer (1957–1992) was a Canadian artist known for her abstract paintings on wood panel. Early life and education Dryer was born in Toronto, Canada; her mother was architect Pegeen Synge and her father Douglas Dryer was a professor of phi ...

(1957–1992) – abstract painter * Ann Macintosh Duff (1925–2022) * Edmond Dyonnet (1859–1954)painter

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* Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896) portrait painter * Allan Edson (1846–1888)landscape painter * Harold Elliott (1890–1968) painter * Catherine Everett (born 1957)sculptor and painter * Peter Maxwell Ewart (1918–2001)landscape painter

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* Holly Farrell (born 1961) painter * Claire Fauteux (1889–1998) painter * Henriette Fauteux-Massé (1924–2005) painter * Marcelle Ferron (1924–2001) - painter * George Fertig (1915–1983) painter and photographer * Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890–1956)artist; member of the

* Lita Fontaine (born 1953) Indigenous multi-media painter * Dulcie Foo Fat (born 1946) painter * Nehemiah Ford (birth year unknown; died between 1858 and 1862)politician and painter * Michael Forster (artist) (1907–2002) painter *

Marc-Aurèle Fortin Marc-Aurèle Fortin (March 14, 1888 – March 2, 1970) was a Québécois painter. Career Marc-Aurèle Fortin was born in 1888 in Ste-Rose, Quebec, son of Thomas Fortin. He studied in Montreal under Ludger Larose and Edmond Dyonnet, then un ...

(1888–1970) painter *

Daniel Fowler Daniel Fowler (February 10, 1810 – September 14, 1894) was an English-born Canadian artist, writer and farmer. He is still considered one of Canada's finest artists working in watercolour. Biography The son of Daniel Fowler and Mary A ...

(1810–1894) watercolour painter *

John Arthur Fraser John Arthur Fraser (also known as John A. Fraser and J. A. Fraser) (9 January 1838 – 1 January 1898) was an English artist, photography entrepreneur and teacher. He undertook various paintings for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He is known for h ...

(1838–1898) painter

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* Clarence Gagnon (1881–1942) painter from Quebec, etcher * Yves Gaucher (1934–2000) painter, printmaker *

Robert Genn Robert Douglas Genn (May 15, 1936 – May 27, 2014) was a Canadian artist, who gained recognition for his style, which is in the tradition of Canadian landscape painting. He ran a painters' website, which sends out twice weekly newsletters to 13 ...

(1936–2014) painter * Sky Glabush (born 1970) painter * Eric Goldberg (1890–1969) Jewish-Canadian landscape painter * Regina Seiden Goldberg (18971–1991) - painter * Charles Goldhamer (1903–1985) watercolour painter *

Betty Goodwin Betty Roodish Goodwin, (March 19, 1923 – December 1, 2008) was a multidisciplinary Canadian artist who expressed the complexity of human experience through her work. Early life Goodwin was born in Montreal, the only child of Romanian imm ...

(19231–2008) - painter * Richard Gorman (1935–2010) painter and printmaker * Vaughan Grayson (1894–1995) painter and printmaker from Saskatchewan * Daniel Charles Grose (1832–1900) painter

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Alexandra Haeseker Alexandra Haeseker (born 1945) is a Dutch-born Canadian painter, print maker, and installation artist, based in Calgary, Alberta. She is a professor emerita at Alberta University of the Arts. Her works can be found in public collections in C ...

(born 1945) – painter, printmaker, installation artist * John Hall (born 1943) – painter * Joice M. Hall (born 1943) – painter * Kazuo Hamasaki (1925–2005)painter; Canadian Japanese watercolour painter noted for combining 16th-century Japanese techniques with Canadian styles * Mary Riter Hamilton (1873–1954)painter; female World War I artist, dubbed "Canada's first woman artist" * John A. Hammond (1843–1939) painter, photographer and printmaker *

Sylvia Hahn Sylvia Hahn (2 May 1911 – 2 January 2001) was a Canadian artist and head of the art department which is at the Royal Ontario Museum. Biography Born on May 2, 1911, in Toronto, Ontario, Sylvia Hahn was known for her uncanny mastery of many cra ...

(1911–2001) artist * Clara Isabella Harris (1887–1974) impressionist painter *

Lawren Harris Lawren Stewart Harris LL. D. (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter, best known as a leading member of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art and as a visionary in Canadian landscape art. ...

(1855–1970) painter; member of the

* Robert Harris (1848–1919) painter; noted for his portrait of the

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* Ted Harrison (1926–2015) painter * Monique Harvey (1950–2001) painter * Guenter Heim (1935–2014) impressionistic landscapes * Pierre Henry (born 1932) painter; creator of the ''anecdotism'' art movement *

Carle Hessay Hans Karl Hesse, known in later life as Carle Hessay (30 November 1911 - 1 January 1978),McMann 2003, p. 101.Hilmo, in Woods 2005, p. v. was a German-born Canadian painter. Although much remains uncertain of his early years, he immigrated to Cana ...

(1911–1978) painter *

Prudence Heward Prudence Heward (July 5, 1896 – March 19, 1947)Ferrari, Prudence. "Prudence Heward: Painting at Home." (2001). In ''Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century,'' S.A. Cook, L.R. McLean, and K. O'Rourke, eds. Montreal: Mc ...

(1896–1947) painter; member of the

Edwin Holgate Edwin Headley Holgate (August 19, 1892 – May 21, 1977), was a Canadians, Canadian artist, painter, muralist, and wood-cut artist. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where he both st ...

(1892–1977) artist, painter and engraver; member of the

* William Hope (1863–1931) – painter, war artist, landscapes *

Yvonne McKague Housser Yvonne McKague Housser, (1897–1996) was a Modernist Canadian painter, and a teacher. Early life and education Yvonne McKague was born in Toronto in 1897 to Hugh Henry McKague and Louise Elliott. She studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA) ...

(1898–1996) painter, teacher * Patrick Howlett (born 1971) – visual artist * E.J. Hughes (1913–2007) – painter * Natalka Husar (born 1951) – painter

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* Jay Isaac (born 1975) – painter *

Gershon Iskowitz Gershon Iskowitz (1919 – January 26, 1988) was a Canadian artist of Jewish background originally from Poland. Iskowitz was a Holocaust survivor of the Kielce Ghetto, who was liberated at Buchenwald. The circumstances of his early life—the ...

(1921–1988) painter

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A. Y. Jackson Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. (October 3, 1882April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing toget ...

(1882–1974) painter; founding member of the

Otto Reinhold Jacobi Otto Reinhold Jacobi (27 February 1812 8 February 1901) was a German-Canadian artist. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life and work Born in 1830 Königsberg, Jacobi studied in Berlin at the Royal Academy of Arts. He ...

(1812–1901) painter * Richard Jacobson (born 1959) artist and illustrator * Charles William Jefferys (1869–1951) painter, illustrator, author and teacher; known as a historical illustrator * Frank Johnston (1888–1949) artist; member of the

* Sarah Anne Johnson (born 1976) - painter *

John Young Johnstone John Young Johnstone (November12, 1887February13, 1930) was a Canadian Impressionist painter, known for his paintings of life in city, town or countryside, as well as for scenes of Montreal's Chinatown. Biography Johnstone is considered to b ...

(1887–1930) Impressionist painter * Leonel Jules (born 1953) painter

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Paul Kane Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Columbia District. A largely self-educated artis ...

(1810–1871)

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peoples in the Canadian West and the Native Americans in the Oregon Country * Andrew Kiss (born 1946) – oil painting, landscapes * Adrian Kleinbergen (born 1961) – drawing and painter * Bert Kloezeman (1921–1987) painter and art educator * Harold Klunder (born 1943) Dutch-born Canadian painter *

Dorothy Knowles Dorothy Elsie Knowles, (born April 6, 1927) is a Canadian artist, most notable for her landscape paintings. She is the widow of William Perehudoff, a fellow artist who is closely associated with the Color Field movement. Career Knowles studie ...

(born 1927) painter * F. McGillivray Knowles (1860–1932) painter * Wanda Koop (born 1951) - painter * Cornelius Krieghoff (1815–1872) painter of landscapes and outdoor life * Maya Kulenovic (born 1975) painter *

William Kurelek William Kurelek, (March 3, 1927 – November 3, 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer. His work was influenced by his childhood on the prairies, his Ukrainian-Canadian roots, his struggles with mental illness, and his conversion to Roman Catho ...

(1927–1977) artist and writer

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Stephen Lack Stephen Lack (born January 1, 1946) is a Canadian artist and former actor and screenwriter best known for his leading role in David Cronenberg's '' Scanners'' and Allan Moyle's '' The Rubber Gun'', for which he was nominated for two Genie Awards. ...

(born 1946) actor, painter * Ozias Leduc (1864–1955)

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painter of portraits, still lifes, landscapes and religious works * Gary Lee-Nova (born 1943) painter and multimedia artist *

Joseph Légaré Joseph Légaré (March 10, 1795 – June 21, 1855) was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. Early life The eldest son in a family of six children, Joseph Légaré was born in Quebec City, the son of ...

(1795–1855) painter * Irène Legendre (1904–1992) painter * Jean Paul Lemieux (1904–1990) painter *

Serge Lemoyne Serge Lemoyne (June 13, 1941 – July 12, 1998) was a Canadian artist from Quebec. He worked as a performance artist as well as creating paintings, assemblages and prints. Lemoyne explored themes such as the environment, technology, and socia ...

(1941–1998) performance artist and painter * Rick Leong (born 1973) – painting and drawing *

Rita Letendre Rita Letendre, LL. D. (November 1, 1928 – November 20, 2021) was a Canadian painter, muralist, and printmaker associated with Les Automatistes and the Plasticiens. She was an Officer of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Governor Gener ...

(1928–2021) painter, muralist *

Maud Lewis Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. She lived most of her life in poverty in a small house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She achieved national recognition in 1964 and 196 ...

(1903–1970) painter * Robert Henry Lindsay (1868–1938) painter *

Oleg Lipchenko Oleg Yurievich Lipchenko ( uk, Олег Юрійович Липченко; born 13 July 1957) is a Canadian artist and illustrator. He is a member of CANSCAIP.Arthur Lismer (1881–1969) painter; member of the

* Judith Lodge (born 1941) painter, photographer * Joy Zemel Long (1922–2018) - painter *

Laura Muntz Lyall Laura Muntz Lyall (June 18, 1860 – December 9, 1930) was a Canadian Impressionist painter, known for her sympathetic portrayal of women and children. Life and work Laura Adeline Muntz was born at Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Engla ...

(1860–1930) impressionist painter *

John Goodwin Lyman John Goodwin Lyman (September 29, 1886 – May 26, 1967) was an American-born Canadian modernist painter active largely in Montreal, Quebec. In the 1930s he did much to promote modern art in Canada, founding the Contemporary Art Society in 1939. ...

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* J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932) painter; member of the

Jock Macdonald James Williamson Galloway Macdonald (31 May 1897 – 3 December 1960), commonly known in his professional life as Jock Macdonald, was a member of Painters Eleven (Painters 11, or P11), whose goal was to promote abstract art in Canada. Macd ...

(1887–1960) painter; member of the

Landon Mackenzie Landon Mackenzie (born November 29, 1954) is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is nationally known for her large-format paintings and her contribution as a professor at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design (she i ...

(born 1954) painter * Clifford Maracle (1944–1996) – painter and sculptor *

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004), was an American abstract painter. Her work has been defined as an "essay in discretion on inward-ness and silence". Although she is often considered or referred to as a minimalist, Mart ...

(1912–2004) - painter * Arthur N. Martin (1889–1961) painter * Henrietta Mabel May (1877–1971) - painter; member of the

Doris McCarthy Doris McCarthy, LL. D. (July 7, 1910 – November 25, 2010) was a Canadian artist known for her abstracted landscapes. Life and career Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from 1926 to 1930, where she was award ...

(1910–2010) artist specializing in abstracted landscapes * Jean McEwen (1923–1999) abstract painter * Florence Helena McGillivray (1864–1938) landscape painter * Elizabeth McIntosh (born 1967) abstract painter * Arthur McKay (1926–2000) abstract painter *

(born 1954) - painter *

Isabel McLaughlin Isabel McLaughlin, (10 October 1903 - 26 November 2002) was a Modernist Canadian painter, patron and philanthropist. She specialized in landscapes and still life and had a strong interest in design. Biography Born in Oshawa, Ontario, McLaughl ...

(1903–2002) painter * Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904–1949) painter *

Thomas Mower Martin Thomas Mower Martin (1838–1934) was an English-born Canadian landscape painter dubbed "the father of Canadian art" Life and work Martin Marmaduke Matthews Marmaduke Matthews (29 August 1837 – 24 September 1913) was an English-Canadian painter, born in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England. Career Matthews studied watercolour painting at Oxford, England before moving to Toronto, Canada in 1860 to ...

(1837–1913) painter *

Ray Mead Ray Mead (1921–1998) was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter and a member of the artists group known as Painters Eleven. In his work, he often used a high horizon line as a structural element. Early life and career Born in Watford, Uni ...

(1921–1998)

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* John Meredith (1933–2000)abstract expressionist * Muriel Millard (1922–2014) painter * Kenneth G. Mills (1923–2004) painter * David Milne (1882–1953) painter, printmaker and writer * Lisa Milroy (born 1959) painter, especially of everyday items * Berge Missakian (1933–2017) painter * Janet Mitchell (1912–1998) painter * Guido Molinari (1933–2004) abstract painter * Caroline Monet (born 1985) - painter *

Kent Monkman Kent Monkman (born 13 November 1965) is a Canadian First Nations artist of Cree ancestry. He is a member of the Fisher River band situated in Manitoba's Interlake Region. He is both a visual as well as performance artist, working in a variety ...

(born 1965) First Nations painter * Ron Moppett (born 1945) painter *

James Wilson Morrice James Wilson Morrice (August 10, 1865 – January 23, 1924) was one of the first Canadian landscape painters to be known internationally. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris, France, where he lived for most of his career. James Morrice S ...

(1865–1924) landscape painter * Kathleen Moir Morris (1893–1986) painter; member of the

Norval Morrisseau Norval Morrisseau (March 14, 1932 – December 4, 2007), also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Indigenous Canadian artist from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation. Known as the "Picasso of the North", Morrisseau created works depic ...

(1932–2007) painter * Louis Muhlstock (1904–2001) – Jewish-Canadian painter *

Kathleen Munn Kathleen Jean Munn (1887– October 19, 1974) is recognized today as a pioneer of modern art in Canada, though she remained on the periphery of the Canadian art scene during her lifetime. She imagined conventional subjects in a radically new visu ...

(1887–1974) painter * Laura Muntz, see

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Tomori Nagamoto aka tomolennon is a self-taught visual artist, poet, and musician. Art Nagamoto's early work was often focused on urban figurative painting. His series of life-sized figurative portraits of dreaming girls entitled "Sleeping Beauty" was exhibited ...

(born 1973) – visual artist *

Kazuo Nakamura Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor (born Vancouver October 13, 1926; died Toronto April 9, 2002) and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s. Among the first major Japanese Canadian arti ...

(1926–2002) painter and member of

Lilias Torrance Newton Lilias Torrance Newton LL. D. (November 3, 1896 – January 10, 1980) was a Canadian painterBeaver Hall Group The Beaver Hall Group refers to a Montreal-based group of Canadian painters who met in the late 1910s while studying art at a school run by the Art Association of Montreal. The Group is notable for its equal inclusion of men and women artists, as w ...

* Jack Nichols (1921–2009) painter * Guity Novin (born 1944)

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* Lucius Richard O'Brien (1832–1899) painter * Daphne Odjig (1919–2016) - Indigenous painter, activist * Will Ogilvie (1901–1989) painter, war artist * Bobbie Oliver (born 1943) painter * Kim Ondaatje (born 1928) painter, photographer and documentary filmmaker * Toni Onley (1928–2004) landscape painter *

Henry Orenstein Henry Orenstein (born Henryk Orenstein; October 13, 1923 – December 14, 2021) was a Polish-born Jewish-American toymaker, professional poker player, entrepreneur and Holocaust survivor who resided in Verona, New Jersey. A survivor of five Na ...

(1918–2008) artist specializing in easel paintings, murals and set design

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* Alfred C. Patstone (1908–1999) romantic realist oil painter, rural *

Paul Peel Paul Peel (7 November 1860 – 3 October 1892) was a Canadians, Canadian figure painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime. Career ...

(1860–1892) painter * Eric Pehap (1912–1981) abstract artist *

Alfred Pellan Alfred Pellan (born Alfred Pelland; 16 May 1906 – 31 October 1988) was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting. Biography Alfred Pelland was born in Quebec City on 16 May 1906. His mother, Régina Damphousse, died when ...

(1906–1988) modern art pioneer, founder of Montreal art group known as Prisme d'yeux, rivals to Les Automatizes * Sophie Pemberton (1869–1959) painter * George Douglas Pepper (1903–1962) painter * William Perehudoff (1918–2013) painter * Christiane Pflug (1936–1972) German-born Canadian painter and draughtsperson * Bev Pike - painter *

Antoine Plamondon Antoine-Sébastien Plamondon ( – 1895) was an artist in Quebec, who painted mainly portraits and religious images, the latter commissioned primarily by churches in and around Quebec City. As a young man, he had traveled to France and studied ...

(1804–1895) painter * Joseph Plaskett (1918–2014) painter of interiors, still lifes and portraits *

Annie Pootoogook Annie Pootoogook (May 11, 1969 – September 19, 2016) was a Canadian Inuk artist known for her pen and coloured pencil drawings. In her art, Pootoogook often portrayed the experiences of those in her community of Kinngait (then known in English ...

(1969–2016) - painter * Alicia Popoff (1950–2015) abstract painter, acrylic and mixed media *

Christopher Pratt John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.Mary Pratt (1935–2018) painter specializing in still life paintings * Jon Pylypchuk (born 1972) painter and sculptor

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* Gordon Rayner (1935–2010) abstract expressionist *

George Agnew Reid George Agnew Reid (also known as G. A. Reid) (July 25, 1860 – August 23, 1947) was a Canadian artist, painter, influential educator and administrator. He is best known as a genre painter, but his work encompassed the mural, and genre, ...

(1860–1947) painter *

Mary Hiester Reid Mary Augusta Hiester Reid (10 April 1854 – 4 October 1921) was an American-born Canadian painter and teacher. She was best known as a painter of floral still lifes, some of them called "devastatingly expressive" by a contemporary author, and b ...

(1854–1921) painter * Mary Wrinch Reid (1877–1969) painter *

Jean-Paul Riopelle Jean-Paul Riopelle, (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. He had one of the longest and most important international careers of the sixteen signatories of the ''Refus Global'', the 1948 manif ...

(1923–2002) painter and sculptor from Quebec * Jim Robb (born 1933) - painter from the Yukon *

Goodridge Roberts William Goodridge Roberts (1904–1974) was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings, still lifes, figure paintings and interiors. He was also a teacher. Career Goodridge Roberts was the son of poet and novelist George Edward Theod ...

(1904–1974) painter of landscapes, unassuming still lifes and interiors *

Albert H. Robinson Albert Henry Robinson , also known as Albert H. Robinson and as A. H. Robinson (January 2, 1881 – September 7, 1956) was a Canadian landscape painter, an invited contributor to the first Group of Seven exhibition in 1920, as well as a founding ...

(1881–1956) painter * Otto Rogers (1935–2019) painter * Danièle Rochon (born 1946) painter from Quebec * Trisha Romance (born 1951) painter in Ontario * William Ronald (1926–1998) abstract painter and founder of

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* Anne Savage (1896–1971) painter, art teacher; member of the

* Carl Schaefer (artist) (1903–1995) painter, art teacher * Charlotte Schreiber (1834–1922) English-Canadian painter and illustrator * Jacques Schyrgens (born 1923) Belgian-Canadian painter of watercolors and illustrator *

Marian Dale Scott Marian Mildred Dale Scott (; 1906–1993) was a Canadian painter. Life She was born Marian Mildred Dale in Montreal on 26 June 1906.https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marian-mildred-dale-scott She showed talent at an early age: he ...

(1906–1993) painter * Regina Seiden (1897–1991) painter * Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) painter. naturalist, illustrator * Jack Shadbolt (1909–1998) painter, war artist and teacher *

Arnold Shives Arnold Shives (born December 27, 1943) is a Canadian multimedia artist and printmaker living in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Shives was childhood friends with the concrete poet Barrie Phillip Nichol. Nichol's exchanges with Shives in life ...

(born 1943) painter, multimedia artist and printmaker * Henrietta Shore (1880–1963) painter * Edward Scrope Shrapnel (1845–1920) painter * Ron Shuebrook (born 1943) – artist * Claude A. Simard (1943–2014) painter of garden scenes, landscapes, still lifes and the human figure *

Paul Sloggett Paul Sloggett (born 1950) is an abstract painter known for his use of geometric shapes and patterns in creating paintings and for his many teaching and administrative appointments at OCAD University, Toronto. Biography Sloggett was born in ...

(born 1950) painter and teacher * Edith Smith (1867–1954) painter and teacher * Freda Pemberton Smith (1902–1991) painter * Gordon A. Smith (1919–2020) painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher * K. C. Smith (1924–2000) painter, conservationist *

Michael Snow Michael Snow (born December 10, 1928) is a Canadian artist working in a range of media including film, installation, sculpture, photography, and music. His best-known films are '' Wavelength'' (1967) and '' La Région Centrale'' (1971), with the ...

(born 1929) painter *

Daniel Solomon Daniel Solomon (born 1945) is an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush and is a painter and professor in Drawing and Painting at OCAD Univer ...

(born 1945) abstract painter and teacher * David G. Sorensen (1937–2011) painter * Paul Soulikias (1926–2023) painter * Owen Staples (1866–1949) painter, etcher, political cartoonist * Godfrey Stephens (born 1939) painter, sculptor * John Edmund Strandberg (1911–1996) Swedish Canadian landscape painter *

Philip Surrey Philip Surrey LL. D. (1910-1990) was a Canadian artist known for his figurative scenes of Montreal. A founding member of the Contemporary Arts Society, and Montreal Men's Press Club (now Montreal Press Club), Surrey was part of Montreal’s cult ...

(1910–1990) painter *

Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (April 6, 1869 – January 29, 1937) was a French Canadian painter and sculptor. He was one of the first native-born Canadian artists whose works were directly influenced by French Impressionism and Post-Impre ...

(1869–1937) painter and sculptor

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Takao Tanabe Takao Tanabe, (born 16 September 1926) is a Canadian artist who painted abstractly for decades, but over time, his paintings became nature-based. Biography Born Takao Izumi in Seal Cove, today part of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, the son o ...

(born 1926) landscape painter * Daniel Taylor (born 1955) painter of realistic

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and wildlife art * David Thauberger (born 1948) painter *

Tom Thomson Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. During his short career, he produced roughly 400 oil sketches on small wood panels and approximately 50 larger works on canvas. His ...

(1877–1917) painter; mentor to the

* Mildred Valley Thornton (1890–1967) portrait painter of First Nations elders, landscape painter * Gideon Tomaschoff (born 1956) abstract artist *

Denyse Thomasos Denyse Thomasos (October 10, 1964 – July 19, 2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora. "''Hybrid Nations''" (2005) ...

(1964 - 2012) - painter * Gentile Tondino (1923–2001) artist and educator; taught with Arthur Lismer *

Jacques de Tonnancour Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour, LL. D. (3 January 1917 – 13 January 2005) was a Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec. Life and work Jacques Godefroy de Tonnancour was born on 3 January 1917 in Montreal, Quebec. He studied a ...

(1917–2005) artist and educator * Fernand Toupin (1930–2009)

abstractionist and member of the Plasticiens movement *

Harold Town Harold Barling Town, (June 13, 1924 – December 27, 1990) was a Canadian abstract painter. He is best known as a member of Painters Eleven a group of abstract artists active in Toronto from 1954-1960. Town coined the name of the ...

(1924–1990) artist and member of

* Cory Trépanier (born 1968) landscape painter and filmmaker

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Tony Urquhart Anthony Morse Urquhart, LL.D. (April 9, 1934 – January 26, 2022) was a Canadian painter. He was recognized in the late 1950s and early 1960s as one of Canada's pioneering abstractionists, having been variously linked with the Toronto painters ...

(1934–2022) painter and sculptor

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Armand Vaillancourt Armand J. R. Vaillancourt (born September 3, 1929) is a Canadian sculptor, painter and performance artist from Quebec. He is known for his public art fountain entitled Vaillancourt Fountain located in San Francisco. He lives in Montreal. Biogr ...

(born 1929) sculptor and painter * François Vaillancourt (born 1967) painter and art director * Florence Vale (1909–2003) painter influenced by Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism *

Frederick Varley Frederick Horsman Varley (January 2, 1881 – September 8, 1969) was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven. Career Early life Varley was born in Sheffield, England, in 1881, the son of Lucy (Barstow) and Samuel James Smith Varley the 7th. He ...

(1881–1969) painter, war artist; member of the

* James Verbicky (born 1973) mixed media, abstract artist * Frederick Arthur Verner (1836–1928) painter of First Nations and buffalo * Roy Henry Vickers (born 1946) First Nations painter

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* Horatio Walker (1858–1938)

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painter * Ronan Walsh (born 1958) – artist *

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(1869–1956) oils and watercolors painter * Lowrie Warrener (1900–1983) abstract painter *

Darrell Wasyk Darrell Wasyk (born 18 May 1958 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a Canadian film director. Biography Darrell Wasyk was born in Edmonton, Alberta. He worked extensively in both theatre and opera before making the transition to film. Film Making his fe ...

(born 1958) painter * Homer Watson (1855–1936) landscape painter * Vera Weatherbie (1909–1977) - painter * Barbara Weaver-Bosson (boen 1953) - painter * Diane Whitehouse (born 1940) - painter *

Joyce Wieland Joyce Wieland (June 30, 1930 – June 27, 1998) was a Canadian experimental filmmaker and mixed media artist. Wieland found success as a painter when she began her career in Toronto in the 1950s. In 1962, Wieland moved to New York City and ...

(1930–1998) filmmaker and painter * Chloe Wise (born 1990) - painter *

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(1907–1984)painter and muralist * Matthew Wong (1984–2019)painter

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* Walter Yarwood (1917–1996) abstract painter and member of

* M. A. Yewdale (1908–2000) – pioneer and heritage artist * Jinny Yu (born 1976)

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* Marguerite Porter Zwicker (1904–1993) – watercolors painter and art promoter

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* * Burnett, David and Schiff, Marilyn. ''Contemporary Canadian Art'' Edmonton, Hurtig Publishers, 1983. . * Duval, Paul. ''Four Decades: The Canadian Group of Painters and their contemporaries – 1930–1970'' Toronto, Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1972. * Duval, Paul. ''High Realism in Canada'' Toronto, Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1974. . * Fenton, Terry and Wilkin, Karen. ''Modern Painting In Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art'' Edmonton, Hurtig Publishers, 1978. . * Harper, Russell. ''Painting in Canada: A History 2nd ed.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981. * Lord, Barry. ''The History of Painting in Canada: Toward A People's Art'' Toronto, New Canada Publications, 1974. . * Morris, Jerrold. ''100 Years of Canadian Drawings'' Toronto, Methuen, 1980. . * * * Reid, Dennis ''A Concise History of Canadian Painting'' 2nd Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1988. . * {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Canadian Painters

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