List of Canadian painters

The following is an alphabetical list of professional Canadian painters, primarily working in fine art painting and drawing. See other articles for information on Canadian art or a List of Canadian artists for other information.

A

Isabella Mary Abbott artist
Una Stella Abrahamson – artist, writer
Lily Osman Adams painter
Marilla Adams – artist
Melita Aitken artist
Aleen Aked Canadian-American painter
Amelia Alcock-White – artist
David T. Alexander landscape painter
Lady Eveline Marie Alexander – painter
Wilhelmina Alexander oil painter
Libby Altwerger painter and printmaker
Helen Andersen painter
Marie-Elmina Anger painter
Danielle April
Silvia Araya Chilean-born Canadian painter
Caroline Armington painter and printmaker
Shelagh Armstrong illustrator
William Armstrong landscape watercolourist
Caven Atkins painter
William Edwin Atkinson landscape painter
Joe Average
Eruoma Awashish Atikamekw painter
Leo Ayotte oil painter
Philip Aziz painter, sculptor

B

Walter James Baber, - painter
Earl Bailly, – mouth-painter and polio-survivor
Unity Bainbridge – artist and poet
Anna P. Baker – painter
Joan Balzar – painter
Marian Bantjes – illustrator, designer, writer
J. M. Barnsley painter
Anne Meredith Barry painter
Earl W. Bascom American-Canadian painter, printmaker and sculptor
Robert Bateman naturalist and painter
Maxwell Bates painter, architect
Valentina Battler – artist
Aba Bayefsky painter
Fanny Wright Bayfield – illustrator
Anong Beam – Ojibwe artist and curator
John William Beatty – painter
François Beaucourt painter
Claire Beaulieu – painter
Beaver Hall Group
Noah Becker – painter
Christi Belcourt – Métis painter
Arnold Belkin Mexican-Canadian painter
Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith – watercolour and oil landscape painter
Lorraine Bénic – painter
William Berczy pioneer and painter
Rachel Berman – American-born Canadian painter
Judith Berry – painter
George Théodore Berthon portrait painter
André Charles Biéler painter and teacher
David Bierk American-born Canadian painter
Olive Biller – artist and illustrator
B.C. Binning painter, architect and teacher
Yulia Biriukova – painter
Ron Bloore painter, member of the Regina Five
Susanna Blunt – painter
Bruno Bobak Polish-born Canadian painter
Molly Lamb Bobak painter
Louis Boekhout – Dutch Canadian landscape painter
Blanche Bolduc Quebec painter, folk artist
David Bolduc – painter
Eleanor Bond – painter, printmaker, and sculptor
Marion Bond – painter
Paul-Émile Borduas painter
Simone Mary Bouchard – painter and textile artist
Sylvie Bouchard painter
Céline Boucher – painter, sculptor
Shary Boyle – painter, sculptor, performance artist
Eva Theresa Bradshaw painter
Fritz Brandtner painter
Claude Breeze painter
Henrietta Hancock Britton – painter
Bertram Brooker writer, painter, musician
Annora Brown painter and graphic artist
Franklin Brownell painter, teacher
William Blair Bruce painter
Kittie Bruneau painter and printmaker
William Brymner figure and landscape painter
Karin Bubaš – painter, photographer
Della Burford – painter, writer
Dennis Burton painter
Ralph Wallace Burton
Jack Bush abstract expressionist
Sheila Butler painter

C

Sveva Caetani – Italian-Canadian painter
Oscar Cahén painter, illustrator, member of Painters Eleven
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth – painter, printmaker
Florence Carlyle – figure and portrait painter
Franklin Carmichael painter; member of the Group of Seven
Emily Carr painter and writer
Barbara Caruso – colour field painter, illustrator, printmaker, book designer
A. J. Casson painter of landscapes, forests and farms; member of the Group of Seven
Mabel Cawthra – painter
Frederick Sproston Challener painter, muralist and teacher
Jack Chambers painter and filmmaker
Monique Charbonneau – painter
Benjamin Chee Chee Ojibwa painter
Nan Lawson Cheney – painter and medical illustrator
Victor Child newspaper illustrator, painter and etcher
Paraskeva Clark painter
Alberta Cleland landscape painter
Pierre Clerk – painter, sculptor and printmaker
Nora Collyer – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Alex Colville painter
Charles Comfort painter, muralist, designer, educator
Edith Grace Coombs – painter
Emily Coonan – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Corno – painter
Sonia Cornwall – painter
Bruno Cote landscape painter
Graham Coughtry painter
Holly Coulis painter
Rody Kenny Courtice – painter
Linda Craddock painter, photographer
Sarah Lindley Crease – watercolour painter
William Cruikshank painter, teacher
Maurice Cullen Impressionist painter
Jane Catherine Cummins – painter
Greg Curnoe painter, co-founder of CAR
Ruth Cuthand – painter, printmaker, beader
Colleen Cutschall – Oglala-Sicangu Lakota multi-media artist, professor
Gertrude Spurr Cutts – landscape painter

D

Caroline Louisa Daly – watercolour painter
Kathleen Daly painter
Ken Danby painter
Charles Daudelin sculptor and painter
Julia Dault painter
Karin Davie – painter
Sally Davies – painter, photographer
Forshaw Day painter and educator
Katherine Day – painter, printmaker
Mabel Killam Day – painter
Louis de Niverville painter
Simone Dénéchaud painter
Mary Dignam painter; activist for women artists
Melissa Doherty – painter
Eva Brook Donly – painter
Audrey Capel Doray multimedia artist
Julie Doucet – painter
Marie-Denise Douyon painter and illustrator
Joseph Drapell abstract painter
Moira Dryer – abstract painter
Ann Macintosh Duff
Delree Dumont – painter
Alma Duncan – painter, filmmaker
Edmond Dyonnet painter

E

Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake – painter
Wyatt Eaton portrait painter
Allan Edson landscape painter
Emily Louise Orr Elliott – painter and fashion illustrator
Harold Elliott painter
Kingmeata Etidlooie – painter, sculptor
Leya Evelyn – painter
Catherine Everett sculptor and painter
Peter Maxwell Ewart landscape painter

F

Lilias Farley – painter, sculptor, muralist
Caroline Farncomb – painter
Holly Farrell painter
Claire Fauteux painter
Henriette Fauteux-Massé painter
Holly Fay – painter
Lillian Prest Ferguson – painter
Marcelle Ferron painter
George Fertig painter and photographer
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald artist; member of the Group of Seven
Julie Flett – Indigenous painter, illustrator
Lita Fontaine Indigenous multi-media painter
Dulcie Foo Fat painter
Harriet Mary Ford – painter, muralist, jeweller
Nehemiah Ford painter, politician
Nita Forrest – painter
John Wycliffe Lowes Forster – painter
Michael Forster painter
Mina Forsyth – painter
Marc-Aurèle Fortin painter
Daniel Fowler watercolour painter
Hannah Franklin – painter, sculptor
Leanne Franson – illustrator, cartoonist
John Arthur Fraser – painter
Maida Parlow French – painter, writer

G

Clarence Gagnon painter, etcher
Marianna Gartner – painter
Yves Gaucher painter, printmaker
Alyne Gauthier-Charlebois – painter
Robert Genn painter
Lise Gervais – painter, sculptor
Sky Glabush painter
Eric Goldberg Jewish-Canadian painter
Regina Seiden Goldberg painter
Charles Goldhamer watercolour painter
Betty Goodwin painter, sculptor
Hortense Gordon – painter
Richard Gorman painter and printmaker
Pnina Granirer – painter
Vaughan Grayson painter and printmaker
Grimes – musician, painter
Daniel Charles Grose painter
Angela Grossmann – painter

H

Alexandra Haeseker – painter, printmaker, installation artist
Clara Hagarty – painter
Sylvia Hahn painter
Elizabeth Amherst Hale – painter
John Hall – painter
Joice M. Hall – painter
Kazuo Hamasaki Japanese-Canadian painter
Henrietta Hamilton – painter
Mary Riter Hamilton painter; World War I artist
John A. Hammond painter, photographer, printmaker
Clara Isabella Harris painter
Lawren Harris painter; member of the Group of Seven
Robert Harris painter
Ted Harrison painter
Monique Harvey painter
Iris Hauser – painter
Bobs Cogill Haworth – painter
Guenter Heim painter
Pierre Henry painter; anecdotism art movement
Carle Hessay painter
Prudence Heward painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Annie Hewlett – writer, painter
Gilah Yelin Hirsch – painter
Edwin Holgate painter, engraver; member of the Group of Seven
Margaret Lindsay Holton – painter
William Hope – painter, war artist
Yvonne McKague Housser painter, teacher
Barbara Howard – painter, engraver
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon – painter
Patrick Howlett – visual artist
E.J. Hughes – painter
Natalka Husar – painter

I

Jay Isaac – painter
Gershon Iskowitz painter

J

A. Y. Jackson painter; founding member of the Group of Seven
Otto Reinhold Jacobi painter
Richard Jacobson artist, illustrator
Sybil Henley Jacobson – painter
Lucy Jarvis – painter
Charles William Jefferys painter, illustrator, author, teacher
Sarah Anne Johnson painter
Frank Johnston artist; member of the Group of Seven
Gladys Johnston – painter
John Young Johnstone painter
Janet Jones – painter
Leonel Jules painter

K

Paul Kane Irish-Canadian painter
Gertrude Kearns – war artist
James Keirstead painter
Estelle Muriel Kerr – painter
Katja MacLeod Kessin – painter
Janet Kigusiuq – Inuit multidisciplinary artist
Alicia Killaly – painter
Ada Gladys Killins – painter
Ada Florence Kinton – painter, educator
Ann Kipling – painter
Andrew Kiss – painter
Bert Kloezeman painter and art educator
Harold Klunder Dutch-born Canadian painter
Dorothy Knowles painter
Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles – painter
F. McGillivray Knowles painter
Wanda Koop painter
Cornelius Krieghoff painter of landscapes and outdoor life
Maya Kulenovic painter
William Kurelek artist and writer

L

Françoise Labbé – painter
Stephen Lack actor, painter
Joy Laking – painter
Artis Lane – painter
Dawn Langstroth – painter, singer, songwriter
Anne Langton – painter
Jo Lechay – painter, dancer, choreographer
Ozias Leduc Quebec painter
Gary Lee-Nova painter, multimedia artist
Jennifer Lefort – painter
Joseph Légaré painter
Irène Legendre painter
Jean Paul Lemieux painter
Serge Lemoyne performance artist, painter
Rick Leong – painter, drawer
Rita Letendre painter, muralist
Marilyn Levine – painter
Maud Lewis painter
Robert Henry Lindsay painter
Oleg Lipchenko painter, graphic artist, illustrator
Arthur Lismer painter; member of the Group of Seven
Mabel Lockerby – painter
Judith Lodge painter, photographer
Joy Zemel Long painter
Marion Long – painter
Michèle Lorrain – painter, installation artist
Helen Lucas – painter, writer
Alexandra Luke – painter
Laura Muntz Lyall – painter
John Goodwin Lyman

M

J. E. H. MacDonald painter; member of the Group of Seven
Jock Macdonald painter; member of the Painters Eleven
Landon Mackenzie painter
Pegi Nicol MacLeod painter
Margaret Campbell Macpherson – painter
Christine Major – painter
Lorraine Malach – ceramicist, painter
Clifford Maracle – painter, sculptor
Jovette Marchessault – painter, writer
Agnes Martin painter
Arthur N. Martin painter
Thomas Mower Martin painter
Marmaduke Matthews painter
Henrietta Mabel May painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Doris McCarthy painter
Jean McEwen painter
Florence Helena McGillivray painter
Barbara McGivern – painter
Elizabeth McIntosh painter
Arthur McKay painter
Mary R. McKie – painter
Isabel McLaughlin painter
Fannie Knowling McNeil – painter, suffragist
Helen McNicoll – painter
Ray Mead painter; member of Painters Eleven
Sandra Meigs – painter
John Meredith painter
Muriel Millard painter
Kenneth G. Mills painter
David Milne painter, printmaker, writer
Lisa Milroy painter
Berge Missakian painter
Janet Mitchell painter
Guido Molinari painter
Caroline Monet painter
Kent Monkman First Nations painter
Belinda Montgomery – actress, painter
Shani Mootoo – painter
Ron Moppett painter
James Wilson Morrice landscape painter
Kathleen Morris – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Norval Morrisseau painter
Rita Mount – painter
Clara Mountcastle – painter
Louis Muhlstock – Jewish-Canadian painter
Kathleen Munn painter
Laura Muntz Lyall impressionist painter

N

Tomori Nagamoto – visual artist
Kazuo Nakamura painter and member of Painters Eleven
Melaw Nakehk’o – painter, filmmaker, actress, activist
Lilias Torrance Newton painter, member of the Beaver Hall Group
Jack Nichols painter
Marion Nicoll – painter
Shelley Niro – painter
Guity Novin Iranian-Canadian painter

O

Lucius Richard O'Brien painter
Daphne Odjig Indigenous painter, activist
Ethel Ogden – painter, educator
Will Ogilvie painter, war artist
Bobbie Oliver painter
Kim Ondaatje painter, photographer, filmmaker
Toni Onley painter
Henry Orenstein painter, muralist, set designer

P

P. K. Page – poet, painter
Alfred C. Patstone romantic realist oil painter, rural
Myfanwy Pavelic – painter
Paul Peel painter
Eric Pehap abstract artist
Alfred Pellan modern art pioneer, founder of Montreal art group known as Prisme d'yeux, rivals to Les Automatizes
Sophie Pemberton painter
George Douglas Pepper painter
William Perehudoff painter
Rae Perlin – painter
Vessna Perunovich – painter, sculptor
Llewellyn Petley-Jones – Anglo-Canadian painter
Christiane Pflug German-born Canadian painter, draughtsperson
Bev Pike painter
Antoine Plamondon painter
Joseph Plaskett painter
Jane Ash Poitras – painter
Annie Pootoogook painter
Alicia Popoff painter
Barbara Pratt – painter
Christopher Pratt painter, flag designer
Mary Pratt painter
Jon Pylypchuk painter, sculptor

R

Sherry Farrell Racette Metis painter, mixed media artist
Rosemary Radcliffe – actress, painter
Gordon Rayner painter
George Agnew Reid painter
Mary Hiester Reid painter
Mary Wrinch Reid painter
Jean-Paul Riopelle painter, sculptor
Jim Robb painter
Louise Robert – painter
Goodridge Roberts painter
Sarah Robertson – painter
Albert H. Robinson painter
Christine Roche – painter, illustrator, filmmaker
Danièle Rochon painter
Dorothea Rockburne – painter
Otto Rogers painter
Trisha Romance painter
William Ronald painter, founder of Painters Eleven
Hilda Katherine Ross – painter, potter, educator
Susan Ross – painter
Marina Roy – painter
Cheryl Ruddock – painter
Lorna Russell – painter

S

Anne Savage painter, art teacher; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Carl Schaefer painter, art teacher
Charlotte Schreiber English-Canadian painter, illustrator
Jacques Schyrgens Belgian-Canadian painter of watercolors and illustrator
Marian Dale Scott painter
Mary Scott – painter
Ethel Seath painter, art teacher; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Regina Seiden painter
Catherine Senitt – painter
Ernest Thompson Seton painter, naturalist, illustrator
Jack Shadbolt painter, war artist and teacher
Helen Parsons Shepherd – painter
Arnold Shives painter, multimedia artist, printmaker
Henrietta Shore painter
Edward Scrope Shrapnel painter
Ron Shuebrook – artist
Claude A. Simard painter
Elizabeth Simcoe – Anglo-Canadian painter
Lorraine Simms – painter
Ruby Slipperjack – writer, painter
Paul Sloggett painter and teacher
Edith Smith painter and teacher
Freda Pemberton Smith painter
Gordon A. Smith painter, printmaker, sculptor, teacher
Jean Smith painter, musician, writer
Jori Smith – painter
K. C. Smith painter, conservationist
Michael Snow painter
Daniel Solomon abstract painter and teacher
David G. Sorensen painter
Paul Soulikias painter
Doris Huestis Speirs – ornithologist, painter
Owen Staples painter, etcher, political cartoonist
Godfrey Stephens painter, sculptor
John Edmund Strandberg Swedish-Canadian painter
Leesa Streifler – painter, professor
Philip Surrey painter
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté painter, sculptor
Magda Szabo – painter

T

Sylvia Tait – painter
Takao Tanabe painter
Monica Tap – painter, professor
Daniel Taylor painter
David Thauberger painter
Denyse Thomasos painter
Tom Thomson painter; mentor to the Group of Seven
Mildred Valley Thornton painter
Gideon Tomaschoff artist
Gentile Tondino artist, educator
Jacques de Tonnancour artist, educator
Fernand Toupin painter, member of the Plasticiens
Harold Town painter, member of Painters Eleven
Cory Trépanier painter, filmmaker

U

Tony Urquhart painter and sculptor

V

Armand Vaillancourt sculptor, painter
Florence Vale painter
Frederick Varley painter, war artist; member of the Group of Seven
James Verbicky mixed media, painter
Frederick Arthur Verner painter
Roy Henry Vickers First Nations painter

W

Marion Wagschal – painter
Carol Wainio – painter
Horatio Walker painter
Ronan Walsh – artist
Emily Warren painter
Lowrie Warrener painter
Darrell Wasyk painter
Homer Watson painter
Vera Weatherbie painter
Barbara Weaver-Bosson painter
Robert R. Whale – painter
Diane Whitehouse painter
Joyce Wieland filmmaker, painter, mixed media
Shirley Wiitasalo – painter
York Wilson painter, muralist
Chloe Wise painter
Matthew Wong painter
Kamila Wozniakowska – painter
Mary E. Wrinch – painter

Y

Walter Yarwood abstract painter and member of Painters Eleven
M. A. Yewdale – pioneer and heritage artist
Jinny Yu

Z

Marguerite Porter Zwicker – watercolor painter and art promoter