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.
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Trilliums (c. 1910), by Lily Osman Adams
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Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith
Molly Bobak
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920–2014) – painter[ 20]
Louis Boekhout (1919–2012) – Dutch Canadian landscape painter
Blanche Bolduc (1906/1907–1998) – Quebec painter, folk artist
David Bolduc (1945–2010) – painter
Eleanor Bond (born 1948) – painter, printmaker, and sculptor
Marion Bond (1903–1965) – painter
Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960) – painter[ 21]
Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945) – painter and textile artist
Sylvie Bouchard (born 1959) – painter
Céline Boucher (1945–) – painter, sculptor
Shary Boyle (1972–) – painter, sculptor, performance artist
Eva Theresa Bradshaw (1871–1938) – painter
Fritz Brandtner (1896–1969) – painter[ 22]
Claude Breeze (born 1938) – painter
Henrietta Hancock Britton (1873–1963) – painter
Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) – writer, painter, musician[ 23]
Annora Brown (1899–1987) – painter and graphic artist
Franklin Brownell (1856–1946) – painter, teacher
William Blair Bruce (1859–1906) – painter
Kittie Bruneau (1929–2021) – painter and printmaker
William Brymner (1855–1925) – figure and landscape painter[ 24]
Karin Bubaš (1976–) – painter, photographer
Della Burford (1946–) – painter, writer
Dennis Burton (1933–2013) – painter
Ralph Wallace Burton (1905–1983)[ 25]
Jack Bush (1909–1977) – abstract expressionist [ 26]
Sheila Butler (born 1940) – painter
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A. J. Casson
Sveva Caetani (1917–1994) – Italian-Canadian painter
Oscar Cahén (1916–1956) – painter, illustrator, member of Painters Eleven
Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (1923–2005) – painter, printmaker
Florence Carlyle (1864–1923) – figure and portrait painter
Franklin Carmichael (1890–1945) – painter; member of the Group of Seven
Emily Carr (1871–1945) – painter and writer
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 Group of Seven
Mabel Cawthra (1871–1943) – painter
Frederick Sproston Challener (1869–1959) – painter, muralist and teacher
Jack Chambers (1931–1978) – painter and filmmaker
Monique Charbonneau (1928–2014) – painter
Benjamin Chee Chee (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 (born 1928) – painter, sculptor and printmaker
Nora Collyer (1898–1979) – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Alex Colville (1920–2013) – painter
Charles Comfort (1900–1994) – painter, muralist, designer, educator
Edith Grace Coombs (1890–1986) – painter
Emily Coonan (1885–1971) – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Corno (1952–2016) – painter
Sonia Cornwall (1919–2006) – painter
Bruno Cote (1940–2010) – landscape painter
Graham Coughtry (1931–1999) – painter
Holly Coulis (born 1968) – painter
Rody Kenny Courtice (1891–1973) – painter
Linda Craddock (born 1952) – painter, photographer
Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922) – watercolour painter
William Cruikshank (1848–1922) – painter, teacher
Maurice Cullen (1866–1934) – Impressionist painter
Jane Catherine Cummins (1841–1893) – painter
Greg Curnoe (1937–1992) – painter, co-founder of CAR
Ruth Cuthand (1954–) – painter, printmaker, beader
Colleen Cutschall (born 1951) – Oglala-Sicangu Lakota multi-media artist, professor
Gertrude Spurr Cutts (1858–1941) – landscape painter
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Mary Dignam
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Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald
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Françoise Labbé (1933–2001) – painter
Stephen Lack (born 1946) – actor, painter
Artis Lane (1927–) – painter
Dawn Langstroth (1979–) – painter, singer, songwriter
Anne Langton (1804–1893) – painter
Jo Lechay – painter, dancer, choreographer
Ozias Leduc (1864–1955) – Quebec painter
Gary Lee-Nova (born 1943) – painter, multimedia artist
Jennifer Lefort (1976–) – painter
Joseph Légaré (1795–1855) – painter
Irène Legendre (1904–1992) – painter
Jean Paul Lemieux (1904–1990) – painter
Serge Lemoyne (1941–1998) – performance artist, painter
Rick Leong (born 1973) – painter, drawer
Rita Letendre (1928–2021) – painter, muralist
Marilyn Levine (1935–2005) – painter
Maud Lewis (1903–1970) – painter
Robert Henry Lindsay (1868–1938) – painter
Oleg Lipchenko (born 1957) – painter, graphic artist, illustrator
Arthur Lismer (1881–1969) – painter; member of the Group of Seven
Mabel Lockerby (1882–1976) – painter
Judith Lodge (born 1941) – painter, photographer
Joy Zemel Long (1922–2018) – painter
Marion Long (1882–1970) – painter
Michèle Lorrain (1960–) – painter, installation artist
Helen Lucas (1931–) – painter, writer
Alexandra Luke (1902–1967) – painter
Laura Muntz Lyall (1860–1930) – painter
John Goodwin Lyman (1886–1967)
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Anne Savage (1896–1971) – painter, art teacher; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Carl Schaefer (1903–1995) – painter, art teacher
Charlotte Schreiber (1834–1922) – English-Canadian painter, illustrator
Jacques Schyrgens (born 1923) – Belgian-Canadian painter of watercolors and illustrator
Marian Dale Scott (1906–1993) – painter
Mary Scott (1948–) – painter
Ethel Seath (1879–1963) – painter, art teacher; member of the Beaver Hall Group
Regina Seiden (1897–1991) – painter
Catherine Senitt (1945–) – painter
Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) – painter, naturalist, illustrator
Jack Shadbolt (1909–1998) – painter, war artist and teacher
Helen Parsons Shepherd (1923–2008) – painter
Arnold Shives (born 1943) – painter, multimedia artist, printmaker
Henrietta Shore (1880–1963) – painter
Edward Scrope Shrapnel (1845–1920) – painter
Ron Shuebrook (born 1943) – artist
Claude A. Simard (1943–2014) – painter
Elizabeth Simcoe (1763–1850) – Anglo-Canadian painter
Lorraine Simms (1956–) – painter
Ruby Slipperjack (1952–) – writer, painter
Paul Sloggett (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, teacher
Jean Smith (born 1959) – painter, musician, writer
Jori Smith (1907–2005) – painter
K. C. Smith (1924–2000) – painter, conservationist
Michael Snow (born 1929) – painter
Daniel Solomon (born 1945) – abstract painter and teacher
David G. Sorensen (1937–2011) – painter
Paul Soulikias (1926–2023) – painter
Doris Huestis Speirs (1894–1989) – ornithologist, painter
Owen Staples (1866–1949) – painter, etcher, political cartoonist
Godfrey Stephens (born 1939) – painter, sculptor
John Edmund Strandberg (1911–1996) – Swedish-Canadian painter
Leesa Streifler (1957–) – painter, professor
Philip Surrey (1910–1990) – painter
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté (1869–1937) – painter, sculptor
Magda Szabo (1934–) – painter
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See also
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