Canadian Artist

FRANKLIN CARMICHAEL

Franklin Carmichael RCA (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 Ontario landscapes. 

Emily Carr

Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer who was inspired by the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.  The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a Canadian icon.

Lawren Harris

Lawren Stewart Harris CC 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.

A.Y. JACKSON

Alexander Young Jackson CC CMG RCA LL. D. (October 3, 1882 – April 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 together the artists of Montreal and Toronto.

 J. E. H. MACDONALD

James Edward Hervey MacDonald RCA (1873–1932) was an English-Canadian artist, best known as a member of the Group of Seven who asserted a distinct national identity combined with a common heritage stemming from early modernism in Europe in the early twentieth century.

Agnes Martin

Agnes Bernice Martin RCA (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”. 

Thomas John Thomson

Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century. 

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Jean-Paul Riopelle, CC GOQ RCA (October 7, 1923 – March 12, 2002) was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec. 

CORNELIUS KRIEGHOFF

Cornelius David Krieghoff (June 19, 1815 – March 5, 1872) was a Dutch-born Canadian-American painter of the 19th century.

MAUD LEWIS

Maud Kathleen Lewis (née Dowley; March 7, 1903 – July 30, 1970) was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. 

RAYMOND CHOW

RAYMOND CHOW is an internationally renowned artist from Vancouver, Canada. He is the designer of ArtDayze, with Peter Daniels.

TAKAO TANABE

Takao Tanabe, CM OBC RCA (born 16 September 1926) is a Canadian artist who painted abstractly for decades, but over time, his paintings became nature-based.

CANADA  CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

ANNA WEYANT

The hapless subjects of Anna Weyant’s indelible paintings and drawings are recurrently tested by everyday circumstances, weathering what the artist has described as “low-stakes trauma.”

Norman Denkman

Norman Denkman was a Vancouver artist who illustrated many familiar coastal sights and scenes, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s.

Donald Harvey

Donald Harvey was born in 1930 in Walthamston, Middlesex, England. After studies at the West Sussex College of Art and the Brighton College of Art, Harvey taught at an art college in Wales. He immigrated to Canada in 1950

Zhou Shixin

ZHOU Shixin is an artist born in 1923 and deceased in 2021. The artist’s works have gone up for sale at public auction 16 times, mostly in the Drawing-Watercolor category. The oldest auction recorded on our site is for the artwork vegetables presented in 2011 at Shanghai Hosane Auction Co., Ltd. (Drawing-Watercolor) and the most recent is for the artwork Landscape (扁舟訪友) presented in 2023 (Drawing-Watercolor).

Zhang Xiaolin

Canadian Chinese artist Zhang Xiaolin graduated from the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts and is a professional painter. Zhang Xiaolin’s view on art – Works of art are not the icing on the cake of life, nor are they the expression of certain personal feelings. 

Coral Ye Chen

Coral Ye Chen’s light-filled paintings, expressions of her love for the Divine, captivate hearts around the world.