Name Published on CWAHI Listed on CWAHI's private database Artist has physical file No file/ No information Years active Birth Death Medium Heritage Where lived/ Where Worked Where studied Associations Professional/Personal relationships worth noting Children and Family File Location Additional Sources Additional Notes
                  *language, minority status, parentage, immigration info, religious affiliation   RA (Royal Academy) (London); AAM (Art Association of Montreal); See Prakash List (CWAHI doc center) ARCA: Associate Memer of the Royal Academy of Art. RCA: Royal Canadian Academy of Art. OSA: Ontario Soceity of Artisits. WAA: Women's Art Association (Branch specified with city initial). WAAC: Women's Art Association of Canada. HASL: Hamilton Art Students League. SSC: Sculptors Society of Canada. CSPWC: Canadian Society of Painters in Water Color. FRSA: Fellow Royal Society of Arts (London). RSA:Royal Society of Artists SCPE: Society of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers. CGP: Canadian Group of Painters. HC: Helconian Club. CHG: Canadian Handicrafts Guild. RIPP: Royal Institute of Portrait Painters, (England). MSA: Manitoba Society of Artists     MMFA (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) ; AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) ;  NGC (National Gallery of Canada) ; MAC (Musée D'art Contemporain) ;  UBC (University of British Columbia) ;  Clara Lander (Clara Lander Library at the Winnipeg Art Gallery) ; CHIN: online resource "Artists in Canada" ; ArtTexte ; Arts Branch; Ellen Gallery (Ellen and Leonard Bina Gallery, Montreal, QC). U of C Library (University of Calgary Library). MCML (Manitoba Crafts Museum and Library) MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Miscellaneous Letter Files A - Z are available for consultation at the CWAHI Documentation Center.
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AARONS Anita     x         Architecture                  
ABBEY Wendy   x x         Architecture                  
ABBOTT Harriet A   x                              
ABBOTT Isabella Mary (Plummer) x x x     b.1890 - Montreal, QC d.1955 - unknown Painting: Oil, Watercolour British   Studied: AAM (William Brymner, Randolph Hewton) Member: CHG. Exhibited: AAM; RCA Sister: Phyllis Campbell Abbott Grandfather: Sir John Abbott (3rd Prime Minister of Canada). Uncle or Father: John Bethune Abbott (b.1851-d.1929, Landscape Painter). Sister: Phyllis Campbell Abbott (artist). Husband: Mr. Plummer (Married: 1929). Son: Christopher Plummer (the famous actor)   McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 192-93, 196, 201, 236, 244, 247, 278, 293. ;  Plummer, Christopher "In Spite of Myself: A Memoir" (Vintage Canada: 2008).  
ABBOTT Phyllis Campbell x x x     b.(?) - Senneville, QC d.1997 - St-Genevieve, QC Painting British     Exhibited: AAM; Society of Women Artists Sister: Isabella Abbott Grandfather: Sir John Abbott (3rd Prime Minister of Canada). Sister: Isabella Mary Abbott (Plummer)(artist).     She was engaged, but her fiance was killed in a car accident. Avid naturalist and athlete.
ABEL Ethel     x     b.1891 - (?) d. (?) Painting; Watercolour   Toronto, ON (1985)              
ABERDEEN Ishbel Maria Countess of (born Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks)     x     b.1857 d.1939 Painting               In Harper's p. 2: Mostly known as author and women's rights activist; In Harper's as: "amateur painter", "w. c. sketches in Canada".
ABRAHAM Mary (Mary Abram)       x   b.1880 - Chatham, ON d.1964 - Chatham, ON               CHIN    
ABRAHAMSON Una Stella (born Golding) x x x     b.1922 - London, England d.1999 - Toronto, ON Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1946. Ottawa, ON (1954)     Apprentice to Henri Masson (1907-1966) Husband: Roy Abrahamson     A noted home economist in canada and domestic historian for Chatelaine magazine. Wrote books on cooking/home economics etc…
ACER Anne Louise   x   x   b.1928                      
ACKERMAN Mollie Lillian     x     b.1905 - Russia d. (?) Fibres: Textiles Russian. Immigrated to Canada 1910 Toronto, ON (1967)              
ADAMS Annmarie     x         Architecture                  
ADAMS Barbara (See WILKES, Barbara)   x   x                          
ADAMS Florence (Mrs.)   x x     b.1892 - (?) d. (?) Painting       Member: Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (Founding Member)          
ADAMS J.M.F.   x   x                          
ADAMS Lily Osman x x x     b.1865 - Toronto, ON d.1945 - Toronto, ON Painting: China Painting, Watercolour; Drawing: Pastels     Studied: Studied at OCAD (J.W. Beatty), Columbia University (Arthur Dow), Art Student's League of New York (John Carlsen), University of Toronto (A.R. Coleman), St John's Wood Art School, Newlyn School of Art (England under Stanley Forbes). Private study with F McGillivray Knowles, Birge Harrison and Lucius O'Brien. Member: Women's Art Club Toronto. Exhibited: RCA (1904-36); Canadian National Exhibition (1907); OSA (1903-20) Exhibited with Minnie Kallmeyer.     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ADAMS Marilla x x x     b. 1864 - East Zorra, ON d. 1966 - Montreal, QC Fibres: Textiles, Weaving; Sculpture: Wood carving   Montreal (c.1914). Taught: Simpson College (IA, USA); Madrid, Spain Studied: Alma Ladies' College (St. Thomas); OSA; AAM; Paris (1912)           Taught wounded soldiers how to wood carve and weave in WWI
ADAMS Mary Kawennatakie x x x     b. 1917 - Akwesasne Indian Reserve, ON d. 1999 - Fort Covington, NY Fibres: Basket weaving, Textiles First Nations (Mohawk) Lived on reservations in Ontario, Quebec and New York State. Taught: Basket Weaving (Museum on the Mohawk, St Regis, Quebec)     In 1998, participated in "Crossing the Threshold," a group show also featuring Miriam Schapiro and Helen Frankenthaler. Married in 1934. Mother of 12 children.     Known for inventive basketry such as her "wedding cake basket." In 1980, she presented Pope John Paul a basket made specially to honour the beatification of the first Native American woman, Kateri Tekakwitha. In 1997, she received an "Excellence in Iroquois art" award.
ADAMSON Anna Hatfield       x Active c.1915-24                        
ADAMSON Mrs. Agar (born Mabel CAWTHRA) x x x     b. 1871 - Lucerne, Switzerland d. 1943 - Port Credit, ON Painting: Painting, Enamel; Sculpture: Metalwork, Jewelry making; Design: Interior design Swiss Opened up Toronto franchise of W & E Thornton-Smith Company (interior design firm) Studied: Charles Ashbee's Guild of Handicrafts in England (1905 - ?) Member: Arts and Crafts Society of Toronto (founding member); HC (founding member); Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (First President 1902).   Husband: Agar Adamson, Colonel of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Married: 1899) CHIN McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 107, 113, 129, 143, 144, 162, 269. Won several commissions to decorate Toronto theatres and churches.
ADSHEAD Irene Louise   x   x                          
AGETEES Irène     x   Active c. 1929     Painting French, French-Canadian, Quebecoise   Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts            
AHOLA Anne Josephine   x   x   b.1896                      
AHRENTZEN Sherry     x         Architecture                  
AITCHINSON Georgina     x     b.1871 - Ottawa, ON         Studied: Ottawa (F. Brownell) Member: Art Association of Ottawa          
AITKEN Margaret Walker       x   b.1919 d.1977 Painting; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: HB Beal Technical School (Mackie Cryderman); OCA (JW Beatty, John Alfsen) Member: CGP; CSPW; OSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
AITKEN Melita x x x   Active c. 1920-40 b.1866 - Drumbo, ON d.1945 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Oil painting, Watercolor European Exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, ON (1931), Royal Canadian Academy (1931-33), Art Association of Montreal Spring shows (1932-43), Salon des Artists Francais in Paris (1932-33); Solo exhibitions at the Victoria Art Gallery (1936) and Vancouver Art Gallery (1938) Studied: Art Institute of Chicago (John H. Vanderpoel); Private study in Toronto (Mary Ella Dignam) Member: BCSA (1918-1930); IACS; NAWA; Women's Art Club, Toronto; WAAC Toronto; AAM   Husband: Captain Aitken (Killed in WWI)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
AKED Aleen (Elizabeth Aleen) x x x     b.1907 - Kildwick, Yorkshire, England d.2003 - Toronto, ON Painting: still-life, portrait, landscape British. Immigrated to canada in 1910 (age 3) From 1929 - 1944 spent winters in Sarasota, FL, and summers in ON. Exhibited: Florida (USA); Candian National Exhibition; RCA; OSA Studied: OCAD (Arthur Lismer, FH Varley, JW Beatty); Ringling School of Art (Sarasota, FL); Other Studies: JEH MacDonald, AY Jackson, George Reid, Fred Haines, Yvonne McKague Housser, Emmanuel Hahn, Sydney March. Member: SSAL (President in 1942) Studied with: Doris McCarthy, Isabel
McLaughlin
    Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
AKULUKJUK Malaya (Malaiya; Malia; Kilapik) x x x     b. 1915 - Qikiqtat Camp, NU d. 1995 - Pangnirtung, NU Painting; Printmaking; Drawing; Sculpture; Fibres: Tapestry, Textiles, Wallhangings Inuit NU Studied: Nunavut           Revered as a shaman in the Pangnirtung community. 1974, she won a Design Award for a tapestry made from one of her drawings. In 1990, Dow Chemical Canada commissioned a series of prints by her. In 1995, the Pangnirtung Tapestry Studio issues tapestries of her last drawings to commemorate her lfe. Exhibited work internationally during her life.
ALAN Bea (Rose Beatrice Alan Bergeron O'loughlin)       x   b.1910 d.(?) Painting     Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Adam Sheriff Scott, Albert Cloutier) Member: LAS     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
ALASHUAK Alice/Aisa Qupiruary Alasua/Qupirqualuk/Koperqua/Koperqwalik   x x     b. 1919 - Povungnituk, QC   Sculpture; Printmaking Inuit                
ALBERY, Alice May Hardwick           b.1884 d.(?) Illustration                  
ALEXANDER Earla M       x   b.1916   Painting; Sculpture; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: Queen's University School of fine Arts (Kingston, Ontario) Member: PLS     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has review + biblio.
ALEXANDER Jill x   x         Architecture                  
ALEXANDER Lady Eveline Marie (born Mitchell)   x x   Active in Canada c. 1847-1851 b. 1821 (*1818) - Nantes, France d. 1906 - Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England Painting: Oil, Watercolour; Printmaking British   Studied: Royal Military Academy, under her father, the military drawing master, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Cornwallis Michell 1793-1851     Husband: Sir James Edward Alexander (Married: Cape of Good Hope, South Africa) - whom she accompanied to Canada. Mother of five children.   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). known for her Quebec and Ontario scenes
ALEXANDER Louise   x x     b. 1880 - Owen Sound, ON d. 1992 Painting     Studied: Winnipeg Art School; Chicago Art Institute Member: WSC, WAAC (Featured in the first exhibition c.1895 of WAAC (Winnipeg, MB) )          
ALEXANDER Wilhelmina (Mina) x x x     b. 1871 - Hamilton, ON d. 1962 - Hamilton, ON Painting   Hamilton, ON Studied: Hamilton Art School (S. John Ireland, John Sloane Gordon, Miss F. Howell); Private study (G. Horne Russel, RCA) Member: WAAC Hamilton (President 1925-27); AAM       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ALFRED Agnes   x x     b. 1890 - Village Island, BC d. 1992 Fibres: Basket making First Nations (Namalilakula Tribe of the Kwakwaka'wakw) BC Studied: British Columbia         Reid, Martine J. and Daisy Sewid-Smith "Paddling to Where I Stand: Agnes Alfred, Qwiqwasutinuxw Noblewoman" (UBC Press, 2004)  
ALFSEN Marion Scott (Mrs John Alfsen) x x   x   b.1902 d.1990 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald, JW Beatty) Member: HC   Husband: John Alfsen (Painter) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has review + biblio.
ALISON Alice Ayer x   x         Architecture                  
ALISON-WEEREKOON Kumaris     x         Architecture                  
ALLAMAND Jeanne-Charlotte Berczy (married name: Berczy)   x x     b. 1760 - Lausanne, Switzerland d. 1839 - Sainte Melanie, QC Painting: Watercolour; Drawing Swiss Florence, Italy; London, England; ON; Montreal, QC Studied: Private study in Switzerland under William Berczy     Husband: William Berczy   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ALLAN Ann Low   x   x                          
ALLAN Marguerite I. x x   x                          
ALLAN Marjorie L.     x   Active c. 1911-1931     Painting   Montreal, QC              
ALLAN Martha       x Active c.1935                        
ALLAN Mrs.   x   x                          
ALLAN Mrs M.T.   x   x                          
ALLARD Marie       x Active c.1964                        
ALLARD Ovila       x   b.1885 d.1945 Photography                  
ALLARDICE E.A.   x   x                          
ALLEN Lillian Beatrice   x x     b.1904 - Winnipeg, MB d.1995 - Victoria, BC Painting; Photography   Taught: University of Manitoba in the faculty of Agriculture and Home Economics in 1934. 1971 (retired as an Associate Professor)              
ALLISON Louise Muir   x   x                          
ALLPORT Margaret x     x   b.1918   Printmaking: Etching; Painting     Studied: OCA (John Alfsen, Nicholas Hornyanski, Emanuel Hahn, George Pepper and Carl Schaefer) Member: SCPE     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
ALTWERGER Libby Elizabeth Deborah Selznick   x   x   b.1915 d.1995 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Central Technical School (John Alfsen, Carl Schaefer); Private study (Charles Goldhamer, Jock MacDonald) Member: OSA, PDCC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has review + biblio.
AMESS Elizabeth   x   x   b.1915                      
AMIOT Louise     x         Architecture                  
ANDERSEN Helen (born Helen Severson McKay Anderson)   x x x c.1967 b.1919 - North Battleford, SK d.1995 - Saanichton, BC Painting British and Icelandic Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC; Saanich, BC; Iran Studied: under her father Dr. William Edmund Anderson; Vancouver Art School (Bob Davidson, John Koerner, Jacques de Tonnancour and Joe Plaskett) Member: FCA, VAC, Saanich Peninsula Arts and Crafts Society, Community Arts Council Friends of Jack Shadbolt, Bill Reid, Max Maynard Husband: Fritz Raabye Andersen (died 2005). N.B.  her married name Andersen (with an E) and her unmarried name Anderson (with an O) CHIN; http://helenandersen.ca/ Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has review + biblio.. Signed her name "Andy"
ANDERSON Barbara     x         Architecture                  
ANDERSON Helen Violet x   x     b.1882   Painting   Montreal, QC              
ANDERSON Louellea H   x   x                          
ANDERSON Mabel Garfield Fender   x       b.1896 - NS       Montreal, QC (1935)              
ANDERSON Marguerite Doernbach (Peggy)     x     b.1917 - Germantown, MD, USA     German ancestors Montreal, QC              
ANDERSON Marjorie W.   x   x                          
ANDERSON Millicent (see GORE Millicent)   x   x                          
ANDERSON Miss.   x   x                          
ANDERSON Morna I. MacLelland (Mrs. Norman McLelland)       x   b.1905   Sculpture: Jewelry Making; Painting     Studied: AAM (Adam Sherriff Scott); Halifax (Ruth Wainwright) Member: MAA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has review + biblio. Document in A file.
ANDRE Francoise Marise Sylvaine   x   x   b.1926                      
ANDREW Helen Kate (born Woods)     x     b.1856 - Ireland d.1939 - Victoria, BC Painting, Watercolour                  
ANDREW Isabelle   x       b.1915   Painting                  
ANDREWS A.S.   x   x                          
ANDREWS Doris Godfrey   x x     b.1885 - London/Brentford, England d. (?) - Toronto, ON Painting British   Studied: Cheltenham College, England; Bournemouth Art School, England; Nottingham Art School, England Member: Society of Miniaturists, Picadilly, London, England.          
ANDREWS Isabelle   x   x                          
ANDREWS Sybil (married name: Mrs. Walter Morgan) x x x     b.1898 - Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England d.1992 - Victoria, BC Painting: Oil, Watercolour; Printmaking: Linocut British London, England; BC Studied: Heatherley Art School (1922), London (Henry G. Massey); Grosvenor School of Fine Art, London (Claude Flight)     Husband: Walter Morgan (Married: 1943)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). Between 1929 and 1937 she produced a series of posters (in collaboration with Cyril Power) under the pseudonym "Andrew Power." In 1991, Andrews donated 575 works of art, including oils, watercolours,
 drawings, woodcuts, and drypoints, to the Glenbow Museum.
ANGES La Mère Des       x       Painting?                 ? There is a soeur Guy des Anges on CHIN. Painter. Lived in Québec (city??) in 1972.
ANGLISS Kay (Katherine Margaret Angliss) x x x     b.1923 - Port Coquitlam, BC d.2004 Printmaking: Serigraph and relief printing (embossing?); Painting: Watercolour; Fibres: Textiles   Taught: Allied Arts Centre (Calgary, AB) (1960-74); Alberta College of Art (1965-1980) Studied: (1942 - 1946) Vancouver School of Art  (Fred Amess); Emma Lake - University of Saskatchewan Art School; U of C; ACAD (Deli Sacilotto) Member: ASA (1976) Friends with: Deli Sacilotto, Shane Weare, Andre Stasik, and Carol Summers Husband: George Angliss      
ANGRNAQQUAQ Elizabeth   x x     b.1916 d.2003 Fibres: Textiles Inuit                
ANGUS Lucy x   x     b. 1871 - Eccles, Lancashire d. 1948 - Victoria, BC Painting British                
ANGUTITOK Irene Kataq x x x     b. 1914 - Bathurst Inlet, NU d. 1971 - Repulse Bay, NU Sculpture Inuit                
ANINGMIUQ Alashua   x x     b. 1914 - Kingnait, NU d. 1972 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Printmaking Inuit                
ANTANOPOLIS Mary x   x         Architecture                  
ANTHONY Marilyn x   x         Architecture                  
ANTONOVICH Kateryna     x     b. 1887 - Chakov, Ukraine d. 1975 Painting Ukrainian                
APAWAKAK Mary     x     b. 1898 d. 1962   Inuit                
APTER Sonia (Sonya)   x   x   b.1906 - New York, NY, USA   Painting Came to Canada 1913. In Montreal in 1940 Montreal, QC (1940)              
ARBOUR Madeleine   x x     b.1923                      
ARBUCKLE Frances Anne (see JOHNSTON)     x                            
ARCHAMBAULT Francoise x x   x                          
ARCHIBALD Edith Thurston   x   x                          
ARCHIBALD Mary   x   x                          
ARCHIBALD Mrs. J.S.   x   x                          
ARGUE Gladys       x active c.1925                        
ARMINGTON Caroline Helena (born Caroline Helena Wilkinson)   x x     b.1875 - Brampton, ON d.1939 - New York, NY, USA Printmaking: Etching; Painting     Studied: Toronto (JWL Forster); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris; Academie Julian, Paris (Henri Royer, E. Schommer and Paul Gervais) Member: Société de la gravure originale en noir (Paris), PCSM   Husband: Frank M Armington (Painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ARMOUR Ellen       x Active c.1922                        
ARMOUR Eliza x     x                          
ARMOUR Phyllis (Mrs Hertzberg, Phyllis Hertzberg, Phyllis Armour Hertzberg)   x       b.1885 - Toronto, ON d.1975 - Port Hope, ON Painting; Drawing; Printmaking: Etching               Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ARMSTRONG Ellen   x x     b.1879 - Belfast, Northern Ireland d.1963 - Edmonton, AB Painting Irish                
ARMSTRONG Evelyn   x   x                          
ARMSTRONG Freda x x   x                          
ARMSTRONG Nancy A.     x         Architecture                  
ARNSTON Carole     x         Architecture                  
ARONSON Marion     x     b.1913 d.2005 Painting   Montreal, QC              
ARREAK Aulaqiaq     x     b.1923   Sculpture                  
ARTHURS Annie J.   x x     b.1845 - Toronto, ON d.1927 Painting     Studied: Academie Julian, Paris;  under John Colin Forbes         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ARY Sylvia (born Bercovitch)     x   Active c.1980 b.1923 - Moscow, USSR   Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture Russian   Studied: MMFA (Edwin Holgate, Will Ogilvie and Jacques de Tonnancour); Studio of Norman Bethune (Fritz Bradner)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
ASHEVAK, Kenojuak     x     b.1927 - Ikerrasak d.2013 Printmaking, Drawing, Sculpture Inuit                
ASPELL Dorothy Mouat x   x   Active c. 1960     Painting   BC              
ASSELIN Beatrice Tobin   x   x                          
ATKINS Alban F.T.   x   x                          
ATKINSON Florence     x   Active c. 1898     Painting   Montreal, QC              
ATKINSON Mary Helena Cass     x                            
ATKINSON Sophia Mildred     x     b.1876 d.1972                    
ATKINSON Mrs W.E. (Mrs. William Edwin?)       x Active c.1907                        
ATRILL Anneke   x   x   b.1924                      
AUCLAIR Jeanne (Jeanne-Courtemanche)   x x x   b.1924 - Montreal, QC   Sculpture: Mosaic; Painting; Fibres: Textiles French-Canadian or Quebecoise                
AUERBACH Malca Rose   x     Active c.1896                        
AUGER Irène x x x     b.1924 - Quebec City, QC   Fibres: Tapestry, Textiles French-Canadian or Quebecoise                
AUGER Marie       x Active c.1948                        
AULD Jean M. x     x Active c.1924                        
AUSTIN Esther   x   x                          
AVERY Hinda     x         Architecture                  
AYERS Elizabeth   x   x                          
AYRE Agnes Marion   x   x   b.1890                      
B                                  
BADDEN Miss       x               Member: WAAC (commitee member)          
BAGI Agnes     x         Architecture                  
BAGLEY D. Mary   x x   Active c. 1930     Painting       Exhibited: AAM, RCA          
BAGOT Josceline (Hon)   x   x                          
BAIG Daisy   x       b.1916 - Nova Scotia                      
BAILEY Daisy   x   x   b.1921 d.1972 Painting: Mural Painting; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: HB Beal Technical School, London, ON (Herb Ariss); under Herbert E Clarke and Hortense Gordon     Husband: Robert L. Bailey   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
BAILEY Gwendolyn   x x x   b.1883 - Fredricton, NB   Painting; Fibres: Textiles             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
BAILEY Leslie       x                          
BAILEY Margaret Murphy x x   x                          
BAIN Mabel A   x   x   b.1880 d. (?) Painting     Studied: Los Angeles, CA, USA and San Diego, CA, USA Member: FCA          
BAIN Sophia Joyce   x   x   b.1908                      
BAINBRIDGE Unity (Mrs Leslie William Brewster)   x   x   b.1916                      
BAINE R.A.       x active c.1896                        
BAILLIE Helen Phoebe Aird   x   x   b.1916 d.1984                    
BAILLIE Sheila Pamela     x         Architecture                  
BAIRD Geneva Adair Jackson (G.A. Jackson Baird, Geneva Jackson Petrie)       x   b.1916 d.2006 Painting     Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts; MMFA; Banff School of Fine Arts     Uncle: AY Jackson CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
BAISS Edna Moss Elvery       x active c.1929 b.1882 - Ireland   Music? Irish         Husband: James Baiss (Married: 1911 - Victoria BC)      
BAKER Ida R.       x active c.1912     Ceramics                  
BAKER Linda     x         Architecture                  
BAKER-CARR Kay     x         Architecture                  
BALDWIN Alma       x   b. 1895 d. 1977 Sculpture: soft sculpture   Big Bay Point, ON              
BALDWIN Betty     x     b. 1889 - Leeds, England d. 1981 - Paris, France Painting British New York; QC              
BALFOUR Miss       x                          
BALLANTYNE Jessie       x active c.1930                        
BALLANTYNE Isa May     x     b. 1864 d. 1929 Photography Scottish Ottawa, ON              
BALLANTYNE Mrs. R.A.C.       x active c.1942         Westmount, QC   Member: CAS (Associate member)          
BALLON Iris Shklar   x   x   b.1931                      
BALLY-HAYES G.       x active c.1921         Taught: Winnipeg School of Art (MB)              
BANNERMAN Frances Maria Jones   x x     b.1855 - Halifax, NS d.1940 - Torquay, Devon, England Painting     Studied: Halifax, NS (Forshaw Day); Paris (Edouard Krug, Augustin Feyen-Perrin) Member: ARCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
BANTING Beatrice Aline Myles     x     b.1911 d.1998 Painting   Hamilton, ON Studied: OCA (Hortense Goron and John Sloan Gordon)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
BANTING Ida N. x x x     b.1862   Painting; Drawing   Taught: Toronto, ON; Hamilton, ON              
BANTON Winifred Roden     x     b.1893 Toronto, ON d.1925 Toronto, ON Painting; Drawing                  
BARBAUD Katie (see FRANCOIS-BARBAUD Katie) x x   x                          
BARBEAU Suzanne (see MELOCHE, Suzanne)   x   x   b.1926                      
BARBER Barbara Muir     x     b.1873 - Brantford, ON d.1966 - Regina Beach, SK Painting: Oil, Watercolour; Ceramics; Sculpture: Wood carving     Studied: Moulton College, Toronto, ON Member: RSA, WAA   Husband: Fred Barber   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
BARBIER soeur Marie       x   b.1663 d.1739 Painting             CHIN, UBC, AGO   Document in B Files
BARDWELL Millicent       x c.1927                        
BARFOOT Gertrude Olive Grace   x   x   b.1894                      
BARNARD Julia Bingham (born Bingham; Mrs Algernon Barnard)   x   x   b.1904 (*1900) London, England d. (?) Painting     Studied: Winnipeg School of Art       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
BARNHOUSE Dorothy       x   b.1914   Drawing; Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Vancouver School of Art; Banff School of Fine Arts; University of Alberta; Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Member: ASA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
BARNJUM Violet       x c.1906     Painting                  
BARNES E. Marie     x       d. 1923 - (?), ON Painting                  
BARNES Madeline L.   x   x                          
BARNETT Madeleine Lorimer (born Jordan; Mrs. Leonard R. Barnett)     x     b.1887 d.1961 Sculpture   SK              
BARR A.G. (Mrs.)     x     b. 1865 d. 1921 Painting   Regina, SK              
BARR Ruth L.   x   x                          
BARRABLE Pauline     x         Architecture                  
BARRETT Rosina J       x       Painting: China Painting   Exhibited at Chicago World's Fair Studied: Ottawa School of Needlework; Kensington Embroidery; Miss Harmon's Home and Day School for Young LAdies and Little Girls         McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts
Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 75, 85.
 
BARRON Belle Blair   x   x                          
BARRY Lily Emily Frances     x   Active c. 1912     Painting   Montreal, QC              
BARRY Miss   x   x                          
BARRY Mona   x   x                          
BARSTOW Anne M.     x         Architecture                  
BART-GERALD Elizabeth   x   x   b.1907                      
BARTMAN Janey Shelsy   x   x                          
BARTON Dorothy S   x   x                          
BASTEDO Miss L.       x c.1894                        
BASTIN Michele   x   x   b.1944                      
BATA Mrs. Thomas J.     x         Architecture                  
BATDORF Thaya Cronk FILE IS MISSING     x     b. 1887   Painting Dutch ancestors USA; NS              
BATES Patricia Martin   x   x Active c.1927                        
BAUDRIAS Blandine       x Active c.1930           Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts            
BAXTER Adeline       x Active c.1936     Photographer             Clara Lander    
BAXTER Ingrid   x   x Active c.1938                        
BAYFIELD Fanny Amelia Wright   x x     b.1814 - London, England d.1891 - Charlottetown, PEI Painting British QC           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
BAYLEY Emma Uniache/Uniacke   x   x                          
BAYNE Frances Kirkpatrick (born Forbes; Mrs. Walter F. Bayne) x   x     b.1911   Painting   NS              
BEACH Elizabeth (see KNOWLES Elizabeth)   x   x                          
BEALS Annie F.M.       x Active c.1935     Painting                  
BEALS Helen Dorothy   x x     b.1898 - Canso, NS d.1991 - Wolfville, NS Painting; Ceramics: Pottery       Member: CSPWC, MAA          
BEALS Jessie Tarbox   x x     b.1870 - Hamilton, ON d.1942 - New York, NY, USA Photography                  
BEANLANDS Mrs. Sophie (born Pemberton) x x     Active c.1910     Painting                  
BEARD Elenora x x     Active c.1906     Painting                  
BEARDMORE F.N.   x   x                          
BEARDMORE Helen Louise   x   x Active c.1920     Painting: Watercolour                  
BEATON Maggie E.       x Active c.1900     Fibres: Lace Embroidery                  
BEATTIE Carlotta     x   Active c.1888-92     Painting   Portage La Prairie, MB              
BEATTIE Dorothy   x                              
BEATTIE Jessie     x   Active c.1921-31     Painting       Exhibited: AAM; RCA          
BEATTY Margaret (Margaret Frame)     x     b.1903 d.1985                    
BEATTY Ottillie   x   x                          
BEAU Gertrude       x Active c.1915     Painting                  
BEAUCHAMP Alphonsine   x                              
BEAUCHEMIN Micheline     x     b.1930   Architecture                  
BEAUDOIN Armande   x   x                          
BEAUDOIN Suzanne (see DUMOUCHEL, Suzanne)   x   x   b.1920                      
BEAULIEU Simone Aubry     x     b. 1917 - Montreal, QC d. 2006 Painting; Drawing; Sculpture French-Canadian, Québécoise   Studied: Ecole des Beaux-arts, Paris (Fernand Leger and Andre Marchand); Academie Julian, Paris         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).  
BEAVON Daphne (see ODJIG)     x                            
BECK Gertrude E.   x                              
BECK Ida/Uda       x c.1934     Painting                  
BECKMAN (BECHMAN) Fredericka       x c.1935                        
BÉGIN Francine     x         Architecture                  
BEHENNA Katherine Arthur (Catherine)     x   Active c.1900-1925     Painting: Miniature painting British Etaples, Pas de Calais, France; London. England             Unclear whether she spent any time in Canada at all
BELBIN Louise       x   b.1898   Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   Grand Bank, NL           Lynch, Coleen. "The fabric of their lives : hooked and poked mats of Newfoundland and Labrador" (St-Johns: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1980)  
BELK M. Eliza   x   x Active c.1922     Painting                  
BELL Dama Lumley     x         Architecture                  
BELL Dorothy Gladys     x     b.1893 d.1954 - Gleneagles, West Vancouver, BC Painting: Watercolour                  
BELL Margaret     x   Active c. 1892 b. (?) - Almonte, ON   Painting   ON; NY; Paris              
BELL Mary A. (see EASTLAKE)     x                            
BELL Olga   x   x                          
BELL Ruth O.   x   x                          
BELL-IRVING Helen     x   Active c. 1888     Painting   BC              
BELL-IRVING Joan       x   b.1923 d.1996 Photography; Painting; Sculpture             CHIN; ArtTexte    
BELLE Nellie de       x Active c.1924     Fibres: Lace work           Father: Charles de Belle (DeBelle) (Painter, Poet)      
BELLEAU Marie-Reine-Josephte (born Gauvreau; Lady Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau)     x     b. 1811- (?) d. 1884 - Quebec, QC   French, Québécoise Lower Canada             Mrs. Narcisse Belleau album dating from 1835-1880 acquired by the National Gallery (?)
BELLEFEUILLE Annette Senecal De   x   x                          
BELLIS Maud Daisy       x Active c.1925 b.1887   Painting                  
BENAZON Ophra   x   x Active c.1932                        
BENEDICKS Karoline (Mrs. William Blair Bruce; alternately spelled Caroline)     x     1856 - Stockholm, Sweden 1935 - Gotland Island, Sweden Sculpture Swedish Hamilton, ON - unclear just how much time she spent in Canada, she seems to have spent most of her adult life on Gotland Island, Sweden       Husband (died on Gotland Island, Sweden)     A good number of articles in the file attest to the artist's participation in Canadian exhibitions. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=AUTR&VALUE_98=BENEDICKS-BRUCE%20Karoline&DOM=All&REL_SPECIFIC=3  https://sites.google.com/site/academiejulian/b-1/bruce http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/aa_brucebo.php
BENNATI Mme.       x Active c.1906                       "l'artiste bien connu" took a sabbatical.
BENOIT Marie Antonia   x       b.1927                      
BENOIT Mlle.       x Active c.1938                        
BENOÎT Mme Bernard     x         Architecture                  
BENT Gertrude A.     x   Active c.1935     Architecture                  
BENTLEY Dorothy (see WILLIAMS Dorothy)   x   x                          
BENTLEY Winifred   x   x                          
BENTON Margaret Maud Peake   x   x   b.1907 d.1977                    
BERCOVITCH Sylvia (see ARY Sylvia)   x   x Active c.1923                        
BERCHMANS Sister Agnes (Julia Alma Landry)       x   b.1879   Painting: Mural Painting                  
BERENSTEIN Leah       x   b.1922   Sculpture     Studied: Central Technical School, Toronto, ON (Carl Schaefer); Humber Vallery Art Club, ON; Toronto Western Technical School; OCA Member: SSC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) ; MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
BERESFORD-TULLY Louise (see TULLY)     x                            
BERG Helena           b.1917                      
BERGERON Suzanne (Mrs Jean Clause Suhit)     x     b.1930 d.1998 Architecture                  
BERIAU Reborn       x       Fibres: Weaving           Father: Oscar Beriau   McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 278.  
BERLIN Eugenia x x b. 1905 - Krakhov, Russia d. 2001 Sculpture, Ceramics: Pottery Russian Toronto, ON (1925) Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts, Geneva; Central Technical School, Toronto, ON (Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Bobs Cogill Haworth; Valentine Metein-Gilliard. Member: CGP; SSC Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BERRINGTON Adrian x x b. 1887 - England d. 1923 Printmaking; Painting British England; Toronto, ON Studied: under Elizabeth Wyn Wood **The Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada 1800-1950 (http://www.dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/1107) cites Berrington as a man.
BERSON Mrs. Gordon x x
BERTHE Sally Gertrude x x x
BERTHON Miss x Active c.1894 Painting
BERTRAM Jane -- Research in Progress x Active c.1940 Ceramics; Painting: China Painting ON
BERTRAND Marguerite x Active c.1927 "prize winning student"
BERTRAND Michèle x Architecture
BESSONETT Cecilia Augusta x Active c. 1850 Painting: Watercolour Halifax, NS; Saint-John, NB
BETHUNE Debay x x
BETHUNE Edith Hallett b.1890 - D'Escousse, NS d.1970 - Berwick, NS Photography Studied: Halifax (Maria Miller)
BETHUNE May Manley x x
BETTERIDGE Lois Etherington x x x b.1928
BETTS M.D x x
BETTS Sarah A. x x
BICE Clare x b.1909 - Durham, ON d.1976 Painting; Drawing: Illustrator of Children's Books (also the Author)
BIGELOW Mrs. John x Architecture
BILLAUX Mary Jane Helene (Mrs Hugh Clifford) x x b.1903
BILLER Olive Allen b.1879 d.1957 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Illustrator of Children's Books (was also the Author) British Ormskirk, England; SK; James Island, BC; Oak Bay, Victoria, BC; Vancouver, BC Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BILTON Mary L. x Architecture
BINGHAM Lulu x x Active c.1929-30 Studied: Winnipeg School of Art
BIRCH Emily L x x
BIRCHALL Jane (born Jane Elizabeth Lippert) x Active c.1954 b.1924 - Kitchener, ON Painting: Mural Painting, Decoration Studied: OCA; Der Akademie der Bilden Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Academie La Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France; Apprentice to Prof. A. Winternitz in mosaic church work (Madrid, Spain) Received scholarships from WAAC CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
BIRIUKOVA Alexandra x x b.1895 - St. Petersburg or Vladivostok, Russia d.1967 - Richmond Hill, ON Architecture Russian Sister: Yulia Biriukova
BIRIUKOVA Yulia b.1895 - St. Petersburg or Vladivostok, Russia d.1972 - Toronto, ON Painting: Oil; Drawing: Pastel Russian Toronto, ON (1929) (Had studio space at Studio Building, Severn St. Toronto, ON) Studied: Imperial Academy of Art, Petrograd, Russia; Royal Academy of Art, London Member: CSGA Sister: Alexandra Biriukova Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BISHOP Olive x x x
BISHOP Rose x x Architecture
BISSON Yvette x x b.1926
BLACHFORD Bernice Mabel x x b.1923
BLACHFORD Maude B. x Active c.1931 MMFA
BLACK Barbara (Louise B. Flood) x x
BLACK Betty (Mrs Stokvis) x x b.1928
BLACK Mary E. x b. 1895 - Nantucket, MA, USA d. 1988 - Wolfville, NS Fibres: Textiles, Weaving; Ceramics; Writing
BLACK Mary Florence b. 1885 d. 1986(?) - Toronto, ON Painting; Ceramics: Pottery; Sculpture Studied: Central Ontario School of Art, Toronto; Academie Julian, Paris (Edwin Scott) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BLACKIE J.B. / Judith / R.B x Active  c.1983 Painting Rather unknown lady. CWAHI has file -- but research protocol calls her "Blaikie". Calgary has an R. B., the National Gallery has a Judith that had a show in 1983, and other sources have J. B. Judith
BLACKSTOCK Harriet (Hattie) x x Active c. 1928 Drawing: Medical Illustration; Painting Montreal, QC
BLACKWELL Anne x x
BLACKWOOD Helen x x
BLAIN Suzanne x x
BLAIS Roger (Mrs) x x
BLAIR Alice (see THOMAS) x
BLAKE E. x x
BLAKE Sarah Mary b.1864 - Galway, Ireland d.1933 Painting: Watercolour Irish Pincher Creek, AB (c.1889) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BLAKENEY Charlotte x Architecture
BLANCHARD Mme of Caraquet (Marie Louise Allard Blanchard) x x Fibres: Textiles, Linen Spinning, Weaving McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 272. http://www.museevirtuel.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=Francais&fl=0&ex=00000063&sl=586&pos=1 - Marie-Louise Allard Blanchard
BLANCHARD Margaret x Active c.1922 Clara Lander
BLANCHFORD Bernice Mabel x x Active c.1923
BLASCHKE Elsie x x
BLOCH Aase x x Active c.1917
BLUMBERG Shirley x Architecture
BOAKE Terri Meyer x Architecture
BOBAK Molly Lamb x x b.1922 - Vancouver, BC Painting Fredericton, NB Studied: Vancouver School of Art (Jack Shadbolt, Charles H Scott) Member: CGP; ABCSA; ARCA; CSGA; CSPWC; SCPE Father: Harold Mortimer Lamb (art critic and photographer). Husband: Bruno Bobal (Painter) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOLDUC Blanche x x b.1907 - Baie-Saint-Paul, QC d.1998 Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOLDUC Yvonne x x x b.1905 - Baie-Saint-Paul, QC d.1983 Painting; Sculpture; Wood Carving French-Canadian, Québécoise Crepeau, Pierre, et al. "From the Heart: Folk Art in Canada." (Ottawa: McClelland and Stewart & National Museum of Civilization, 1983)
BOLLEY Andrea x x x Active c.1949
BOLTE Hilde Klara x x x Active c.1922
BOLTON Muriel (see BOULTON) x x
BOND Marion x x b.1903 (*1900) - Antigonish, NS d. 1965 (*1969) - Halifax, NS Painting; Sculpture Studied: NSCAD, Halifax, NS; Art Students League, New York, NY, USA Member: NSSA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOND Theodosia (Theodosia Dawes Bond Thornton) x x b.1915 d.2009 Photography Montreal, QC
BONHAM Mary Elizabeth x x b.1878 Printmaking Quebec; Westmount, QC
BOOK Flora x x x
BONNEMAISON Sarah x Architecture
BOOTHE Beverly x Architecture
BORDEN Marjorie Mary x x Active c.1911
BORDIRE Mlle J. x Active c.1925 Prize Winning Student
BOREHAM Agnes Catherine x b.1816 d.1847 Fibres: "Silk on Wood" "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. (exhibition catalogue on bookshelf at CWAHI)
BORGFORD Elizabeth (born Beth Dart Ballantyne) x b. 1910 Painting: Watercolour Toronto, ON
BORGFORD V. Lara (V. Lara Borgford Russel) x b.1908 Clara Lander
BORGSTROM Mary b. 1916 - (?), SK Ceramics: Pottery AB
BOROS Agnes x Architecture
BORSOOK Mrs Lisl Hummel x x x
BOSWELL Charlotte x x
BOSWELL Hazel May x b. 1882 - Quebec City, QC d.(?) Painting; Drawing: Illustration Labrador, NL Studied: Paris Member: AAM Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOUCHARD Édith x x b.1924 - Baie-Saint-Paul, QC Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise self-taught Sister (s): Marie-Cecile Bouchard and Simone-Mary Bouchard Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); Boswell, Hazel "French Canada: Pictures and Stories" (Viking: 1938)
BOUCHARD Marie x x
BOUCHARD Marie-Cécile x x x b.1920 - Baie-Saint-Paul, QC d.1973 - Chicoutimi, QC Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise self-taught Sister (s): Edith Bouchard, Simone-Mary Bouchard Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOUCHARD Simone Marie (also spelled Simone-Mary or S. Mary Bouchard) x x b.1912 - Baie-Saint-Paul, QC d.1945 Painting; Fibres: Hooked Rugs French-Canadian, Québécoise self-taught Member: CAS Sister (s): Marie-Céciles Bouchard, Edith Bouchard Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOUCHER Jean x x Architecture
BOUGHTON Miss x x Active c.1896
BOULD Kay (Kathleen) x b.1901 - Dumfreshire, Scotland Painting: Watercolour Studied: Regina School of Art, SK (W.J. Phillips and Ernest Linder) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). document in B file
BOULIANE Marie-Louise x Active c.1908 Fibres: Sewing, Textiles
BOULTBEE Constance x Active c.1897
BOULTBEE Hesill x x b.1913 d.1966
BOULTON Muriel Cameron Welsh x x b.1881 - Charlottetown, PEI d.1957 - Barton-on-Sea, England Painting Studied: Herkomer School of Fine Arts, Buskey, England (Hubert von Herkomer); Academie Colarossi, Paris (Christian Krohg and Emile Renard) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BOURASSA Augustine x Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Europe (1884-1887 and 1897-1912); QC (1912) Father: Napoleon Bourassa (Architect and painter); Brother: Henri Bourassa (Politician). Around and after her father's death she became involved in the conservation of his work.
BOURBEAU Louise x x x Active c.1928
BOURDREAU Eugénie (Mme Ernest Gervais) x b.1862 - Manchester, NH, USA d.1943 - Montreal, QC Painting; Sculpture French-Canadian, Québécoise
BOUTAL Pauline x x b.1894 Lanhouarneau, Bretagne / Brittany, France d.1992 - St. Boniface, MB Fibres: Textiles, Costume and Fashion design; Painting; Drawing: Pastels; Design: Set Design French, immigrated to Manitoba in 1907 Studied: Winnipeg School of Art;  Paris (George E. Brown and Andre Lhote); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris
BOWLEY Paula x Architecture
BOWMAN Barbara x x b.1857 - Waterloo County, ON d.1937 - (?), ON Fibres: Textiles, Embroidery, Weaving) Mennonite
BOYD M.A. x x
BOYD Margaret Joan x b.1925 Painting Studied: Vancouver School of Art CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Document in B File.
BOYD Margaret M. x Active c.1921 Ceramics
BOYD Olive x Active c.1914 Ceramics
BOYER Madeleine x b.1916 Painting Studied: under Eric Newman; Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris; under Alfred Pellan; Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico; MMFA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has biblio. Document in B file
BOYER Marthe x x
BRACKEN Mrs. John x Architecture
BRADSHAW Alice x b.1916 - Toronto, ON Drawing; Printmaking Montreal, QC; Senneville, QC (1988) Studied: Central Technical School, Toronto (Charles Goldhamer, Peter Haworth and Dawson Kennedy); Art Students League, New York, NY, USA Member: CSGA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BRADSHAW Eva Theresa b.1871 d.1938 Painting London, ON Studied: Florence Carlyle and Robert Henri, New York, NY, USA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BRADSHAW Nell b.1904 - Ownyo, CA, USA d.1997 Painting AB (1914); Victoria, BC Studied: Vancouver Art Gallery (HG Glyde and Molly Lamb Bobak) Member: ASA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BRAINERD Charlotte (Charlotte Blanche Mattison) x x b.1923 d.1993 Printmaking; Painting Studied: Vancouver School of Art (Peter Aspell); OCA (Frederick Hagen) Member: CSGA, SCPE CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
BRAIS Mlle A. x x Active c.1907 Studied: Saint-Hyacinthe
BRAND Pamela x Emigrated to Canada in 1949
BRANTFORD Millie x Active c.1909 Painting
BRANTON Winona Young x Painting Calgary, AB (1948) Studied: under Molly Bobak
BRASSARD Mme Paul x Architecture
BRAUN Anita x Architecture
BRAUN Hella-Klassen x Active c.1925? Fibres: Doll-making Kitchener, ON Patterson, Nancy-Lou "Mennonite Tradtional Arts of the Waterloo Region and Southern Ontario" (Kitchener ON: The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 1974)
BRENTON Mme. x Active c.1900 Fibres: Lace embroidery, Textiles
BRESLAUER Helen x Architecture
BRETT Katherine Beatrice (Betty Maw; Mrs. Gerard Brett) x b.1910 - Hull Humberside, England d.1994 - Toronto, ON Painting British. Moved to Canada in 1912
BREWER Bessie March x b.1884 d.1952
BREWSTER Zilla Ruth x x b.1914
BRIANSKY Rita (Mrs. Joseph Prezament) x b.1925 - Grajewa, Poland d.1925 - Montreal, QC Painting; Printmaking: Etching; Drawing Polish Studied: Art Students League, New York, NY, USA; under Alexander Bercovitch, Jacques de Tonnancour and M. Charpentier. Member: CSGA, SCPE Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BRICKUS Claire (see SHONIKER, Claire)
BRIGGS Lily x x
BRISBY Peggy x b.1898 - India d.1985 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour British
BRITTON Henrietta Hancock (Mrs. Harry Britton) b.1874 - Ealing West, England d.1963 - Toronto, ON Painting British Studied: William Cruikshank, Toronto; Central Ontario School of Art , Toronto; St Ives, England (Harry Britton) Husband: Harry Britton Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BROCK Linda x Architecture
BRODEUR A.S. x x Active c. 1857 ambiguous if male or female
BROCHU Rachel x b.1908 Painting Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts, Quebec City, Quebec; Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Centre d'art de Ste-Adele, Quebec (Alfre Pellan and Jean-Paul Mousseau) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
BRODKIN Edith x b.1925 Sculpture Studied: School of Art and Design; MMFA Member: SSC CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
BRODIE Mrs. Hugh x x c.1895 Ceramics
BRODIE Isobel x b.1862 d.1940 Painting Halifax, NS
BRODIE Mrs. Kate.S. x x c.1929
BRODIE Margaret x b.1861 d.1939 Painting Halifax, NS
BRONFMAN Phyllis (see LAMBERT Phyllis) x x
BROOK Joanne x Architecture
BROOKER Jeannette x Architecture
BROOKS Carol Elizabeth x x Active c.1919
BROOKS Maria b.1837 d.1913
BROOKS Reva b.1913 d. 2004 Photography Studied: Central Technical School, Toronto, ON Husband: Leonard Brooks (Painter) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BROOKS Maria Matilda x b. 1837 - Staines, Middlesex, England d.1913 - New York, NY, USA Painting: Oil, Watercolour British
BROOKS Reva x b.1913 - Toronto, ON d.2004 - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Photography
BROOMFIELD Isobel Cook x x x
BROUSSEAU Emelie x x b.1843 d.1939 Fibres: Rug Making St-Simon, Bagot County, QC National Museum of Man Archives (CCFS)
BROWN Annora (Mary Annora Brown) x b.1899 - Red Deer, AB d.1987 - Fort McLoed, AB Painting: Watercolour; Design: Graphic Design Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer and JEH MacDonald) Member: ASA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). http://www.fortmacleod.com/visiting/photo_gallery/default2.cfm?mode=viewImageMode&id=4326F1DA-1143-CD94-4C77C781394F2418
BROWN A. Everal x b.1890 - Swift Current, SK d.1961 - Regina, SK Painting Member: ASA (first female member)
BROWN Bessie x x b.1848 d.1920 Painting: China painting; Drawing Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design (Halifax, NS) Students: Alice Hagen (Victoria School of Art and Design) McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 72.
BROWN Doris M. x Architecture
BROWN Dorothy J. x x
BROWN G Winnifred x x
BROWN Helen M. x x
BROWN Helen Piper x b.1886 - Van Buren, Arkansas, US d. (?) - Dawson Creek, BC Painting
BROWN Jean x x
BROWN Judith A. x Architecture
BROWN Louise x x
BROWN Miss. x
BROWN Mrs. G. Winnifred x Active c.1910 Ceramics
BROWN M. Helen x Active c.1912 Ceramics
BROWN Norman x x
BROWN Una x x
BROWN  Winifred L.
BROWN  Winifred E
BROWN  Winifred G
BROWNE Mrs. G.W.
BRUCE Ada Mildred (Thomas L. Torrance) x x b.1903 d.1982
BRUCE Annie Priscilla MacKenzie x b.1868 d.1967 Painting: Watercolour
BRUCE Mary Lisette x b.1913
BRUNEAU Claire B x x
BRUNEAU Kittie (Mrs Serge Gilbert) x x Active c.1929
BRUNTON Alice x x Active c.1939
BRYAN Violet Eden x x Active c.1908
BRYANS Miss M.E. x Design: Advertising; Painting: opal and ivory portraits Toronto
BRYDONE-JACK Katharine x b.1895 d.1945 Painting
BRYMNER Mrs. x Active c.1893 Possibly the wife of William Brymner. She was in ontario. Not the draughstman Grace Stewart Brymner
BRYSON Florence Adelaide X X
BRYSON Mary x x
BUCHANAN Margaret x Architecture
BUCK Margaret E. x x
BUDD Katherine C. x Architecture
BUELL Katrina S. D.
BUISSET Carole x x
BUISSET-BASTIN Jo x x Quebec
BULL Miss x Active c.1894
BULLEN Mamie A. Rose (Annie Amelia, nicknamed Rose, born Bushby) x b.1863 - New Westminster, BC d.1956 - Victoria, BC Painting Grandfather: Sir James Douglas
BULLER Audrey D. (Audrey Buller Parsons) x b.1902 - Montreal, QC d. 1984 - Little Compton, RI, USA Painting; Drawing
BULLER Cecil Tremayne (Mrs. John J. A. Murphy) b.1888 d.1974 (*1973) Printmaking; Painting Montreal, QC Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Art Students League, New York, NY, USA; under Maurice Denis, Paris Member: ANA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BULLER Gladys (see COLTHURST Gladys) x x
BULLER Marguerite (Mrs Marguerite Buller Allan) x x Active c.1917 Printmaking Montreal, QC Sister: Cecil Tremayne Buller
BULLER Miss x x
BULLOCK-WEBSTER Julia b.1826 d.1907 Painting: Watercolour British Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). http://www.prints-online.com/colours_by_marguerite_buller_allan/print/7188587.html    http://www.amazon.com/Photographic-Pierrot-Marguerite-Mary-Evans/dp/B008RSX4EQ
BULMAN Bessie x Active c.1959
BULOW Karen x b.1899 - Denmark d.1982 Fibres: Textiles design, weaving Danish CHIN McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 242, 243, 248, 272. ; Wood, Elizabeth Wyn "Canadian Handicrafts"; Harrington, Lyn "The Lady of the Loom,"
BULOW-HUBE Sigrun x Architecture
BULYEA Anne Babbit (Annie Blanche Babbit) x x b.1863 d.1934 Photography Edmonton, AB
BURGESS Anne Louise (see ACER Anne Louise) x x Active c.1928
BURGOYNE Gertrude M. x x b.1894 - Plympton, Devon, England d.1961 - Toronto, ON Painting British http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8049
BURGOYNE Lorna H. Haywood (Mrs. L. von Ritschl) x b.1894 d.1961
BURKA Astra x Architecture
BURKE Ruth x x
BURKITT Thyrza Young x b.1887 d.1954 Painting AB
BURNAND Audrey x b.(?) d.1972 Photographer CHIN
BURNS Mrs. M x Active c.1930
BURRELL Louise (born Louise H. Luker) b.1873 - London, England d.1971 Painting: Miniature painting British Canada (1912-1916) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BURRELL Mrs M. x x Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
BURRIDGE Ray Elenor x x x Active c.1947
BURRILL Blake x x
BURT Joan Active c.1930 Architecture Toronto, ON
BURY Jean Visart De b.1871 d. (?)
BUSH Betty x x Architecture
BUSSCHAERT Irene x x Active c.1953
BUTLER Audrey D. x x
BUTLER Beryl x x Active c.1934
BUTT Portia Ruth x
BYERS Ethel Active c.1951 b. (?) - Hawkesbury, ON d. ? - Toronto, ON Painting
BYNNES Muriel x x
BYRD Mrs. x x Member: WAA (on commitee)
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CADBURY Barbara x Architecture
CADDILS Emith M x x
CADET Claire Haggar x x Active c.1931
CAHN Elizabeth x Architecture
CAIN Dorothy Gertrude Mason (Dolly) x x Active c.1914
CAISERMAN-ROTH Ghitta (Ghitta Caiserman Pinsky) x x x b.1923 d.2005 Drawing; Painting; Printmaking Romanian Montreal, QC Studied: American Artists School (Harry Sternberg); Art Students League, New York; NSCAD, Halifax, NS; Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; Ecole des beaux-arts, Montreal (Albert Dumouchel) Member: ARCA; CGP; CGQ; CSGA; FCA; SCPE Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CALDER Mrs. x Active c.1896 Drawing; Painting Hamilton, ON
CALDWELL Atha Haydoch (Elizabeth) x x Active c.1872 Painting: Watercolour, China Painting; Ceramics Montreal, QC
CALDWELL Elizabeth A. x x
CALDWELL Mrs. x x
CAMERON Agnes Dean x Active c.1863 Photography: Lantern slides, hand-tinted Victoria, BC Friend: Mary T. S. Schaffer Warren
CAMERON Dorothy (Dorothy Cameron Bloore) x b.1923 d.1999 Installation; Sculpture: papier maché, clay (ceramics) Toronto, ON Studied: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Husband: Ron Bloore (Artist) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). Was also an art dealer and gallery-owner at the beginning of her career
CAMERON Jean Park x x Active c.1905
CAMERON Lillian T. x x
CAMERON Lois x x Active c.1939
CAMERON Olive S. x x
CAMPBELL Doreen x x
CAMPBELL Duncan x x
CAMPBELL F Elizabeth x x
CAMPBELL Katherine x Fibres: Basket Making, Weaving Member: CHG (Summerside, PEI) McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 161, 170.
CAMPBELL Kay (Kathryn Isabelle) x b.1920 Printmaking; Painting Member: OAA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
CAMPBELL Margaret x Architecture
CAMPBELL Margaret (see MACPHERSON) x
CAMPBELL Mary Walker x x Painting: Enamel Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (1904) CHIN McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999), 129.
CAMPBELL Miss B x x Active c.1885
CAMPBELL Mrs Alex x Fibres: Textiles, Rug Hooking Cape Breton, NS
CAMPBELL Rosamond Sheila Stokes Active c.1919 - Bareilly, India Painting British Adelaide, Australia; Saint John, NB
CAMPBELL Viola x Active c.1947 Painting Vancouver, BC
CANN Elizabeth Lovitt x b.1901 d.1976 Painting Yarmouth, NS Studied: Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; New York School of Applied Design for Women; Academie Julian, Paris; Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris; Harvey Proctor School, English Member: AAM, CSGA, NSSA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CANTLE Beatrice Mary (See HAMPSON, Beatrice) x
CAPEL Audrey (see DORAY Audrey) x x x Active c.1931
CAPON Inga x b.1924 Sculpture Studied: OCA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CARAGIANIS Evanthia x Architecture
CARDIFF Kathleen May x b.1913 Printmaking Studied: under George Webber Member: SCPE CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). ; MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CAREY Alice G x Active c.1963 b.1908 Painting Studied: Wimbledon School of Art, London Member: NSP, RIPP, VAA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). ; MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CAREY Alice Ingles x x
CARLETON Edith (born Cunningham) x b.1900 d.(?) Painting; Sculpture Studied: under her father Edward Cunningham; South Kensington School of Art, London; Banff School of Fine Arts (WJ Phillips) Member: ASA, CSC CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CARLISLE Mary Helen x x b.1869 d.1925
CARLISLE Phyllis Cook (Phyllis Willson Cook) x x b.1912 d.1954 Architecture Toronto, ON
CARLYLE Florence Emily x x b.1864 - Galt, ON d.1923 - Crowborough, Sussex, England Painting Studied: Academie Julien, Paris, France; Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury Member: ARCA; OSA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CARMAN Elizabeth Thompson x x x
CARMICHAEL Adele Miller x x b.1879 - Richmond, QC d.1970 - Albany, NY, USA Painting; Drawing
CARON Blossom (Brenda Beryl Harding) x x b.1905 Photography Montreal, QC
CARR Edith x x b.1856 - Alviso, CA, USA d.1919 - Victoria, BC Painting: China painting British parents Sister: Emily Carr Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008). http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/search/ItemDisplay.asp?sessionKey=1143825756048_206_191_57_199&l=-1&lvl=1&v=0&coll=1&itm=266444&rt=1&bill=1
CARR Emily x x x b.1871 d.1945 - Victoria, BC Painting British parents Studied: California School of Art, San Francisco; Westminster School of Art, London; Algernon Talmage, St Ives, England; Academie Colarossi, Paris; Harry Gibb, Crecy-en-Brie and St-Efflam Member: CGP; BCSA Sister: Edith Carr Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CARR Rosetta Ernestine (born Watson) x x x b.1845 - Drummond Township, ON d.1907 - Ottawa, ON Photography
CARREAU-KINGWELL Arlette x x x b.1917 Painting; Fibres: Textiles Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts, Montreal (Alfred Laliberte and Joseph Saint-Charles); Adrien Hebert Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CARRICK Margaret L x x x
CARRIER Louise x x b.1925 - Lévis, QC d.1976 - Quebec City, QC Painting; Printmaking; Engraving; Drawing French-Canadian, Québécoise Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts, Quebec City, QC (Simone Hudon, Jean Paul Lemieux, Jean Dallaire) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CARRUTHERS Elenor Ruthwell x x Active c.1908
CARSON Anita Pauline Jenner x x Active c.1920
CARSON Jean x x
CARSON Jo x b.(?) d.1984 Photographer CHIN
CARSON Mrs. x b.1814 - Germany d.1911 - Clifford, ON Fibres: Textiles, Quilt-making German Children: Florence Millson (Artist)
CARSWELL Kathleen W.B. x x
CARTER Augusta Helene x b.1887 Drawing: Illustrator, Magazine Illustration and Poster Illustration Toronto, ON SEE: Toronto Saturday Night (1912) : "Another practical and remunerative departure in this section is the illustrative work, such as is used for magazine and poster work. Some beautiful work by Jessie Wilcox Smith was noticed. Here again work by several Toronto girls was pointed out, as Miss Helene Carter, Miss Marion Long and Miss Estelle Kerr."
CARTER Dorothy Frances Colley x x Active c.1903
CARTER Elizabeth A. x
CARTER Harriet Estelle Manore x x Active c.1929
CARTER Miss x x
CARTER Mrs H.J. x x
CARTER Thelma M. x x
CARTIER Lucette x Active c.1925 Prize Winning Student
CARTIER Marcelle Montreuil x x Active c.1907
CARTWRIGHT Harriet x Active c. 1832-34 b.(?) - Ireland Painting: Watercolour Irish, immigrated to Canada in 1832. Kingston, ON Came to Canada with her husband, Rev. R.D. Cartwright. Michael Clark 1992 see file
CARTWRIGHT Henrietta x
CARUSO Barbara Ann x x Active c.1937
CASEY Lucille (see MACARTHUR) x
CASS Louise x Active c.1930
CASSELS Amy x x b.1864 - Toronto, ON Photography Montreal, QC; London, England (c.1899-1907) There is a CASSELS-CALDWELL Lynn on CHIN, also a photographer, in Ontario. Sister? http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection/photographers-represented-in-the-collection/c.php / http://records.ancestry.com/Amy_Cassels_records.ashx?pid=91789854 / http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/MP-1974.108.4.6?Lang=1&accessnumber=MP-1974.108.4.6
CASSILS Edith M x x
CASSILS M Gilmour x x x
CASTEL Madeline x x Painting
CATHERWOOD Catherine x x
CASTONGUAY Mlle x Active c.1873 Photographer
CAUDLE Nancy Mary x x Active c.1908
CAULFIELD Mrs. Dr. x Architecture
CAVERHILL Hazel M. x Active c.1920's-1930's Painting Montreal, QC
CAWKER Ruth x Architecture
CAWTHRA Mabel (see ADAMSON Mabel) x
CHALUT Denise x x Active c.1928
CHAMBERLIN Agnes Dunbar see FITZGIBBON x
CHAN Diana Ming-Teh x Architecture
CHAPDELAINE Marie x Active c.1936 Drawing
CHAPLIN A.M. x x
CHAPLIN Millicent Mary x Active c.1838-42 b.1790 d.1858 Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking: Lithography Ottawa, ON; QC; NS Husband: Thomas Chaplin Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CHAPMAN F.M. x x
CHAPPELLE Margaret Mary (Margaret Morgan?) x x Active c.1919 b.1915 d.1992 Painting; Ceramics: Pottery; Sculpture Studied: U of A (HG Glyde); Banff School of Fine Arts (Gordon Smith and John Ferron) Member: ASA, FCA, SCPE CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CHAPUT Denyse (born Gadbois) see GADBOIS x
CHARBONNEAU Monique x x Active c.1928
CHAREST Therese x x
CHARLEBOIS Emma M x Active c.1925 "decorateur"
CHARLEBOIS Lily x Active c.1927 Prize Winning Student
CHARLESWORTH Pamela x Architecture
CHARMOY Cozette de x x Active c.1939
CHATFIELD Edith (Mrs R.S.Gossage) x x Active c.1906
CHAVIGNAUD Christine F x b.1897 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour; Fibres: Textiles French-Canadian Kleinburg, ON (1925); Brampton, ON Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design, Halifax, NS (under her father, George Chavignaud) Father: Georges Chavignaud from Finistère, Lanvéoc, Brittany (Principal of Victoria School of Art 1912-16). Mother: Canadian from Ontario. Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY:
Firefly Books, 2008) ; http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp?emu=en.aich:/Proxapp/ws/aich/user/wwwe/Record&upp=0&m=3&w=NATIVE%28%27ARTIST%20ph%20words%20%27%27chavignaud%27%27%27%29&order=native%28%27every%20AR%27%29&bio=CHAVIGNAUDGeorge.html
CHÊNEVERT Henriette Barrot x Active c.1902-1997 Marseille, France Architecture French Quebec, QC Married a French-Canadian or Québécois http://books.google.ca/books?id=tqyG_qGKPmIC&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=chenevert+henriette+barrot&source=bl&ots=tof07pECXF&sig=TPYAkPaUYi3EWNCPayz93vNjPf4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IGzLUP-fIoGFyQHmxIGoDg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=chenevert%20henriette%20barrot&f=false
CHENEY Anna (Nan) Gertrude Lawson x x b.1897 - Windsor, NS d.1958 - Vancouver, BC Studied: Newcombe Art School, Tulane University; School of Medical Illustration, John Hopkins University (Max Broedel); JW Beatty; Art Association of Ottawa (Franklin Brownell) Member: BCSA; BCSFA; FCA Friend: Emily Carr Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CHENEY Mrs H.H. x Active c.1925 Painting
CHENG Alice x x Architecture
CUNDIL Constance x Active c.1933 Drawing; Design; Printmaking: Engraving
CHESHIRE Lorna Dean x x Active c.1931
CHEUNG Bona x Architecture
CHEUNG Lana x Architecture
CHEVRIER Mrs. Douglas x Architecture
CHIASSON Irene x x Active c.1938
CHICOINE Berthe x Active c.1948 Painting
CHILD Marjorie L. x x
CHILLAS Joan x Active c. 1927 Drawing, Painting Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts
CHIPMAN M. Isabel Prados x x
CHIPMAN Maud Mary (born Angus) also Mrs. W.W. Chipman and Maud M Angus x b.1860 - Montreal, QC d.1946 - Montreal, QC Scottish parents Father: Richard Bladworth Angus (Scottish-Canadian financier, banker and philanthropist. He was president of the Montreal Art Association).
Mother:Mary Ann Daniels Angus. Husband: Dr. Walter William Chipman (Married: 1909; b.1867-d.1950) Chief of Gynecology at the Royal Victoria Hosptial, Montreal.
CHIPMAN Minnie E. x b.1867 d.1929 Ceramics USA Studied: University of Hawaii
CHISHOLM (Florence Mary) Helen x x b.1918 d.1975 Painting: Mural Painting National Gallery of Canada for 30 years (Secretary to RH Hubbard) Studied: OCA (George Pepper, Charles Comfort and Franklin Carmichael) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CHISHOLM Madeleine x x Active c.1934
CHISNALL Cynthia F x Painting
CHISVIN Karen x Architecture
CHIVERS Margaret x Active c.1930 Painting
CHOCHRANE K. x x
CHOWN Kate Ferrell x Active c.late 1890's b.1859 d.1916 Painting MB
CHOWN Margaret x Architecture
CHRAMOSTOVA Danka Hieke x Architecture
CHRISTENSEN Ethel Madill x x Active c.1926
CHRISTIE Audrey Koehler x Architecture
CHRISTIE Jean x Architecture
CHRISTIE Margaret Gisborne x Architecture
CHRISTOPHER Anna H. x x Active c.1929 MMFA
CHURCH Elizabeth x Fibres: Rug Hooking QC
CHURCH Harriet x
CHURCHILL Kitty x Manitoba Craft Museum
CHURCHILL Miss L. x Active c.1873 Painting ON
CLAIRE Lorna x Active 1923-30 Mural painting
CLARE Beatrice x x
CLARE Margaret x x Active c.1935
CLARK Hélène x Active c.1928 Painting; Printmaking; Drawing French-Canadian, Québécoise, Francophone and Anglophone parents Exhibited: Trois-Riviere, QC; Montreal, QC Sister: Marcelle Clark
CLARK Marcelle x Active c.1950's Painting Exhibited: Montreal, QC Sister: Hélène Clark
CLARK Mary
CLARK Mary Patterson x b.1936 Architecture Toronto, ON
CLARK Mrs. D.E. x x Active c.1894 Painting
CLARK Paraskeva (Paraskeva Avdyevna Allegri) (born Plistik) x x b.1898 - St Petersburg, Russia d.1986 - Toronto, ON Painting Russian Studied: Petrograd Academy of Fine Arts; Savely Seidenberg; Free Studios (Former Russian Academy), Leningrad (Vaily Shukhayev and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin) Member: CGP; OSA (1954-65); ARCA; CSGA; CSPWC; RCA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008).
CLARK Rosa x Fibres: Weaving on a Thackeray Loom Taught: Weaving Member: Guild of All Arts, Scarborough, ON McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Crawford, Gail. "A Fine Line: Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present." (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998)
CLARKE (also CLARK) Alma x x Active c.1920's Painting Exhibited: AAM
CLARKE Edith Graeme x Active c.1920's Painting ON (1959)
CLARKE Emma x x d.1946
CLARKE Henrietta Burchell (Mrs. Wilfred E. Clarke) x b.1886 d.1966 Sculpture Sydney, NS Studied: MA, USA; ME, USA
CLARKE Katherine A. x x Active c.1911 UBC, AGO
CLARKE Louise Waldorf x x b.1838 - Labrador, NL d.1906 - Montreal, QC Painting: Oil, Landscape Montreal, QC (c.1900) Studied: Albany Institute, NY, USA Possibly an acquaintance of Lady Elgin Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CLARKE Mary Lillian x x Active c.1904 Painting: Watercolour
CLARKE Miss x x x
CLARKE Peggy x x
CLAY Mary (see EWART Mary Clay) x x
CLAYTON Edith x x b.1920 - East Preston, NS d.1989 - NS Fibres: Basket weaver African-Canadian Descendant of loyalists, Daughter: Clara Gough (Teaches basket weaving) May also be an Edith Clayton, senior (clarify birth/death date discrepancies)
CLEAVER Elizabeth Ann (Mrs Mrazik) x x Active c.1939
CLELAND Isabel E x x b.1908 d. 2002 Painting; Sculpture; Printmaking: Etching Studied:OCA; Art Students League, New York, NY, USA Member: SCPE Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CLELAND Mary Alberta x x b.1876 d.1960 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Pastels; Sculpture Montreal, QC; Cushing, QC Studied: AAM (William Brymner) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CLEMES Emily x x
CLEMMER Shirley x x x Active c.1938
CLENCHE Harriet (see KANE) x
CLENDENING Cordelia Ann Marion x Active c.1925 Clara Lander
CLIFFORD Mary (see BILAUX Mary) x x Active c.1903
CLIFFORD Mme. James x Active c.1879 Fibres: Embroidery, Textiles
CLOSSEY Claire x Active c.1928
CLUFF Pamela b.1931- London, England Architecture British. Immigrated to Toronto in 1955. Toronto, ON (2012) "champion for the elderly and for people with disabilities"
CLUSE Zillah Mary x x Active c.1916
COATS Miss Nita x x Fibres: Embroidery Nappan, NS Gave a Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
COCHRANE Bertha L. x Active c.1895-1915 Painting: Watercolour Montreal, QC
COCHRANE Josephine G x x
COCHRANE Mlle. K x x Active c.1925
COCHRANE Miss x x
CODE Ernva A Willard x b.1900 d.1989 Painting CHIN, MMFA
CODNER Mary x Active c.1974 b.1889 Painting: Watercolour, Oil; Millinery (hat making); Drawing: Pencil, Caricature Drawing Truro, NS Played the violin
COFFIN Irene (Mrs C.C. Coffin) x b.1909 d.(?) Painting; Drawing Studied: Halifax, NS (Ruth Wainwright); Sorbonne, Paris Member: NSSA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
COFFIN Mrs. x Active c.1896 Painting; Drawing Hamilton, ON
COGILL Zema (see HAWORTH Zema) x x
COHEN Jean x x
COHEN Sorel x x Active c.1936
COLBECK Edna Honeyford x Active c.1892
COLBECK Elva x x Ceramics
COLBY Mrs. x Member: WAAC (commitee)
COLE Florence (see TRENHOLME Florence) x x
COLEMAN Diane x x
COLES Dorothy Rhynas x Active c.1920's-1930's Sculpture; Drawing: Pastels Montreal, QC
COLLEY Dorothy (see CARTER Dorothy) x x Active c.1903
COLLIE Annie Rose x b.1889 - Loch Monar, MB d.1951 - Winnipeg, MB Painting; Drawing: Pen and Ink
COLLINS, Ruth Mary b.1900 - England d.1970 - Toronto, ON Illustration  Studied with C.W. Jefferys Specialized in illustratons of dogs
COLLYER Nora Frances Elizabeth x x b.1898 d.1979 Painting Montreal, QC Studied: AAM, Montreal, QC (Alberta Cleland, William Brymner and Maurice Cullen) Member: CGP; FCA; Beaver Hall Group (Associate) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
COLOMBIER Mlle. x Active c.1892 Studied: Paris
COLSON Mabel Ethel x x b.1883 - Guelph, ON d.1970 - Toronto, ON Painting: Oil, Watercolour British father
COLTHURST Gladys Buller x x
COMÈTE Mme A. x Active c.1925 Mentioned in a student contest
COMPTON Miss x Taught: Winnipeg School of Art (applied to be principal?)(Winnipeg, MB) Studied: Winnipeg School of Art
CONNAUGHTON Alice x x Active c.1906 MMFA
CONNELL Dorothy x x
CONNOR Kathleen Irvine x Architecture
CONTANT Mme. x Active c.1925 Member: CHG
CONSTANTINE Henrietta Anne Armstrong b.1857 - Ottawa, ON d.1936 Photography Winnipeg, MB; Kingston, ON Records speak of her as a collector of First Nations/Inuit/Yu'pik crafts and artefacts. "Yu'pik, Iñupiaq and Athabaskan cultures, among others". It's unclear whether she in fact produced anything. An article mentions a photograph she would have taken of her home (see file). She would have sold collection to Agnes Etherington who would go on to open what is now the Agnes Etherington Art Center in Kingston
CONTRERAS Monica x Architecture
COOK Anne x x x
COOK Annie Isabella x b.1838 d.1916 Drawing ON
COOK-ENDRES Barbara x Active c.1922 Painting Studied: OCA (Rowley Murphy); Vancouver School of Art Member: MSA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
COOMBS Edith Grace Lawson (Mrs. James Sharp) x x b.1890 - Hamilton, ON d.1986 - St. Catharine, ON Drawing; Painting: Watercolour, Mural painting; Printmaking; Studied: OCA; New York School of Fine and Applied Art; Private Study (Emanuel Hahn, Toronto, ON) Member: FCA; HC Husband: James Sharp Lawson Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
COOMTE Grace E. x Active c.1925 Exhibited: RCA
COONAN Emily Geraldine x b.1885 d.1971 Painting Montreal, QC Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Conseil des Arts et Manufactures (Montreal, QC) Member: Beaver Hall Group Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
COOPER Alice x x
COOPER Alice Mary Charlton x x b.1870 - Durham, England Painting: Watercolour; Sculpture: Jewellry (metal work) British Toronto, ON
COOPER Emma (see LAMPERT Emma) x x
COOPER Harriet Davison Drummond x b.1873 - Blyth, ON Painting: Miniature Painting on Ivory Toronto, ON
COOPER Heather x x Active c.1945
COOPER Phyllis Field x Active c.1919 b.1834 - Chicago, IL, USA Drawing Winnipeg, MB
COOPER-JONES Gwyneth x Architecture
COPE Dorothy Walpole Stevens x x b.1915 Painting Studied: Vancouver School of Art; under Lionel Thomas Member: BCSA; CSPWC CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Document in C file
CORBETT Helena Mae x b.1885 - Windsor, ON (?) Painting North Dakota, USA
CORBOLD Caroline x x Active c.1933 MMFA
CORDY Miss Doris x Ceramics: Pottery BC
CORKUM Hilda Frances (Mrs. B.K. Corkum) x b.1925 Member: Vesper George School of Art (Boston, MA, USA); Under Henri Henshie (MA, USA); Under Ernest Fiene and John Laurent (Ogunquit, ME, USA) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).
CORME Sophie x Active c.1915
CORMIER Anne x Architecture
CORNELIUS Louise x x
CORNELIUS Miss x Active c.1892 Painting: Flower Painting "chinese primrose"
CORNELL Betty (see GALBRAITH Elizabeth Roberta) x x
CORNU Sophie x x
CORNWALL Sonia x x b.1919 - Kamloops, BC d. 2006 Painting Calgary AB; Cariboo Region, BC http://soniacornwall.com/
CORRIVEAU Jean D'Arc x x Active c.1931
CORSON Jennifer x x Architecture
CORY Anne x Architecture
COSGROVE Theresa Lenore x x Active c.1934
COSINDAS Marie x Architecture
COSTELLO Paula x Architecture
COTE Therese Tardif x x Active c.1926
CÔTÉ Marie A. x Architecture
COTTINGHAM Muriel Hartley x Active c.1889 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Pastels Winnipeg, MB
COUCILL Imra x Active c.1918 NGC, AGO, Library and Archives in Ottawa ON
COULSON Mrs B x x Active c.1895 made a "Crafts 'tea caddy'"
COULSON Samuel E. x x
COURTICE Rody Kenny (Roselyn Hammond; Mrs. Andrew Roy Courtice) x x x b.1891- Renfrew, ON d. 1973 Painting Studied: Chicago's Art Institue; OCA (Arthur Lismer, GA Reid, and JEH MacDonald); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France Member: CGP; ARCA; CSGA; CSPWC; FCA; HC; OSA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
COWAN Elenor L. x x
COWLEY Reta Madeline (born Summers) x x x b.1910 - Moose Jaw, SK d. 2004 Painting: Watercolour Studied: University of Saskatchewan (Augustus Kenderdine); Banff School of Fine Arts (WJ Phillips, Charles Comfort and HG Glyde) Member: CSPWC Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
COWPER COX Mme x Active c.1882 Painting: Watercolour
COX Diana W x x x
COX Edythe C x x Active c.1939
COYLE Mary A. x Architecture
CRABTREE Elvina Kennedy (born Greenham) x b.1848 - London, England d. 1962 - Ottawa, ON Drawing; Painting British
CRAGG Mona x x Active c.1933 Painting Exhibited: Montreal, QC
CRAIG Grace Morris (Morrice) x Active c.1891 d.1987? Architecture; Painting; Printmaking Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer, Yvonne Housser) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); Craig, Grace Morris "But This Is Our War" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981)
CRANSTON Dulcie Bella x x Active c.1900
CRAVITS Sophie x Active c.1937 Clara Lander
CRAWFORD A.W. x x
CRAWFORD Adeline B. x x
CRAWFORD Eugenia M. x x
CRAWFORD Florence A. x x
CRAWFORD Jean x
CRAWFORD Julia Tilley x x b.1896 - (?), NB d.1968 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Pastel Kingston, NB; St John, NB Studied: Pratt Institute (New York, NY, USA); Cape School of Art (Provincetown, CT, USA) Member: CSPWC, LALC Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CRAWFORD Mrs David Kilpin x x Active c.1900 Ceramics
CRAWFORD Mme. x x Member: WAAC (Secretary)
CRAWLEY Alice Marion Finnie x x Active c.1915
CREASE FAMILY
CREASE Barbara x x b.1857 - Antron, Cornwall, England d.1883 - Victoria, BC Painting: Watercolour Landscapes (often of coastal BC) British Sister to Josephine Crease, Mary Crease and Susan Crease. Daughter of Sarah Crease Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CREASE Josephine x x b.1864-New Westminster, BC d.1947- Victoria, BC Painting: Watercolour British Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CREASE Mary Maberly x x x b.1854-Antron, Cornwall, England d.1915- Victoria, BC Painting: Watercolour (painted views of Vancouver Island) British Mother: Sarah Crease. Sister: Barbara Crease, Josephine Crease and Mary Crease Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CREASE Sarah Lindley (Lady Sarah Lindley) x x x b.1826- Antron, Cornwall, England d.1922- Victoria, BC Painting: Watercolour (known for detailed depictions of colonial British Columbia); Drawing British. Immigrated to Vancouver Island with her husband  in 1858. Studied: Under Charles Fox, Sarah Ann Drake (London, England) Children: Barbara Crease, Josephine Crease, Mary Crease and Susan Crease Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CREASE Susan Reynolds x x x b.1855 - Antron, Cornwall, England d.1947 - Victoria, BC Drawing; Painting: Watercolour British Studied: Under Charles de L'Aubiniere, Georgina de L'Aubinière (Victoria, BC); King's College (London, England); Under Lottie Aliston, Ainslie Borrow Member: LACS Mother: Sarah Crease. Sister: Barbara Crease, Josephine Crease and Mary Crease Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CREELMAN Frieda I. Creighton x x b.1900 - (?), NS d.1967 Painting; Drawing (?) Taught children Studied: Under Arthur Lismer.
CRÈVECOEUR Jeanne de x b.1890 - (?) Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Member: Beaver Hall Group (Founding Member). Exhibited: AAM; RCA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CRICHTON Emma Charlotte x b.1838 - Swansea, Wales, UK d.1926 Painting Welsh
CRIST Lela Gurnee x x b.1894 - Sheet Harbour, NS d.1982 Painting: Miniature Painting Halifax, NS (1955) Studied: Under Elizabeth Nutt
CROMBIE Maureen x x
CROMPTON Mabel Ann Elizabeth x x Active  c.1916-1931 MMFA, NGC, Clara Lander
CROMPTON Sarah x Architecture
CROOKER Isabelle x x Active c.1939
CROOKS Evelyn Jean Lamont x x Active c.1904
CROSS Helen (see O'MANSKY Helen) x x
CROSSEN Sonia St Barbe x x Active c.1930
CROWNE Mrs George x x
CROZIER Jean Murray x b.1901 d.1972 Painting: Watercolour Studied: Morris Davidson Art School (Provincetown, CT, USA); OCA Member: CSPWC, OSA CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CRYDERMAN Mackie Veralaurine (born MacIntyre) x x b.1896 - Dutton, ON d.1969 - London, ON Painting: Oil, Watercolour; Ceramics; Sculpture: Jewellry, Metalwork, Wood carving; Printmaking: Engraving Member: SCPE Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CSEREPY Mary x x
CULVER Agnes Baxter x x b.1857 d.1904 Painting: Watercolour and Oil; Ceramics Montreal, QC; Winnipeg, MB
CUMMING Kate L. Taylor x x b.1889 - Ingersoll, ON d.1971 - London, ON Painting: Miniature, Watercolour Studied: Detroit College of Art; OCA (F McGillivray Knowles, GA Reid, A Forrester, Arthur Lismer, JW Beatty, Emanuel Hahn; Under Clare Bice Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CUMMING Vera Margaret x b.1921 - Medonte Township, Simcoe County, ON d.1996 Painting Toronto, ON; Jamaica (c.1945-1951); Taught summer school in St Pierre et Miquelon (NL) through U of T; St Hugh's (Kingston, Jamaica); Exhibited: Ontario College of Art Student Club (Toronto, ON 1945); Zwicker's Art Gallery (Halifax, NS 1940s) Studied: OCA (John Alfsen) - graduated 1945 Studied at OCA with: Tom Hodgson, Jo Manning, Harold Town, Jean Townsend, Albert Huie. Taught with: Edna Manley Husband: Basil McFarlane (Married: 1949, but their marriage only lasted a short while) Albert Huie studied at OCA and took Vera to Jamaica
CUMMINS Ethel M. x x x
CUMMINS Jane Catherine x x b.1841 - (?), ON d.1893 Painting: Oil, Watercolour Amherst Island, ON; Munich, Germany Studied: Under Otto Jacobi; Studied in Europe Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)
CUNNINGHAM Evelyn x     x Active c.1939                        
CURLEY Ellen   x x   Active c.1905     Fibres: Basket weaver First Nations (Nuu-chah-nulth nations) Opisat, BC              
CURRIE Marion     x         Architecture                  
CURRY Elizabeth Eleanor x x   x   b.1858 d.1941 Painting                  
CURRY Ethel Luella     x     b.1902 d.2000 Painting; Sculpture   Toronto, ON; Haliburton, ON Studied: Central Technical School (Toronto, ON); OCA (JW Beatty, Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
CURRY Peggy (Ethel Marie Curry; Mrs. S. L. Curry)   x x     b.1885 - Gosport, England d.1966 - (?),NS Painting British           CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has Biblio
CURTIS Carolyn       x   b.1903 d.1995 Painting     Studied: OCA (JEH MacDonald) Member: SCPE     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
CUTTLE Harriet Mcleod x x   x                          
CUTTS Gertrude Eleanor Spurr   x x     b.1858 - Scarborough, Yorkshire, England d.1941 - Port Perry, ON Drawing; Painting: Watercolour British   Studied: Scarborough School of Art (Albert Strange) - (London, England); Lambeth School of Art (John H Smith) - (London, England); Art Students League (George Bridgman) - (New York, NY, USA) Member: ARCA; OSA; TASL   Husband: William Cutts (Painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
CZOTTER Marika Gyongyossy   x   x Active c.1922                        
D                                  
D'AETH J.B.       x Active c.1925                        
D'ARCY Barbara M Conyers   x   x Active c.1933                   MMFA    
D'ENTREMONT Blaise       x   b.1920   Painting     Studied: Royal College of Art (Johannesburg, South Africa); Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB); Mount Saint Vincent University; Nova Scotia College of Art (Halifax, NS)       CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DAGENAIS Laurette (Lorraine?)       x Active c.1925                   MMFA, MAC and ArtTexte (files on Lorraine Dagenais)    
DAGENAIS-GOYER Dolores   x   x                          
DAFOE Elizabeth     x                            
DALE Greta   x   x Active c.1961                   MMFA    
DALE Margaret Mitzi   x   x                     Manitoba Crafts Museum    
DALE Marian (see SCOTT Marian)                                  
DALRYMPLE Barbara     x                            
DALY Geraldine D.   x   x                     CHIN, MMFA    
DALY Kathleen Frances (Mrs. George Pepper)   x x     b.1898 - Napanee, ON d.1994 - Toronto, ON Painting     Studied: OCA (JW Beatty, GA Reid, Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France); Under Rene Pottier (Paris, France) Member: CGP; ARCA; HC; OSA; RCA   Husband: George Pepper (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DALY Rita (Mary Marguerite Daly)   x x     b.1892 d.1963 Painting: Oil; Photography   Montreal, QC              
DALY Miss x x   x                          
DAMAZ Ala Marja Mendelsohn x   x         Architecture                  
DAMSELL Joyce     x         Architecture                  
DANDURAND G.   x   x                          
DANIELL Mary Bamfylde         Active c.1909 Born in England   Painting British                
DANIS Aimee   x   x                          
DANKS Hilda Margaret (Mrs. Walter F. Danks)   x   x   b.1893 - London, England d.1969 - Niagara Falls, ON Painting: Watercolour               MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
DANSEREAU Madeleine Maranda           b.1922 d.1991 Painting; Sculpture: Jewellry French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC              
DANSEREAU Mireille   x   x Active c.1943                        
DAOUST Sylvia (Marie Émillienne Sylvia Daoust; D'Aoust) x         b.1902 d.2004 Scultpure: Medal-making; Painting: Mural painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: Conseil des arts et manufactures (JC Franchere, JY Johnstone, Edmond Dyonnet, Joseph Saint-Charles) - (Montreal, QC); Ecole des beaux-arts (JB Legrace); Under Henri Charlier (Paris, France) Member: ARCA; ASQ; CSQ; RCA;  SAPQ; SSC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DARE Laure (see PRICE Laura)   x   x Active c.1939                   MMFA    
DARLING Mme. F x     x Active c.1906                       A Frank Darling (1850-1923) on CHIN is this her husband?
DARLING Mrs Thomas   x   x Active c.1895                        
DARRACH Anna   x   x                          
DAVENPORT Marie Crawley       x   b.1898 - Hull, City of Kingston-upon-Hull, England d.1975 - Saskatoon, SK Photography (?)   SK       Husband: Michael Davenport (Fives) Saskatoon Public Library    
DAVID Florence Meredith   x   x Active c.1850                        
DAVID Miss       x                          
DAVIDSON Beatrice Centner           b.1909 - Toronto, ON d.1986 - Toronto, ON Architecture                  
DAVIDSON C.G.   x   x                          
DAVIDSON Elizabeth Jane x                                
DAVIDSON Florence Edenshaw           b.1896 - Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, BC d.1993 Fibres: Textiles                  
DAVIDSON Frances   x   x                          
DAVIDSON Helen x       Active c.1870     Painting: Oil; Drawing: Pastels   Belleville, ON              
DAVIDSON J. Herbert   x   x                          
DAVIDSON Mrs. Harry x                                
DAVIES Margaret Elizabeth Regan   x   x Active c.1916                        
DAVIS Laura van Vetchen   x   x Active c.1911 (?) - New York, NY, USA                      
DAVIS Marie (Mary?)   x   x Active c.1939                        
DAVIS Phylis Weir   x   x Active c.1939                        
DAVISON Betty           b.1909 d.2000 Drawing; Painting; Printmaking   Ottawa, ON Studied: Ottawa, ON (Lionel Fosbery, Ernest Fosbery, Alma Duncan) Member: CAR; PDCC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DAWE Alice G.           b.1879 - North Bradley, Wiltshire, England d.(?) - Markham, ON Painting: Oil, Watercolour, Miniature Painting                  
DAWES Prudence Ann x x   x Active c.1917                   MMFA    
DAWSON B.   x   x                          
DAWSON F.A.   x   x                          
DAWSON Gwen   x   x                          
DAWSON Mlle.   x   x Active c.1892         Teacher              
DAY Beatrice   x   x Active c.1938         Montreal, QC              
DAY Fanny M   x   x                          
DAY Katherine           b.1889 - Orillia, Simcoe County, ON d.1976-Orillia, Simcoe County, ON Painting; Printmaking   Toronto, ON Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (Franz Johnston); OCA; Central School of Arts and Crafts (London, England); (Paris, France) - (Nicolas Eckman, Henri Jannot) Member: CSGA; SCPE     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
DAY Mabel Killam           b.1884 d.1963 Painting   Yarmouth, NS Studied: Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB); Robert Henri Art School (New York, NY, USA)            
DE GOULIER Kate x     x                     CHIN, MMFA    
DE GROOT Andrée S x     x Active c.1970 b.1908   Painting; Sculpture     Studied: Paris, France (Maurice Denis) Member: SCA     CHIN, Artexte Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DE GRUCHY Marion       x                          
DE JONG Shirley (see WALES Shirley)   x   x Active c.1931                        
DE NAGY Mary C       x   b.1919 d.2008 Sculpture       Member: OSA; SSC (President)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) from Buis List
DE PEDERY-HUNT Dora           b.1913 d.2008                    
DE ROUEN Jacqueline   x   x Active c.1936         Earnscliffe (Possibly Rue Earnscliffe in Montreal, QC)              
DE VLETTER Fiona (VLETTER Fiona) x x   x                          
DEBASSIGE Josette           b.1913 - Sagamok Indian Reserve, ON d.1986 Fibres: Basketry, Baket Making, Quillwork Anishanaabeg West Bay, Manitoulin Island, ON              
DEAN C.W.   x   x Active c.1947                        
DEANE Elsie   x   x Active c.1924     Drawing: Book Illustration   Toronto, ON (1926)              
DEAR-HESSON Audrey     x x Active c.1929     Craft; Art Education; Sculpture: Jewelry, Metal, Woodcarving; Ceramics: Pottery                  
DEFAUW Jeanne   x   x Active c.1940         Montreal, QC              
DEFOY Mlle J. x x   x Active c.1925         Montreal, QC              
DEGUERET Yvonne   x   x Active c.1921         Montreal, QC              
DEICHMANN Erica           b.1913 - Wisconsin, US d.2007 - Hampton, NB Ceramics; Pottery Danish             Photo credit in: Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art  2.5 (Summer 1945)  
DELACOURT Marjorie V.   x   x Active c.1921         Montreal, QC              
DELASALLE Madeleine x     x   b.1909 d.1985     Montreal, QC              
DELFOSSE Aline C.   x   x Active c.1929         Montreal, QC              
DELFOSSE Madeleine           b.1909 d.1985 Painting: Mural painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Joseph Saint-Charles)     Father: Georges Delfosse (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); 1964 NFB documentary "Crafts of my Province" which she narrates and is featured in  
DELORME Mrs.                                  
DEMING Charlotte (alternately Denning) x       Active c.1833-1974 b.(?) - Pattsburg, NY   Painting: Miniature   Montreal, QC (?); Clarenceville, Eastern Townships, QC(?)              
DEMSTER Elizabeth I.   x   x                          
DÉNÉCHAUD Simone           b.1905 d.1974 Drawing; Painting; Sculpture: Metal work French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal, QC)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DENIS Léonie   x   x Active c.1924                   MMFA    
DENNIS Clara x         b.1881- Truro, NS d.1958-Halifax(?), NS Photography; Artist's book                  
DENNIS Eva Aileen (born Milton)         Active c.1904     Painting   ON              
DENNISON Emily x x   x                          
DENNISTOUN Mary (see KIRKPATRICK Mary)   x   x                          
DEPEW Agnes           b.(?) - Embro, ON d.1978 - Sarnia, ON Painting: Watercolour, Oil                  
DEPEW Verna Viola       x   b.1894 d.1992 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: OCA; GA Reid (Toronto, ON); JR Seavey (Hamilton, ON); Cleveland School of Art Member: AGH; CSGA; SCPE; WAAH       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DEROCHE Bessie Bogart   x   x Active c.1923     Painting   Montreal, QC              
DERRICK Ethel   x   x                          
DES CLAYES Alice           b.1890 - Aberdeen Grampian, Scotland- d.1968 Painting; Watercolour Scottish Montreal, QC; England Studied: Bushey School of Art (England) (Lucy Kemp Welch, Rowland Wheelwright) Member: ARCA; CSPWC   Siblings: Berthe des Clayes (painter) and Gertrude des Clayes (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DES CLAYES Berthe           b.1877 - Aberdeen, Scotland d.1968 - Devon, England Painting; Watercolour Scottish   Studied: (Bushey, England) Hubert von Herkomer; Academie Julian (Paris, France) - (Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre)     Siblings: Alice des Clayes (painter) and Gertrude des Clayes (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Twice winner of Jessie Dow prize
DES CLAYES Gertrude x         b.1879 - Aberdeen, Scotland d.1949 - London, England Painting Scottish   Studied: (Bushey, England) Hubert von Herkomer; Academie Julian (Paris, France) - (Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre) Member: ARCA; NPS   Siblings: Alice des Clayes (painter) and Berthe des Clayes (painter)      
DESAUTELS Aime x x   x   b.1921 d.1999                    
DESLAURIERS Geneviève Bourgeois x     x   b.1917   Painting; Sculpture             CHIN, NGC, Arttexte, MAC    
DESMARAIS Amanda   x   x                          
DESPARD Amy Constance         Active c. 1940     Painting       Exhibited: OSA          
DESROCHERS-DROLET Françoise           b.1921 d.(?) - Beauport, QC Ceramics; Painting: Enamel French-Canadian, Québécoise                
DESROCHES-NOISEUX Magdeleine           b.1917 d.(?) - Montreal Painting; Sculpture: Jewellry French-Canadian, Québécoise                
DESROSIERS Madeleine x         b.1904 - Montreal, QC d.1994 - Quebec, QC Painting; Drawing: Illustration French-Canadian, Québécoise                
DESY Pauline   x   x                          
DEUTSCHER Joyce Dew x     x   b.1925   Painting: Watercolour; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: Queen's University (Kingston, ON); School of Art and Design (MMFA); Emma Lake Artists' Workshops (SK)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DEVENYI Ester B   x   x                          
DEVLIN Maud   x   x                          
DEWHURST Barbara                                  
DIBBEN Adele Oxley                                  
DICEMAN Mary Yvonne       x   b.1921 d.2001 Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Manchester School of Art; Donald Stone (Rockport, MA, USA) Member: NSAA; OSPWC; OWCSC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has Biblio
DICK Dorothy J (born Swan)       x   b.1887 d.1967 Sculpture     Studied: Alfred Gilbert, RA; Studied in Holland         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DICK-SANDERSON Mrs M.       x Active c.1906         Toronto, ON              
DICKEY Estelle           b.1897 - Victoria, BC d.1981 - Vernon, BC Photography: hand-tinted                  
DICKIE Evelyn       x   b.1903   Fibres: Quiltmaking, Textiles   Meagher's Grant, NS         Folk Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia    
DICKINSON Sara x x   x Active c.1897                        
DICKSON Elizabeth       x               Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (1904 exhibition)          
DICKSON Jennifer Joan   x   x Active c.1936                        
DICKSON PATTERSON Mrs. (Edythe Lalande?)       x Active c.1904                 Husband: Andrew Dickson Patterson (b.1854-d.1930)     2 documents in D file. Andrew Dickson Patterson, a painter, married an Edyth Lalande in 1901 according to MacDonald's. File for him at the MMFA.
DIDIER Ida Joy         Active c. 1858     Painting   Tilsonburg, ON              
DIESING Freda (aka Kant Wuss, Skill-kew-wat & Wee-hwe-doasl)           b.1925 - Prince Rupert, BC d.2002 - Terrace, BC Sculpture: Wood carving, Jewellry; Printmaking First Nations (Sadsugohilanes Clan of the Haida)                
DIGNAM Mary Ella (born Williams; Mrs. John Sifton Dignam) x         b.1860 - Port Burwell, ON d.1938 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour   Teacher Studied: Art Students League (New York, NY, USA); William Merrit Chase Member: HC; WAAC (Founder)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DILLON Miss x     x Active c.1896         Toronto, ON              
DIMITROV Olga x x   x Active c.1933                        
DINEON Valeria       x Active c.1927     Sculpture: Stained Glass                  
DINGLE Mrs G.S.       x Active c.1925     Painting                  
DINGLE Ruth Marion (Mrs. Peter Douet)       x   b.1908 d.1980 Painting     Studied: AAM (Arthur Lismer); Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal, QC)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DINGMAN Mary F   x   x                          
DINNING Margaret     x         Architecture                  
DION Blanche     x   Active c. 1927     Painting; Drawing French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC              
DIONNE Madeleine       x Active c.1936     Painting                  
DIONNE Marie Rose     x   Active c.1927-35     Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts            
DIONNE Nathalie     x         Architecture   Exhibited: Ecole des Beaux-Arts (almuni); Eaton Student: Ecole des Beaux-Arts;            
DIONNE Therese   x   x                          
DOBELL Sybil (see ROBERTSON Sybil)     x                            
DOBSON Katherine Margaret       x   b.1860 d.1943               Archives of Ontario    
DODWELL Isabella     x   Active c.1933     Painting: Oil; Drawing: Pastel   Montreal, QC   Member: Modern French Art Association of Montreal Illustrators          
DOELLE Mrs. Eva     x         Architecture                  
DOERNBACH Marguerite Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1917                        
DOGGETT Meave O'Bryne   x   x                          
DOHERTY Elizabeth Ann     x         Architecture                  
DONALD Adelaide (see WEBSTER Adelaide)   x   x                          
DONLY Eva Marie Brook (born Williams)           b.1867 d.1941 Painting; Watercolour   Simcoe, ON Studied: Alma College (ON) (FM Bell-Smith); San Carlos Academy (Mexico) (Jose M Pino) Member: AWCS       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DONNELLY Lillian E   x   x Active c.1910         Montreal, QC              
DORAN Audrey M Capel x x   x Active c.1931                        
DORAN Margaret Felicite Heney   x   x                          
DORAN Maud E.   x   x                          
DORE Mlle. Esther (Esther BEAULAC DORR?)       x Active c.1933                        
DOUBILET Susan     x         Architecture                  
DOUET Ruth Marion (Ruth Marion Dingle)     x     b.1908 - Calgary, AB d.1980 Painting; Ceramics: Pottery (?)   ON         CHIN    
DOUGLAS Chrystie (Christie) Ludlow   x   x Active c.1933 b.1900 d.1960                    
DOUGLAS Eleanor     x     b.1872 d.1914 Painting: "painter of woods"   Toronto, ON; NY, USA (?)   Member: Roycroft   Cousin: Carl Ahrens      
DOUGLAS Hortense P.A.     x   Active c.1922     Painting   Montreal, QC              
DOUGLAS Lady Anne     x     b.1780 d.1854 Painting British         Husband: Lieutenant-Governor      
DOUGLAS Myriam       x Active c.1924                        
DOUGLAS Velda       x       Yard Artist   Teeswater, ON              
DOUGLASS Lucille   x   x       Etching   Montreal, QC              
DOULL Mary Allison     x     b.1866 d.1953 Painting: Miniatures on ivory; Ceramics: Pottery   PEI              
DOWNSLEY E   x   x                          
DOYLE Katie   x   x Active c.1906                        
DREANY Freda Johnston     x   Active c.1940-70 b.(?) - Toronto, ON d.(?) - Springdale, Connecticut Painting; Drawing: Pastels     Studied: OCAD           lived and worked through WWII, 50's and 70's, etc…
DREW Jane     x         Architecture                  
DROBHAN Joyce     x         Architecture                  
DROLET-COTE Monique       x Active c.1931-60                   MMFA    
DROUIN Micheline   x   x Active c.1935-64     Ceramics             MMFA   There is a DROUIN, Michèle born in 1933, but she is a painter. This Micheline is a ceramist.
DROYE Norma   x   x                          
DRUMMOND Bernice Eileen (born Thompson)   x   x Active c.1947 b.1905   Painting; Printmaking: Etching     Studied: OCA (JEH MacDonald, Arthur Lismer); Under Wilfred Flood (Ottawa, ON)       CHIN, NGC, AGO Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has Biblio
DRUMMOND Betty Jean   x   x Active c.1919                        
DRUMMOND H.D.   x   x                          
DRUMMOND Harriet O   x   x                          
DRUMMOND Jeanie Redpath   x   x                          
DRUMMOND Moira Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1904     Painting   Westmount, QC; Montreal, QC              
DRUMMOND Sophie (see PEMBERTON Sophie)   x   x   b.1862 - Cork, Ireland-London, England d.1949 - Victoria, BC Painting: Noted animal painter   Taught: Banff, AB (1920s)       Father: painter. Sister: Specialized in miniature painting      
DRUMMOND-DAVIES Nora     x                            
DRUTZ June Selznick   x   x   b.1920 d.2007 Painting; Printmaking   Toronto, ON Studied: OCAD (Freg Hagan, Carl Schaefer, William Roberts) Member: ARCA; CSGA; OSA; PDCC; RCA; SCPE; SCPWC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DRYER, Margaret Synge (Pegeen Synge)                                  
DUBA Zoya     x         Architecture                  
DUBÉ Mme Louis Théodore Dubé (born Mattie Jane Thweatt) x   x   Active c.1900-15 b.1861 (*1854) - Clarendon, Monroe County, AR, USA d.1944 - Monte Carlo Painting: Mural decorator, Portrait   Montreal, QC (?); Paris (Paris Salon); Switzerland Studied: Academie Julian (Paris, France) (William M. Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury); Boston (?); Munich(?)     Married a French-Canadian Husband: Louis Theodore Dube (painter: Miniature, Genre, Portrait) (Married: England 1888). Children: Theodora Dube (Painter)- (b.1889-d.1912) died young of tuberculosis. Mme Dube, M. Dube and their daughter all exhibited together.   http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa297.htm  
DUBOIS Violet Elizabeth Pick   x   x Active c.1914                        
DUBUC Judith     x         Architecture                  
DUCHESNAY Henriette-Julie-Anne (married Major Thomas-Edmund Campbell in 1841)     x     b.1813 - Beauport, QC d.1873 - Saint-Hilaire-de-Rouville, QC Painting: Miniature French-Canadian, Québécoise         Grandfather: Charles de Salaberry (officer in the British Army in Lower Canada)   http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/viger/content/autre/duchesnay_henriette.shtm  
DUCHESNE Hélène     x         Architecture                  
DUCLOS Grace Gillelan   x   x                          
DUDLEY Carol Reid   x   x c.1908                        
DUFF Ann MacIntosh   x   x c.1925   d.(?) - Toronto, ON Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Central Technical School (Toronto, ON) (Peter Haworth, Doris McCarthy, Dawson Kennedy); Queen's University (Andre Bieler, Caven Atkins) Member: ARCA; CSGA; CSPWC; OSA; PDCC; PLS; RCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DUFF Annie Elexey     x     b.1873 - Carleton Place, ON d.1975 - New York, NY, USA Painting; Photography   Toronto, ON           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Worked as fashion designer for Vogue Magazine (1910-15) (source: McDonald's)
DUFFERIN Lady Hariot Georgina, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava (born Hariot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton)           b.1844 - Down, Northern Ireland d.1936 - London, England Painting: Watercolour British         Husband: 5th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (distant cousin of Dufferin) (Married: 1862), he became the Earl of Dufferin in 1871, and then became Governor General of Canada   Dufferin and Ava, Harriot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of "Our Viceregal Life in India" (London: J. Murray, 1889) ; Dufferin and Ava, Harriot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of "My Canadian Journal" (London: J. Murray, 1891); Dufferin and Ava, Harriot Georgina Blackwood, Marchioness of "My Russian and Turkish Journals" (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1916)  
DUFFY Aileen Plasket (Aileen Anne Plaskett)       x   b.1905 - London, England d.(?) Painting                 Document in D file
DUFFY Helen x x   x Active c.1923                        
DUFORT Gideon       x       Fibres: Textiles, Spinning, Homespun, Weaving   Baie St-Paul, QC             Coronation gift to Queen Mary
DUFOUR Mlle C.       x Active c.1929           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
DUFRESNE Hèlene       x Active c.1930           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
DUFRESNE Marie Josée     x         Architecture                  
DUGALD (see SINCLAIR MRs.)   x   x                          
DUGGAN Ivy   x   x                          
DUGGAN Kathleen   x   x Active c.1950     Painting   Montreal, QC              
DUHEM Mme.       x Active c.1909         Montreal, QC              
DUKE Doris May     x     b.1884 - London, England   Drawing British, moved to Canada 1910 Vancouver, BC (1925)              
DUKES Caroline   x   x   b.1929 d.2003                    
DUMONT Marie Alice           b.1882 d.1985 Photography French-Canadian, Québécoise Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, QC              
DUMOUCHEL Suzanne (born Beaudoin)           b.1920   Painting; Printmaking French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts; Sorbonne (Paris, France) Member: SAPQ   Husband: Albert Dumouchel (artist)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DUNCAN Alice McLaren x   x   Active c.1879     Painting   Colborne, ON Studied: Concordia University (Graduate Student in 1970)            
DUNCAN Alma Mary x         b.1917 - Paris, ON d.2004 - Ottawa, ON Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Design; Film animation     Studied: Adam Sheriff Scott, Ernst Neumann, Goodridge Roberts, F McGillivray Knowles Member: AAM; CAR; CSGA; FCA; PDCC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DUNCAN Dorothy   x   x   b.1903 d.1957                    
DUNLOP Elizabeth Maria x     x   b.1820 d.1883 Painting Immigrated to Canada after marrying her husband         Husband: Lieutenant Franklin Dunlop   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Sketched Ontario Quebec and the Maritimes. From Buis List
DUNLOP Gladys   x   x                          
DUNNING Mary Gordon   x   x                          
DUNNING Mrs. Fred E.   x   x                          
DUNNING Zoe (born Zoe Mary Hopkinson)     x     b.1877 - West-Dean-Chichester, Sussex, England d.1962 - Calgary, AB Painting; Drawing British Worked for the NFB   Member: Calgary Sketch Club (?)          
DUNNINGTON-GRUBB Mrs. H. B.     x                            
DUNTON Mrs. A. Davidson     x                            
DUPUIS-MAILLET Corinne     x     b.1895 d.1989 Painting; Drawing: Pastels French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC             Used Pseudonyms
DUQUET Suzanne (Marie Marthe Suzanne Duquet)           b.1917   Painting; Drawing: Illustration French-Canadian, Québécoise Taught: Ecole des Beaux-Arts; Radio Canada (wrote radio scripts, children's TV shows) Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
DURANLEAU Mme Adrien       x Active c.1935         Montreal, QC              
DURGIN Harriet Thayer x x   x                          
DURNFORD Elizabeth     x   Active c. 1830     Album-making: they include landscape, flora and fauna drawings, poems done by various people British Quebec, QC       Father: Lieutenant-General. Siblings: Jane Durnford and Mary Durnford   (Sotheby & Co Ltd. Catalogue 1972 in file at CWAHI)  
DURNFORD Jane     x   Active c.1854-60     Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Sketching British Lachine, QC; Toronto, ON       Father: Lieutenant-General. Siblings: Elizabeth Durnford and Mary Durnford      
DURNFORD Mary     x   Active c. 1856     Painting: Watercolour British         Father: Lieutenant-General. Siblings: Elizabeth Durnford and Jane Durnford   Her Memoir: Durnford, Mary "Family Recollections of Lieut. General Elias Walker Durnford" (Montreal: John Lovell, 1863)  
DURR Patricia Beth   x   x Active c.1939                        
DUSSEAULT Angéline (sœur Marie du Sacré-Cœur)     x     b.1887 - Trois-Riviere, QC d.1978 Drawing; Painting French-Canadian, Quebecoise Ursulines (Stanstead, QC)             She was a Nun
DUTTON Hazel I.   x   x                          
DUVERNET Ethel       x Active c.1896                 Possible Relatives: Henri Duvernet and Timothy Du Vernet      
DYNAM M.E. (see DIGNAM Mary Ella)                                  
DYNELEY Amelia Frederica     x     b.1830 - Leeds, England   Drawings British Montreal, QC (1847-1852); Ottawa, ON; Quebec, QC       Discrepancy in records: the Dictionary of Women Artists has her as the wife of a Dyneley; Public Archives of Canada has her as the daughter of Thomas Dyneley, Lieut.-General C. B.      
E                                  
EARL Maud     x   Active c.1880-1935 b. 1864 d.1943 Painting: Painter of animals, especially dogs. British. Immigrated to the US in 1917.                
EARL Mrs Paul x x   x                          
EARLE Agnes C       x Active c.1924     Painting                  
EARLE Peggy   x   x                          
EASTLAKE Mary Alexandra (born Bell)   x x     b.1864 - Douglas, ON d.1951 - Ottawa, ON Painting: Watercolour; Sculpture: Jewellry     Studied: AAM (Robert Harris); Art Students League (New York, NY, USA) (William Merritt Chase); Academie Colarossi (Paris, France); Academie Julian (Paris, France) Member: ARCA; RA; Boston Watercolor Society; London Pastel Society   Husband: Charles E. Eastlake (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
EASTMAN Antonia       x   b.1886 d.1972                    
EATON Maria x x   x                          
EATON Mrs. Rex     x         Architecture                  
ECHLIN Joan   x   x                          
ECKHARDT Barbara   x   x                          
EDENSHAW Isabella (K'woiyeng/Yahgujanaas/S'itkwuns)   x x     b.1842 - Klukwan Village, Alaska-Haida Gwaii, BC d.1926 Fibres: Basketry, Basket Weaving First Nations (Haida clan, member of Yakulanas - Raven - lineage.)         Husband: Charles Edenshaw (with whom she also worked with, he painted her baskets and hats). Grandchildren: Great-Granddaughter Isabel Rorick (contemporary basket-weaver from Haida Gwaii) who has the same Haida name (translated as "Red Moon")      
EDWARDS Henrietta (born Muir)   x x     b.1849 - Montreal, QC d.1931 - Macleod, AB Painting: China painting     Studied: Wyatt Eaton (New York, NY, USA) Member: Founder of 'Working Girl's Association' (now YWCA)  with the help of her sister, the National Council of Women of Canada with Lady Aberdeen       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Painted portrait of Sir Wilfred Laurier
EDWARDS Ida x x   x                          
EDWARDS MRs O.C. x x   x                          
EEKERKIK Martha Ikiperiak     x     b.1912 - Arviat (formerly Eskimo Ponit), Kivalliq Region, Nunavut d.1979 Fibres: Textiles Inuit                
EGERSZEGI Eva       x Active c.1973           Studied: Sir George Williams University (Concordia University)            
ELGIN Lady (Mary Louisa Lambton)     x     b.1819 - England d.1898 - Broomhall, Dunfermline, Scotland Painting British         Husband: James Bruce 8th Earl of Elgin, became the Governor General of Canada (1847-1854). Father: John Lambdon, Lord Durham, the 1st Earl of Durham      
ELIOT Lady Ruby       x               Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (1904 exhibition)          
ELIOT Mary R.   x   x                          
ELIOT Ruth Mary       x   b.1913 d.2001 Painting     Studied: Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Goodridge Roberts, George Pepper, FH Varley, Prudence Howard, AY Jackson Member: FCA     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) document in E file
ELKIN Anita (Anita Elkin Abramson)   x x     b.1922   Painting; Printmaking   Montreal, QC              
ELISEAPIK       x Active c.1961                        
ELLICE Katherine Jane Balfour x x x     b.1814 d.1864 Painting: Watercolour; Album-making British. travelled to Canada with her husband Beauharnois, QC           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ELLIOT Emily (Mrs J.E.)       x               Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (1904 exhibition)          
ELLIOTT J Emily x     x   b.1913 d.2001                    
ELLIOT Minerva     x         Architecture                  
ELLIOT Miss.       x Active c.1894     Painting, Watercolour                  
ELLIOTT Emily Louise (born Orr)     x     b.1867 - Montreal, QC d.1962 - Toronto, ON Painting; Drawing: Illustration     Studied: OSA (Toronto, ON); Art Students League (New York, NY, USA) (William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri) Member: Canadian Women's Press Club; HC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Musician and gardener. Avid collector and donated works to the Art Museum of the Grange (Toronto, ON)
ELLIOTT Sophy Louisa     x     b.1881   Painting; Drawing: Illustration   Montreal, QC; Westmount, QC           Elliott, Sophy L. "Women Pioneers of North America" (Gardenvale, QC: Garden City Press, 1914) Lectured on women pioneers. Wrote and illustrated the book  "Women Pioneers of North America"
ELLIOTT Velma   x   x                          
ELLIS Margaret B.   x   x                          
ELLIS Mrs A.A.       x       Fibres: Leatherwork   Vancouver, BC             Coronation gift to Queen Mary
ELMSLIE Mary     x         Architecture                  
ELPHIC Gertrude Jean (see HANSON Gertrude Jean)   x   x                          
ELROD Gladys F.       x Active c.1935                   MMFA    
EMIQUTAILAQ Mina   x x   Active c.1921     Sculpture: Carving Inuit Sanikiluaq, NU           http://www.katilvik.com/content/bio/view.php?bid=1662&criteria=community&q=Belcher%20Islands her son, George, has multiple search entries. She appears on several web galleries and auction websites.
EMORI Eiko   x   x Active c.1938                        
ENEUTSEAK, Columbia     x     b.1893 d.1959 Acting Inuit                
ENGLAND Kathleen Margaret x     x Active c.1999 b.1908 d.(?) Painting     Studied: Vancouver School of Art (Platon Ustinof); Thomas Fripp Member: FCA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ENNS Maureen   x   x Active c.1943                        
ERDRICH Nancy   x   x Active c.1920                        
ESHULUTAK Eleesapee   x x     b.1925   Fibres: Textiles; Drawing; Sculpture Inuit Kanirterjuak, Baffin Island, NU              
ESSEX Margaret Mary     x   Active c.1891     Drawing: Illustration; Design: Graphic Design   Toronto, ON              
ESTCOURT Caroline Polecrew Bucknall (born Pole Crew) x x x     b.1809 d.1886 Painting: Watercolour (known for Quebec winter scenes) British Montreal, QC; Niagara, ON; Maritimes       Husband: Sir James B Estcourt (Britush painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) accompanied husband on postings to Canada
ETHIER Mme               Design: Dressmaking                  
ETIDLOOIE Kingmeata x x x     b.1915 d.1989 Drawing; Painting; Sculpture; Printmaking Inuit Itinik camp near Lake Harbour, Cape Dorset, NU              
ETROG Sorel     x   Active c.1933     Architecture                  
EVANS Blanche B. x   x   Active c.1890's     Painting   Montreal, QC              
EVANS Doris E.   x   x                          
EVANS Mlle R.       x Active c.1896                        
EVANS Katharine Norcross (Mrs. Lynn)     x     b.1867 - (?), USA d.1930 - Nova Scotia Painting: Watercolour, China painting   Taught: China Painting (Victoria School of Art and Design, Halifax, NS) Studied: Pennsylvania Museum of Art            
EVELEIGH Jessie (Mrs J).       x Active c.1910     Ceramics                  
EVELEIGH Romany   x   x Active c.1934                        
EWAN Annie L   x   x                          
EWAN Gladys Kathleen (Mrs. George Ewan)       x   b.1911 d.1996 Painting             CHIN, UBC, NGC, AGO MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). document in E file
EWART Mary Clay       x   b.1861 - Philadelphia, USA d.1914 Painting: Watercolor             MMFA, NGC, Clara Lander    
EWEN Francoise (see SULLIVAN Francoise)   x   x Active c.1925                        
EXARCHOU Catherine (see GENSONNET Catherine)   x   x Active c.1921                        
EYDEN Jean       x Active c.1928                   MMFA, NGC, AGO, Clara Lander    
F                                  
FAED Helen       x Active c.1944     Painting   Toronto, ON             Honored by "civic and railroad dignitaries" along with the air force
FAHSBENDER Myrtle     x         Architecture                  
FAINMEL Marguerite Paquette   x x     b.1910 - St Henri, Montreal, QC d.1981 - Ile-des-Sœurs, QC Painting: Watercolour; Drawing; Printmaking; Anglophone mother and an Acadian father from New Orleans Paris, France; QC Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal, QC); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France); Arthur Lismer Member: CAS; FCA   Children: Ivan J. Fainmel (artist)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Bio/Biblio in progress
FAIRBAIRN Miss   x   x                          
FAIRCHILD Marian (Daisy) x     x       Home Industries (?)   Cape Breton, NB   Member: Cape Breton Home Industries          
FALCONAR E.N.   x   x                          
FALCONER Dora     x         Architecture                  
FALCONER Margaret   x   x                          
FALCONER Mrs K.       x Active c.1925     Drawing     Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts (?)            
FALK Gathie   x   x Active c.1928                        
FALKNER Mrs. J. W.     x         Architecture                  
FALTA Patricia Leds     x         Architecture                  
FARINI May L   x   x                          
FARISH Sarah Bond     x     b.1807 d.1887 Painting Grand-daughter of loyalists Yarmouth, NS              
FARLEY Lilias Marianne Ar de Soif   x   x   b.1907 d.1989 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: Vancouver School of Art (FH Varley, JEH MacDonald) Member: BCSA; SSC     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
FARNCOMB Caroline   x x     b.1859 - Newcastle, ON d.1951 - Sheldon, ON Painting   Paris, France; New York, NY, USA; London, ON           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FAULKNER Philippa Mary Burrows       x   1917 2001 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: Parsons School of Design (New York, NY, USA); Hans Hofmann (New York, NY; Provincetown, MA); Doon School of Fine Arts (ON) (Carol Schaefer, FH Varley, Clare Bice); Instituto Allende (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) Member: ALC; CSPWC; OSA; SCA     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
FAUTEUX Claire (Marie Claire Christine Fauteux) x x x     b.1890 - Montreal, QC d.1988 - Montreal, QC Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Taught: AAM. Paris, France; Montreal, QC Studied: AAM (William Brymner, Maurice Cullen, Arthur Lismer, Robert Pilot); Maurice Denis; Academie Julian (Paris, France) (under Guillaumat)     Great Grandfather: Jean Antoine Panet (the first speaker of the National Assembly of Lower Canada (1791)). Father: Charles Auguste Gustave (a lawyer and insurance agent in Montreal)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) was at the internement camp, Besançon for several months. She left May 1st 1941and went to Vittel until may 21st 1941
FAUTEUX-MASSÉ Henriette   x x     b.1924 d.2005 Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Coaticook, QC; Sainte-Adele, QC Studied: Academie Andre Lhote (Paris, France); Adrien Hebert, FS Coburn Member: AANFM; SAPQ   Husband: Jules Massé   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FEATHERSTONE Grace Lilian x   x     b.1880 - Montreal, QC d.(?) Painting   Hamilton, ON; Toronto, ON   Member: HC         Toronto Heliconian Club , still extant, has archives, but not accessible at the present time.
FEDIOW Pauline (see REDSELL) x     x   b.1908 d.1980                    
FEKETE Leslie     x         Architecture                  
FELDMAN Malca Tobman     x         Architecture                  
FELDSTED Carol     x         Architecture                  
FELLOWES Evelyn M. Ridout         Active c.1882     Painting: Animal painter - especially horses   Toronto, ON              
FELLOWS Eleanor Caroline (born Hill)     x     b.1831 d.1926 Drawing: (?) Sketching British. travelled to Canada with her husband Tottenham, Middlesex, England; Victoria, BC; Birmingham, Warwick, England; Vancouver Island, BC (for 5 years)              
FELLOWS Evelyn (see RIDOUT)       x   b.1882                      
FELSEN Phyllis       x Active c.1933     Sculpture   Modelling at Ecole des Beaux Arts (?)              
FELT Wanda     x         Architecture                  
FENERTY Emily     x     b.1877 d.1963 Painting   Halifax, NS              
FENWICK Kathleen M.       x Active c.1930 b.1901 d.1973         Exhibited: RCA          
FERGIE Mary     x   Active c.1947     Drawing; Painting   Montreal, QC              
FERGUSON Barbara Ann Ray     x         Architecture                  
FERGUSON Clara Bell     x     b.1887 d.1960 Painting   Moncton, NB; Amherst, NS              
FERGUSON Elizabeth G       x                          
FERRON Marcelle (Marcelle Ferron Hamelin)           b.1924 - Louiseville, QC d.2001 - Montreal, QC Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise   Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts  (Quebec, QC) (Jean Paul Lemieux, Simone Hudon); Ecole du meuble (Montreal) (Paul-Emile Borduas) Member: CAS; RCA; SAPQ       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) signed the Refus Globale manifesto 1948
FETHERSTONHAUGH P.       x                          
FIELDING x     x                          
FIENNES-CLINTON Eleanor     x     b.1886 - Cheshunt, England d.1976 - Hamilton, ON Painting British                
FIFE Gwen     x         Architecture                  
FILER Mary Harris           b.1920 - Edmonton, AB   Drawing; Painting: mural painting, Watercolour; Printmaking; Scultpure: Glass;   Vancouver, BC (2012) Studied: School of Art and Design (MMFA, Montreal, QC) (Arthur Lismer, Goodridges Roberts, Stanley Cosgrove, William Armstrong, Jacques de Tonnancour); McGill University (John Lyman) Member: CAS; CSGA; FCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FILION Pierette       x Active c.1935                        
FILION Yvette x     x Active c.1952                        
FINDLAY Margaret     x         Architecture                  
FINDLAY Jean Ness (see Ness)     x   Active c.1901     Painting   Montreal, QC; Kul-Kay-U Indian Reserve at Hartley Bay, BC; BC             buis list
FINE Phyllis Kurtz       x   b.1924 d.1978                    
FINLAYSON Isobel (born Isobel Graham Simpson)           b.1811 d.1890 Drawing: Pen and Ink; Painting British London, England; Red River, MB; Lachine, QC; London, England           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Husband was factor for Hudson's Bay Co. And Gov. Of Assiniboia
FISHER Agnes     x     b.1890   Painting; Sculpture   BC; Montreal, QC (exhibited)              
FISHER Amy x     x                          
FISHER Ethel M       x Active c.1906                   MMFA    
FISHER Florence L.                                  
FISKEN Miss       x Active c.1896     Drawing: "several very odd, but to us delightful little sketches of children"                  
FITZGERALD Clara (see OSLER Clara)                                  
FITZGERALD Helen Roberta (Mrs. John Steele, Mrs. Wilfred Bacon)       x   b.1919   Painting     Studied: Arts Students League (New York, NY, USA) (Reginald Marsh); OCA Member: CSGA; CSPWC; OSA     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). document in F file
FITZGERALD May       x                          
FITZGERALD Miss       x                          
FITZGIBBON Agnes Dunbar Moodie (Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon Chamberlin)           b.1833 - Cobourg, ON d.1913 - Toronto, ON Drawing: Artists' Illustrator Book; Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Under Susanna Moodie (Mother)     Mother: Susanna Moodie   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FLEMING Gertrude Vandelinder     x     b.1899 d.1973 Painting: Flower Paintings Dutch ancestry Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB   Member: AAM (?); OSA (?)          
FLETCHER Mrs. John x         b.(?)   Photography: Daguerrotypes   Montreal, QC; The Maritimes Studied: Under Daguerre (possibly)           Advertisement in the Montreal Weekly in 1841. Daguerre died a decade after her Montreal Weekly advertisement
FLEURY H.       x                          
FLEURY Mme Theo x     x Active c.1929                 Husband: Theodore Fleury (has file at MMFA)      
FLEWELLING Dorena       x   b.1909   Painting     Studied: Banff School of Fine Arts; Instituto Allende (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) Member: ASA; FCA     CHIN, Calgary Public Library (Arts Department), Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
FLOOD Eva I.       x                          
FLOOD Louise Barbara Black       x Active c.1903                        
FLOUD Phyllis Allen Ford       x                          
FLOYD       x                          
FODO Sharon     x         Architecture                  
FOGARTY Finola     x         Architecture                  
FOGT Mimi       x                          
FONTAINE Cecile       x Active c.1930           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
FONTAINE Ginette     x         Architecture                  
FORBES Elizabeth Adela Armstrong (Elizabeth Adela Stanhope)           b.1859 - Kingston, ON d.1912 - Newlyn, Cornwall, England Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking   Europe Studied: South Kensington School of Art (London, England); Art Students League (New York, NY, USA) (William Merritt Chase)     Husband: Stanhope A. Forbes (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FORBES Frances Kirkpatrick   x   x Active c.1911                        
FORBES Jean Mary Edgell (Mrs Kenneth Forbes) x x   x Active c.1932 b.1897 - Pakistan   Painting British   Studied: Chelsea South Polytechnice School (London, England) Member: ARCA   Husband: Kenneth Forbes (painter) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
FORBES Mary Kathleen (see RIORDON)   x                              
FORD Harriet (Hariet) Mary           b.1859 - Brockville, ON d.1938 - Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England Painting: Mural painting; Sculpture: Jewellery     Studied: OSA (Toronto, ON); St. John's Wood Art School (London, England); Academie Colarossi (Paris, France) Member: ARCA; OSA (Exhibited 1900 exhibition (applied and decorative arts))       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FORD Jean F   x   x                          
FORSYTH Mina Mabel x         b.1920 - Estevan, SK d.1987 Painting   SK (Contributed to Provincial Art Education) Studied: MB; Michigan, USA; Emma Lake Artists Workshops (SK)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FORTIER Kathleen E.   x   x Active c.1915     Ceramics                  
FORTIN Hélène x     x Active c.1871     Photographer                  
FORTIN Marie-Louis     x         Architecture                  
FORWARD Beryl V   x   x                          
FOSS Julie O.   x   x                          
FOSS Mrs (Julia?)       x Active c.1892                   MMFA (has a Julia Foss)    
FOSS Kate; Kay Fosse Hill ?       x Active c.1912         Taught: NSCAD Studied: Saint-John Art School   Students: Alice Mary Hagan (NSCAD)        
FOSTER Hazel           b.1884 - Carstairs, AB d.1974 - Calgary, AB Fibres: Textiles, Quilt making; Painting     Studied: H Wilson Foster (father); Nottingham Municipal School of Art (London, England) Member: EAC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FOSTER Hilsa Vincent   x   x Active c.1896                        
FOSTER Laurel G x x   x                          
FOSTER Muriel Aileen (Merle Foster)     x     b.1897 - Toronto, ON d.1986 - Cornwall, ON Sculpture; Painting               Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FOUGERAT Mme Emmanuel       x                   Husband: Emmanuel Fougerat (painter, has file on CHIN)     Unclear whether she was in fact an artist as well. she is listed as a dignitary of the school where Emmanuel Fougerat gave an address
FOULIS Jean M.   x   x                          
FOURDRINIER Emily Louise     x     b.1870 - Waterloo, QC d.1896 - Ottawa, ON Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise                
FOX Louise Cass   x   x                          
FOX Miriam H   x   x                          
FOX Winifred Grace McGill   x   x Active c.1909                        
FRAME Margaret (Margaret Josephine Geraldine Fulton Frame; Mrs. H. S. Beatty)           b.1903   Painting   Oxford, NS; Regina, SK (c.1914) Studied: James Henderson (SK); School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA); California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, CA, USA); Ecole des beaux-arts (Paris, France) (Emile Renard) Member: WAAC (Regina?)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FRAME Statira Elizabeth           b.1870 - Granby, QC d.1935 - Vancouver, BC Painting     Studied: Vancouver Night School     Husband: William Frame      
FRANCE Eurilsa Loomis x x   x                          
FRANCK Florence (see VALE) x x   x c.1909                        
FRANCOEUR Paule     x         Architecture                  
FRANCOIS-BARBAUD Katie   x   x                          
FRANKE Sandra     x         Architecture                  
FRANKENBERG Emme     x   Active c.1896     Painting   QC              
FRANKLIN Hannah   x   x Active c.1937                        
FRASER Annie Ermatinger     x     b.1873 - Kingston, ON d.1930 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Watercolour   Taught: Seattle, WA, USA           http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/singleitem/collection/ceww/id/192/rec/78 was primarily involved in writing
FRASER Carol Lucille Hoorn   x   x   b.1930 d.1991                    
FRASER Gladys M.   x   x                          
FRASER Margaret     x         Architecture                  
FRASER Miss L   x   x                          
FRASER Olive Hameley     x   Active c.1892     Painting   Montreal, QC; Ottawa, ON (1961)              
FRASER Viola M.       x Active c.1927     Sculpture: Stained Glass; Drawing     Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
FRAYN Constance Eleanor (born Whitely???)     x   Active c.1917 b.1887 - Bradford, West Yorkshire, England     British             Google books (A Passion for Music: A Biography of Richard S. Eaton
 By Matheson, Margaret C.) has a Constance Eleanor Fayn, born Whitely, who died in 1964; in this particular biography her artistic activities are not mentioned, she is the mother of a love interest of the main character; but her peculiar name and the fact that she is British concur. http://books.google.ca/books?id=_kbl2qtjWJgC&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&dq=frayn+constance+eleanor&source=bl&ots=4p4KIwSUp7&sig=Z-Qp9MwiTJJ_GxbCIi92dz7e6Tw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tSSBUeuEB5LyqwGfwICIBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=frayn%20constance%20eleanor&f=false
Born 1887 on our own file and on Artists in Canada, but her information form is ambiguous, it looks like an 1884
FRÉCHETTE Marie-Marguerite     x     b.1884 d.1964 Painting: Miniature French-Canadian Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC; San Diego, CA, USA (c.1920-30s)              
FREEDMAN Lillian   x   x   b.1908 d.1986 Painting Jewish Guelph, ON; Montreal, QC; New York, NY, USA              
FREEZE Yolande Lecieyewska     x         Architecture                  
FREIMAN Lillian           b.1908 d.1986 Painting     Studied: AAM (Edmond Dyonnet); Art Students League (New York, NY, USA); Studied in Paris, France         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FRENCH Betty (see MCCAUGHEY)   x   x Active c.1921                        
FRENCH Maida Parlow (Maida Doris Parlow Knowles) x   x     b.1891 d.1977 Drawing   Toronto, ON   Member: HC   Husband: from Buffalo, NY, USA      
FREYVOGEL Charlotte R.   x   x Active c.1930           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts Exhibited: AAM          
FROST Elizabeth       x Active c.1933     Painting: "sa peinture est virile, presque brutale"                  
FRY A. Joanna   x   x                          
FRY Beatrice (Bessie) Emma Adelaide  (see SYMONS Mrs.)   x   x   b.1884 d.1976 Painting; Printmaking: Etching     Studied: England Member: BCSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
FRY Joanne A.       x Active c.1915                   MMFA    
FUGLER Grace   x   x   b.1915 d.1992 Printmaking: Engraving     Studied: Hamilton School of Art; Hamilton Technical Institute (John Sloan Gordon) Member: SCPE     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) document in F file
FULFORD Alice Mary     x   Active c.1850-1922     Painting: Watercolour British England; Montreal, QC              
FULFORD Patricia Parsons   x   x Active c.1935                        
FULLER Gwendolyn Mary Norris   x   x Active c.1896                        
FULLER Miss L.     x   Active c.1880     Painting: Watercolour   Exhibited: QC              
FULLERTON Miss.   x   x                          
FYLES Faith     x     b.1875 - Cowansville, QC d.1961 - Ottawa, ON Painting: Watercolour; Drawing; Photography                  
FYSHE Avis Selina     x   Active c.1896 b.1886 - Halifax, NS   Design: Graphic design   Montreal, QC              
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GABARD Mme A. (Mme Octave Gabard?)       x Active c.1900     Fibres: Lace Embroidery   Montreal, QC              
GABARD Laura       x Active c.1900     Fibres: Lace Embroidery   Montreal, QC              
GABLER Ann Lawson Shepherd       x   b.1833 d.1917                 (letter by grandaughter)  
GADBOIS Denyse (Mme Denyse Chaput)   x x   Active c.1921     Painting: Mural Painting; Sculpture French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: AAM (Goodridge Roberts); Academie Julian (Paris, France) Member: CAS   Mother: Marie Gadbois (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GADBOIS Louise (Marie Marguerite Louise Landry)   x x     b.1896 d.1985 Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC Studied: Edwin Holgate (Montreal, QC); AAM (Montreal, QC) (John Lyman) Member: CAS   Children: Denyse Gadbois (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GAGE Frances Marie x x x   Active c.1924     Sculpture: Medals   Windsor, ON Studied: OCA (Emanuel Hahn); Art Students League (New York, NY, USA); Ecole des beaux-arts (Paris, France); Saupique; Leygue; Zorach Member: ALS       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GAGEN Caroline S x x   x                          
GAGNÉ Eugenie (Mme Edouard C.) x x x   Active c.1890     Photography French-Canadian, Québécoise Montreal, QC              
GAGNON Jocelyn     x         Architecture                  
GAGNON Mlle M.A. x     x Active c.1908     Fibres: Sewing, Textiles   Taught: Conseil des Arts et Metiers (Director of Sewing Program) (Montreal, QC)              
GALBRAITH Clara E.   x x   Active c.1895-1900     Painting; Ceramics   Hamilton, ON   Member: WAAC (Hamilton, ON) (Founding Member)          
GALBRAITH-CORNELL Betty (Elizabeth Roberta)   x   x Active c.1964 b.1916   Painting     Studied: Weston School (Montreal, QC) (Miss AB Stone, Wildred Barnes); AAM (Adam Sheriff Scott, Harold Beament) Member: RDSL     CHIN, Ellen Gallery Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) document in G file. "Ivan Faimel y expose"
GALERNEAU, Germaine     x     b.1905   Textiles                  
GALT Jocelyn   x   x Active c.1927                        
GALTIER-BOISSIERE Mme       x Active c.1909         Exhibited: AAM(?)              
GAMACHE Janine   x   x Active c.1931                        
GAMBLE Millie (Mildred Gamble)   x x     b.1887 - Cascumpec, PEI d.1986 - Cascumpec, PEI Photography   Winnipeg, MB (3 years)              
GANDIER Joan Alberta Gilmour   x   x   b.1925 d.2002                    
GANGNON Patricia x x   x Active c.1937                        
GARDHAM Addi   x   x Active c.1917                        
GARDNIER A   x   x                          
GARDINER Lucille       x Active c.1945             Member: Contemporary Art Society (Assistant to the Secretary)          
GARTHINS   x   x                          
GARWOOD Audrey Elaine   x   x   b.1927 d.2004                    
GASS Mabel McCulloch (Mrs. Donald M. Gass)   x x   Active c.1977 New Glasgow, NS   Painting                  
GASS Marjorie Earle   x x     b.1889 - Saint-John, NB d.1928 - Montreal, QC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner, Maurice Cullen)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GAUDET Alice   x   x                          
GAULT Georgia M.   x x   Active c.1928     Painting   Montreal, QC              
GAUTHIER-CHARLEBOIS Alyne   x x     b.1908 - Montreal, QC d.1955 Painting; Printmaking French-Canadian, Québécoise                
GEDDES Frances Mildred   x x   Active c.1888 b.(?) - Oxfordshire, England d.(?) - Toronto, ON Painting                  
GELDART Mary E   x   x                          
GENDRON Anne Marie     x   Active c.1927     Painting; Design: graphic design French-Canadian, Québécoise Taught: Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Montreal, QC) Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts            
GÉNÉREUX Marie Arline   x x     b.1897 d.1987-QC Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Design: Graphic design French-Canadian, Quebecoise Levis, QC; Montreal, QC; New York, NY, USA   Involved in translation     NGC, AGO    
GENUSH Luba   x x     b.1924 - Odessa, Ukraine   Drawing; Painting; Computer Art; Collage; Printmaking Ukrainian Montreal, QC Studied: Kiev Art School (Kiev, Ukraine); Vienna, Austria; Ecole du meuble (Montreal, QC) Member: CSGA; SAP; SAPQ; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GEOFFRION Mlle C.       x Active c.1908         Taught: Conseil des Arts et Metiers     Worked with: Mlle MA Gagnon at the Conseil des arts et metiers        
GERSON Kate x   x         Architecture                  
GERSOVITZ Julia     x         Architecture                  
GERSOVITZ Sarah (Sarah Valerie Gamer)   x x     b.1920 - Montreal, QC d.2007 - Montreal, QC Printmaking; Sculpture; Painting     Studied: MMFA (Jacques de Tonnancour, Gordon Webber, Moe Reinblatt); L'institut des arts appliqués (Montreal, QC) (Louis Parents) Member: ARCA; CSGA; RCA; SAPQ; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Involved in playwriting
GERSTENBERGER Lujza   x   x Active c.1912                        
GERVAIS Lise   x   x Active c.1933 b.1933 d.1998 Painting; Sculpture             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009)  
GERVAIS Suzanne   x   x                          
GESNER Gladys Mary   x x   Active c.1906 b.(?) - Halifax, NS   Painting   Halifax, NS              
GEYMONAT A.M.   x   x                          
GHATTAS Lilian     x         Architecture                  
GIBB Amy   x   x Active c.1950     Painting   Montreal, QC              
GIBBONS Dorothy   x   x                          
GIBSON Bessie   x   x                          
GIDDINGS Beatrice   x   x Active c.1906                   MMFA    
GIFFORD Hilda     x         Architecture                  
GIGUERE E Louise de Montigny (see MONTIQGNY GIGUER)   x x   Active c.1878 b.1874 d.1969 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Conseil des Arts et Manufactures (Montreal, QC); Alfred Laliberte (Montreal, QC)            
GIL Minnie       x Active c.1897                        
GILBERT Helen Mar x x   x                          
GILBERT MARIE Soeur (Cécile Marais)     x   Active c.1965     Painting; Printmaking French-Canadian, Québécoise                
GILBRIDE Mrs. R. G.     x                            
GILL Mary Catherine   x x     b.1861 - Pierreville, QC d.1946 - Lennoxville, QC Painting: Oil French-Canadian, Québécoise                
GILLETT Violet Amy   x x     b.1898 - Liverpool, England d.1996 - Perth-Andover, NB Drawing: Book illustration; Painting; Sculpture British             Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GILLIAT EATON Rosemary x x x     b.1919 - England d.2004 - Cole Harbour, NS Photography British Sri Lanka (Ceylon)              
GILMOUR x x   x                          
GILMOUR Mary C. x x x   Active c.1930     Painting   Montreal, QC              
GILSON Enid A.   x   x                          
GILSON Jacqueline Marie Charlotte       x   b.1912 - France   Painting French. Immigrated to Canada 1950 Toronto, ON. Became professor of painting and religious embroidery Studied: Ateliers d'art sacre (Paris, France) (Maurice Denis, Georges Desvallieres)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) document in G file
GILVERSON Queenie Viola (Queenie Viola Sorley)   x x     b.1890   Painting   Toronto, ON. Studied: Art League of New York Exhibited: RCA Friends with Mrs. Maida Parlow Knowles (also Maida Parlow French Knowles)       Enthusiastic antiques collector.
GINGRAS Leah, A     x         Architecture                  
GIRARD Théophile       x       Fibres: Textiles, Weaving   Ste Ireborn, QC             coronation gift to Queen Mary
GLADU Jeannette   x   x Active c.1939                        
GLEASON Helen H   x   x                          
GLEASON Miss       x Active c.1911                        
GLEASON MRs. Arthur   x   x Active c.1911                        
GLEGG Sarah Turton     x         Architecture                  
GLEN Edith M.   x   x                          
GLENDENNING Ada May     x     b.1888 - Wiarton, ON   Painting   Melfort (SK?); Hamilton, ON              
GLYDE Hilda   x   x                          
GNAEDINGER Elaine   x   x                          
GODBOUT Mme Joseph       x Active c.1907     Painting   Sainte-Hyacinthe, QC              
GODFREY Mary S   x   x                          
GOLDBERG Regina Seiden   x x     b.1897 - Rigaud, QC d.1991 - Montreal, QC Painting Jewish   Studied: Edmond Dyonnet, William Brymner and Maurice Cullen (Montreal, QC); Academie Julian (Paris, France) Member: BHG   Husband: Eric Goldberg   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GOLDMAN Harriet   x   x                          
GOLDSMITH Marion x x   x Active c.1927                        
GONTCHAROVA Nathalie       x Active c.1929     Painting                  
GOO Eshalook (Iqaluq Petaulassie)   x x     b.1914 d.1989 Printmaking Inuit Cape Dorset, NU             Some examples of prints under Petaulassie http://www.ulag.ca/db/items/browse/tag/Petaulassie
GOOD Cathy   x   x                          
GOODFELLOW Medora x x   x                          
GOODIER Marina   x   x Active c.1906                        
GOODWIN Betty (Betty Roodish Goodwin)   x x     b.1923 - Montreal, QC d.2008 - Montreal, QC Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Installation; Sculpture Jewish   Studied: Sir George Williams University (Concordia) (Yves Gaucher) Meber: CSGA; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GORDANIER Addie   x   x                          
GORDON Elva x   x         Architecture                  
GORDON Hortense Crompton (born MATTICE)     x     b.1889 - Hamilton, ON d.1961 - Hamilton, ON Painting     Studied: Hamilton School of Art; Provincetown, MA (Hans Hofmann) Member: Painters 11; ARCA; CAH; CSGA   Husband: John Sloan Gordon (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GORDON M.C.   x   x                          
GORDON Margaret x x   x                          
GORDON Miss I.                                  
GORE Millicent   x   x                          
GORMLEY Anna   x   x Active c.1894                   MMFA    
GOSSAGE Edith (see CHATFIELD Edith)   x   x Active c.1906                        
GOSSE Kerry Lynn     x         Architecture                  
GOSSELIN Mme Joseph       x Active c.1925     Textiles       Member: CHG   Husband: Joseph Louis Gosselin (b.1898)      
GOUDIER Marina       x       Painting         Exhibited with Paraskeva Clarke        
GOULD Stella (see GRIER Stella)   x   x   b.1898 d.1994                    
GOURDAULT Mme Martin       x Active c.1924     Painting                  
GRAEB Margaret   x   x Active c.1966     Sculpture                  
GRAFTON Lennox     x         Architecture                  
GRAHAM Kathleen (Kay) Margaret Howitt   x   x   b.1913 d.2008 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: self-taught Member: ALC, ARCA Friends with Jack Bush     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GRAHAM Mary Kate (Minnie)   x x     b.1859 d.1948 Painting     Studied: VSAD teacher program graduate - art education            
GRAHAM Monica   x   x                          
GRAHAM Sylvia Chaplin x   x         Architecture                  
GRANT Beatrice Leichenstein   x   x   b.1909   Painting; Drawing     Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer, Grant MacDonald); JW Beatty (Port Hope, ON); NSCAD (Stanley Royle, Elizabeth Styring Nutt) Member: NSSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
GRANT Kathleen       x Active c.1940 b.1913   Painting             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). document in G file
GRANT Mary   x x     b.1857 **1817-? According to Artists in canada, OR 1872 in Huntington, QC., (according to Magdeleine Bertrand's thesis) d.1957 Painting   BC              
GRANT Rita       x Active c.1933     Painting   Exhibited: Eaton Gallery              
GRAUER Gay Sherrard (Sherry)   x   x Active c.1939                        
GRAVEL Cecilia       x Active c.1927     Design: Poster Design, Graphic Design                  
GRAVEL Raymonde   x x     b.1913 - Montreal, QC   Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise   Studied: John P Wicker's School of Fine Art (Detroit, MI, USA); Academie Julian (Paris, France) (Pierre Eugene Montezin, Joseph Berges, Paul Andre, Jean Eschbach, Jules Adler) Member: AAM; OSA; WAA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GRAY Katherine E.   x x   Active c.1927-35     Painting; Printmaking   Exhibited in Montreal              
GRAY Una     x     b.1873 d.1975 Drawing   NS     Alice Mary Egan Hagen modelled for her       Was imprisoned in a concentration camp in France because of her underground work.
GRAYSON Vaughan (Mrs. A. J. Mann, Vaughan Grayson-Mann. Ellen, Kirk, Mann)   x x     b.1894 - Moose Jaw, SK d.1995 - Moose Jaw, SK Drawing; Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking   Kalamalka Lake, BC(?) ; Taught: University of Saskatchewan; Banff, AB Studied: Columbia University (Fine Arts); Curry School of Expression (Boston, MA, USA); St Margaret's College (Toronto, ON) (Marion Long)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GREEN Betty       x   b.1908 d.2000 Painting: Watercolor     Studied: Robert Norgate, Gerald Trottier, James Boyd (Toronto, ON) Member: CSPWC; OAA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has review
GREENE Barbara Louise x     x   b.1917   Painting     Studied: OCA (Jack Martin, Sydney Watson; Sweden (went on a scholarship) Member: CSPWC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Document in G file
GREENE Lorna G.   x   x                          
GREENE Marie Zoe   x   x   b.1911   Sculpture     Studied: New Bauhaus School (Chicago, IL, USA) (Alexander Archipenko, László (Laszlo) Moholy-Nagy) Member: FCA; NAC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has catalogue
GREENHAM Elvina K.   x x   Active c.1906     Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
GREENLEES H Nancy (see RHIND H Nancy)   x   x                          
GREENSTEIN Anne   x x   Active c.1914 b.1914 - Warsaw, Poland   Painting Polish. came to Canada in 1930 Montreal, QC              
GREENSTONE Marion   x x   Active c.1925 b.1925 - New York City, NY, USA   Painting   London, ON (1957); New York, NY, USA (2012) Studied: Art Students League (New York, NY, USA); Cummington School of Art (New York, NY, USA) Member: OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Won Jessie Dow Prize
GREENWOOD Charlotte   x   x                          
GREENWOOD Dorothy x x   x                          
GREENWOOD Mrs.   x   x Active c.1909     Sculpture                 There might be a Dorothy GREENWOOD at the MMFA
GREGG Erica Deichman   x   x   b.1913 d.2007                    
GREGOR Helen Frances   x x     b.1921 - Prague, Czech Republic d.1989 Fibres: Textiles, Weaving Czech London, England; Seoul, South Korea Studied: RCA (Henry Moore, Ernest William Tristram, Roland Emmett)            
GREGORY Mary (see PATTULO Mary)   x   x                          
GREGORY Victoria x   x         Architecture                  
GRENIER Mary   x   x                          
GRENIER May   x   x                          
GRESHAM, Mrs. George       x       Fibres: Leatherwork               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999) Coronation gift to Queen Mary
GRIER Stella Evelyn (Mrs. A. E. Gould)   x x     b.1898 - Toronto, ON d.1994 - Ottawa, ON Drawing: Pastels; Painting     Studied: Sir Wyly Grier (Father); Art Students League (New York, NY, USA); London, England Member: ARCA; HC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GRIERSON Joan   x x     b.1924 - Toronto, ON   Architecture                  
GRIFFIN Constance x x x   Active c.1920-29     Drawing: Pastel; Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
GRIFFIN Marion Mahoney x   x         Architecture                  
GRIFFITH Constance     x         Architecture                  
GRIFFON Florence       x       Ceramics: Pottery               Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art 2.5 (Summer 1945)  
GRIGGS Alice Jephson   x   x Active c.1923                        
GRIGNON V.J. or De V.L.   x   x                          
GRIGNON Mme J.J.       x Active c.1900     Painting                  
GRIMANIS Patricia (see GANGNON Patricia)   x   x Active c.1937                        
GROSS Helen (see OMANSKY Helen)   x   x                          
GROSVENOR Elsie Bell       x               Member: Cape Breton Home Industries          
GROVES Naomi Jackson (Mrs J.W. Groves)   x x     b.1910 - Montreal, QC d.2001 - Ottawa, ON Painting     Studied: AAM (Alberta Cleland); Harold Beament, Sarah Robertson (Montreal, QC); Copenhagen, Denmark (Emil Rannow, Viggo Brandt)     Uncle: AY Jackson CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has document in G file
GUARD Marie (Maria) Cecilia (Mrs. Ken Phillips)   x x     b.1908 - Toronto, ON d.2000 - Kingston, ON Painting     Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald, Emanunel Hahn, JW Beatty);  National Academy of Design (New York, NY, USA)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
GUAY Mimi x x   x Active c.1938         Exhibited: Eaton's Fine Art Galleries              
GUBBAY Aline (born Alice Hefer) x x x     b.1920 - Alexandria, Egypt d.2005 Drawing: Artist's Illustrated Book; Photography Born in Egypt move to England 1924 England; Winnipeg, MB; Montreal, QC              
GUERIN Carroll   x   x                          
GUERIN Jeannette (see GLADU Jeannette) x x   x                          
GUEST Marie Olivia Hewson   x x     b.1880 - Oxford, NS d.1966 - Winnipeg, MB Painting: Watercolour                  
GUILLAUME Janine Leroux   x   x Active c.1927                        
GUITÉ Suzanne   x x     b.1927 - New Richmond, QC d.1981 - Oaxaca, Mexico Sculpture French-Canadian, Québécoise Founded the Centre d'art de Perce (Gaspesie, QC)              
GUITÉ Thérèse   x x     b.1925 - Perce, Gaspesie, QC d.1981 Fibres: Textiles, Batik French-Canadian, Québécoise               File empty, ONLINE BIO TO TRANSLATE
GULNICK Marion   x   x Active c.1924                        
GUNN Emily Mary (Mrs. John Fried, Emily M. Fried) x x x   Active c.1906 b.(?) - London, ON   Painting: Watercolour                  
GUNN Patricia (Paddy) (see O'BRIAN Patricia)   x   x Active c.1929                        
GUNTERMAN Mattie (Ida Madeline Gunterman)   x x     b.1872 - La Crosse, WI, USA d.1945 - Beaton, BC Photography                  
GUTTMAN Freda   x   x Active c.1934                        
GWILLIM Elizabeth (see SIMCOE) x   x     b.1762 d.1850 Painting           Husband: John Graves Simcoe      
H                                  
HAANEL Florence Eugenie   x   x   b.1867 d.1950                    
HAGAR Florence L.       x Active c.1906     Ceramics; Painting: China Painting   Montreal, QC             coronation gift to Queen Mary
HAGAR Miss       x Active c.1906-10                        
HAGARTY Alice         Active c.1912                   MMFA    
HAGARTY Beatrice (see ROBERTSON)     x     b.1879 d.1962                    
HAGARTY Clara Sophia   x x     b.1871 - Toronto, ON d.1958 - Toronto, ON Painting; Drawing: Pastels   Assistant curator at the Grange in Toronto, ON (c.1924); Paris, France (1914) - Worked for the Red Cross (London, England) (c.1914) Studied: Toronto, ON (Sir E Wylie Grier, Mrs. Strickland Tully); New York, NY (WM Chase); Paris, France; Europe (MacMonnies, Castaluccio) Member: OSA   Grandfather: Sir John Hawkins Hagarty (Chief Justice of Ontario c.1920's)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) She was an avid golfer and Tennis player.
HAGARTY Mary S.   x   x                          
HAGEN Alice Mary (born Egan) x   x     b.1872 d.1972 Ceramics: Pottery; Painting Scottish or Irish descent? I think the info is in her file Halifax, NS; Mahone Bay, NS Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design (Halifax, NS) (Kay Foss Hill) Member: NSSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Experimented with glazes -- developed a technique called "Nova Scotian pebble" and a distinctive way of painting china with lustre. http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/cadeau/caser08e.shtml
HAGUE Mary Elizabeth (Libby)   x   x Active c.1950                        
HAHN Elizabeth Wood (see WOOD Elizabeth Wyn)   x   x                          
HAHN Sylvia Karen           b.1911 - Toronto, ON d.2001 - Whitby, ON Drawing: Artists' Illustrated Book; Painting: Mural Painting; Printmaking: Engraving; Sculpture: Jewellry, Metalworking Father was born in Germany   Studied: OCA (JW Beatty, Gustav Hahn, Emanuel Hahn, Frankling Carmichael, Yvonne McKague Housser) Member: HC; SCPE   Father: Gustav Hahn (artist)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HAINES Ursula     x         Architecture                  
HALE Elizabeth Frances (born Amherst) x         b.1774 - Walcot, England d.1826 - Quebec City, QC (Lower Canada) Painting British             Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HALES Gwendolyn     x     b.(?) d.1976 Painting   Wolfville, NS Studied: Boston, MA; New Brunswick            
HALEY Ruth Gaynor x   x     b.(?) d.1979 Painting   Edmonton, AB              
HALHEAD Harriet   x   x                          
HALL Jean Melissa           b.1896 d.1982 Architecture                  
HALL Jean (Jeanne) Patricia       x   b.1922   Painting     Studied: OCA (Toni Onley, Adrian Dingle, Aba Bayefsky, Rowley Murphy)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
HALL Joan x     x       Fibres: Textiles, Weaving   ON              
HALL Joice M   x   x Active c.1943                        
HALL Mary G.         Active c.1833-35 b.1835 d.(?) Painting: Topographical Paintings; Drawing; Printmaking: Lithography   Director of The Drawing Academy (Saint John, NB); ON; Maritimes           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HALL Sheila Jean     x     b.1896 - Toronto, ON d.1982 - Toronto, ON Architecture                  
HALLEN Mary E. x   x     b.1819 - England d.1907 - Orillia, ON Drawing; Painting: Watercolour British. Immigrated to Penetanguishene, ON in 1835                
HALLEY Miss B       x Active c.1907                        
HAMBLETON Marian     x         Architecture                  
HAMER Gladys   x   x                          
HAMERSLEY Isabella Maud Snow (Mrs. Alfred St. George Hamersley)     x     b. 1860 (*1853) - Winterborne Stickland, Dorset, England OR Wellington, NZ? d.1955 Painting: Watercolour   Wellington, NZ; Vancouver, BC (1888); Vancouver, BC       Husband: Alfred St George Hamersley (met in New Zealand). Children: Constance Hammersley (b.1880 - Timaru, New Zealand - d.1923), Colonel Hugh St George Hammersley     Donated land to the city of Vancouver
HAMERSLEY Constance     x   Active c.1900     Painting British parents England; Vancouver, BC       Grandmother: Isabella Maud Snow Hammersley. Father: Colonel Hugh St, George Hammersley.   * Constance could possibly be named after her aunt Constance. Mother lived in New Zealand.      
HAMILL Doris Vivian (Doris Pickup)       x   b.1924   Painting     Studied: Winnipeg School of Art Member: MSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
HAMILTON Ethel Rosa Heaven       x   b.1871 d.1936               MMFA    
HAMILTON Ida Gertrude   x x     b.1887 - Saint Mary's, ON d.1974 Painting; Fibres: Textiles, Weaving; Sculpture: Metalwork   Hamilton, ON Studied: MA, USA       see: MacCuaig, Stuart "Climbing the Cold White Peaks: A Survey of Artist's in an from Hamilton, 1910-1950" (Hamilton Artists, 1986)   used arts and crafts in the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers and widely involved in art education for all sorts of students, eg. recovering soldiers or the
visually impaired
HAMILTON Jane   x x         Painting; Photography Irish family ON       Father: Misionary in Upper Canada (b. ? - d.1886)     "...has distinguished herself in this city by skill in painting and photo work, to which art she has devoted her life."
HAMILTON Kathleen Anita   x   x Active c.1931                        
HAMILTON Lady Henrietta           b.1780 - Stanmore, Middlesex, England d.1857 - London, England Painting: Watercolour British. In Canada 1818-1824         Husband: Sir Charles Hamilton (Governor of Newfoundland)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demasduit          Her painting of a captured Beothuk woman, Demasduit, is considered the only representation of a Beothuk from life.
HAMILTON Marion     x   Active c.1950 b.(?) - ON   Painting   Saskatchewan artist "Qu'Appelle Valley" for "most of her life", lived in Vancouver, B.C., also              
HAMILTON Mary Riter x         b.1873 - Teeswater, ON d.1954 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Toronto, ON (Mary Hiester Reid, GA Reid, Sir Wyly Grier); Berlin, Germany (Franz Skarbina); Vittie Academy (Paris, France) (Jacques-Emile Blanche; Paul-Jean Gervais         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HAMILTON S. (Mrs.)   x   x     d.1887                    
HAMMERQUIST Gail x   x         Architecture                  
HAMMOND Katherine   x   x Active c.1935                   MMFA    
HAMMOND Rody (see COURTICE Rody)   x   x   b.1895 d.1973                    
HAMPSON Beatrice Mary Stephen Cantlie   x   x   b.1897 d.1976                    
HANCOCK Henrietta (see BRITTON Henrietta)           b.1874 d.1963                    
HANCOCK Yvonne     x         Architecture                  
HANES Ursula Ann x x   x Active c.1932                        
HANEY Pheobe Sproule (HARNEY)       x Active c.1910                   MMFA    
HANKIN Mollie E.   x   x                          
HANNAFORD Miss   x x   Active c.1896         Teacher of China painting             Advertised in Toronto Saturday Night
HANNIBAL Linnea   x   x                          
HANSON Gertrude Jean   x   x Active c.1933                        
HARBISON Cathy (see SENITT Cathy)   x   x Active c.1945                        
HARBUZ Ann Alexandra (born Napastuik)     x     b.1908 - Winnipeg, MB d.1989 - North Battleford, SK Painting                 There are several Napastuik in Canada
HARCOMBE Renee   x   x                          
HARDENBERGH Elizabeth Rutgers   x   x                          
HARDIE Betty     x         Architecture                  
HARDIE Isobel (Mrs. William Hardie)     x     b.(?) - North Perth, ON d.1943 Painting; Printmaking; Drawing   Ottawa, ON (1930)              
HARDING Edith Nelson (Edytha)   x   x Active c.1933                   MMFA    
HARDING Eliza Tremain     x         Painting; Drawing Grandparents from Massachusetts, USA. Father born in Nova Scotia Taught: Acadia Seminary (painting and drawing) (1879-1895). First art teacher at the Acadia Seminary for young women, which became the Acadia University Studied: NS; Boston, MA, USA; Berlin, Germany            
HARDING Elizabeth Lalor     x         Architecture                  
HARLAND Joan M.     x         Architecture                  
HARLANDER Susan Michel (Suzanne)   x   x Active c.1920                        
HARNEY Kate   x   x Active c.1910                        
HARNEY Phoebe Sproule   x   x                          
HAROLD Alice   x   x                          
HAROLD Elizabeth M.   x x   Active c.1925     Sculpture; Printmaking                 Her work was reviewed by the Montreal Gazette
HARPER J   x   x                          
HARRINGTON Anna Lois Dawson   x   x                          
HARRINGTON Rebecca Christina   x x     b.1869 - Toronto, ON d.1930 Painting     Studied: Art Students League (New York, NY, USA) (Frank Vincent DuMond); New York, NY, USA (Enid Carlson)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HARRINGTON Ruth M.   x   x                          
HARRINGTON Mme M       x                          
HARRIS Bess Larkin Housser (Bessie Marguerite)           b.1890 - Brandon, MB d.1969 - Vancouver, BC Painting   Exhibited: with Group of Seven Studied: Toronto, ON (FH Varley)     Husband (first): FB Housser. Husband (second): Lawren S Harris   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HARRIS Clara Isabella     x     b.1887 - Kingston, ON b.1974 - Toronto, ON Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Art Institute of Chicago           called an "Impressionist"
HARRIS Marguerite V. x x   x                          
HARRIS Martha Douglas           b.1854 - Victoria, BC d.1933 - Victoria, BC Painting; Fibres: Textiles; Sculpture: Wood carving     Studied: Lansdowne House (England);  Angela College (Victoria, BC); Victoria, BC (Georgina de L'Aubiniere); George Selkirk Gibson (Woodcarving) Meber: LACS; Lace Club of Victoria (founder)   Cousin: Edith Helmcken   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Also a writer, a "collector of aboriginal stories" and "basketry"
HARRIS Mrs. R. F.     x         Architecture                  
HARRIS Zaidee x x   x                          
HARRISON Barbara E. Jones     x         Architecture                  
HARRISON Edith Elizabeth   x   x   b.1907 d.2001 Painting; Sculpture: Stained Glass             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio. has document in the H File
HARRISON Miss                                  
HART Florence M       x Active c.1947-90                        
HART Sarah Stewart     x     b.1880 - Saint-John, NB d.1981 Painting   Taught: Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB)              
HARTLEY Muriel (see COTTINGHAM Muriel)   x   x   b.1889                      
HARTT Ella (Suiste)           b.1865 - USA d.1943 Photography   IL, USA; Thelma, AB              
HARVEY Adela (born Tremblay)       x   b.1895 d.1965                    
HARVEY Florence x     x Active c.1913                        
HARVEY Hester   x   x                          
HARVEY Margaret M.   x   x                          
HARVEY Mrs. George H. (see HARVEY Priscilla)   x   x                          
HARVEY Nellie   x   x                          
HARVEY Phyllis Nelson   x   x Active c.1906                        
HARVIE Mabel E.   x   x                          
HARWOOD Mrs. F. C.     x     b.(?) - MB d.1952 Painting   Winnipeg, MB; Saskatoon, SK; Victoria, BC             third Canadian woman to receive a fellowship in the Royal Society of Arts, London
HASARD Helen (alternately spelled Haszard or Hazard)     x     b.1890 - Charlottetown, PEI d.1970 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing descended from Loyalists who left Rhode Island for PEI in the early 1800s   Studied: Boston, MA, USA            
HASHEY Mrs Lawrence       x Active c.1941                        
HASKELL Louisa   x   x                          
HASPEL-SEGUIN Tutzi   x   x   b.1911 d.2009 Painting; Printmaking: Engraving             CHIN, MMFA    
HATFIELD Anna (see ADAMSON Ann)   x   x                          
HAWLEY Wilhelmina D.   x   x Active c.1900                        
HAWORTH Bobs (born Cogill ) (Zema Barbara Warbain; Mrs. Peter Haworth)           b.1900 - Queenstown, South Africa d.1988 - Toronto, ON Drawing: Book illustration; Painting: Mural painting, Watercolour; Ceramics: Pottery; Cloisonne   Toronto, ON; Taught: Ceramics Studied: Design at Royal College of Art (London, England) (Sir William Rothenstein) Member: CGP; ARCA; CSPWC; HC; OSA; RCA   Husband: Peter Haworth (painter, stained glass designer in Toronto)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HAWORTHORNE Marion Mclure   x   x   b.1897   Painting             CHIN, MMFA   document in H file
HAYES G Baly x x   x                          
HAYMAN Margaret       x Active c.1934                        
HAZELL Eileen Long   x x     b.1903 - Surrey, England d.1984 - Toronto, ON Painting; Ceramics: Pottery; Sculpture     Studied: Central Technical School (Toronto, ON) Member: CGP; CHG       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HAZEN Elizabeth Beckwith     x     b.1839 d.1935 Painting: Watercolour   Fredericton, NB              
HEACOCK Rebecca (Mrs. K.E. Heacock) x     x   b.1890   Painting     Studied: University of Alberta (HG Glyde and WJ Phillips) Member: ASA     CHIN, Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
HEAD Lady Anna Maria (born Yorke)     x     b.1808 d.1890 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing British         Husband: Sir Edmund Walker Head (8th Baronet, was Governor-General of the Province of Canada (1854–1861), married 1838). Children: One Son and two Daughters. Father: Reverend Philip Yorke Prebendary of Ely. Mother: Hon. Anna Maria Cocks. Grandfather: 1st Lord Somers.      
HEALEY Mary     x     b.1885 - England d.1923 - London, ON Painting                  
HEATER C.B.   x   x                          
HEAVEN Ethel R.   x   x   b.1871 d.1936                    
HEBERT Annette       x Active c.1927                        
HECHT Estelle   x   x   b.1900 d.1971 Painting; Printmaking: Etching             CHIN, Ellen Gallery MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
HECHT Ethel   x   x Active c.1928                       There is a Estelle Hecht on CHIN. variant 1900-1971
HEFFLON Ruth E.   x   x Active c.1928                        
HEINKLE Elsa       x       Glass               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
HELLER Mary Ida Clair   x   x   b.1909 d.1986 Sculpture     Studied: OCA (Emanuel Hahn, Thomas Bowie)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
HELM Katharine Jefferys     x         Architecture                  
HELMCKEN Edith Louisa (Dolly)           b.1862 - Victoria, BC d.1939 - Victoria, BC Painting: China painting, Watercolour; Fibres: Embroidery     Studied: St Anne's Convent (Victoria, BC); England Member: LACS   Cousin: Martha Douglas Harris (artist)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HELMER Hazel     x         Architecture                  
HEMBROFF-SCHLEICHER Edythe x   x x Active c.1984 b.1906 - Moose Jaw, SK d.1994 Painting; Printmaking born in SK. raised in Victoria, BC   Studied: Island Arts and Crafts Club, Victoria, BC (Margaret Kitto); California School of Arts and Crafts  (CA, USA); California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, CA, USA); Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris); Andre Lhote's Studio (Paris)   Friend of Emily Carr; Friend of Marian Allardt (travelled together to Paris) Husband: Frederick Brand (first husband, divorced 1949); Husband: Dr. Julius F. Schleicher (second husband) CHIN Johnson-Dean, Christina "The Life and Art of Edythe Hembroff- Schleicher, The Unheralded Artists of BC" (Salt Spring Island, BC: Mother Tongue Publishing, 2013) Exhibited at 'Modern Room' exhibition of 1932 (one of three women to participate - Emily Carr and Ina Uhthoff). Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher Scholarships are available for female undergraduates or graduate students at the University of Victoria (Vancouver Sun article Nov. 8 2013)
HEMMING Edith Clara Sophia           b.1849 - Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, England d.1931 - Dollar, Scotland Painting: Miniature, Watercolour British. Immigrated to Canada in 1852, Montreal Toronto, ON (where she had her own studio) (1893); QC; Dollar, Scotland       Father: Henry Hemming (auditor of the Grand Trunk Railway and then Chief Accountant for the Province of Quebec after Confederation, also worked on the construction of the Victoria Bridge over the St-Lawrence)  Mother: Clarissa Hemming   Lessard, Michel "Les Livernois, Photographes," (Quebec: Musee de Quebec, 1987):178-183. Her parents ,Henry and Clarissa were cousins of eachother- and were descendants of John Heminges;
 a good friend of William Shakespear, fellow actor, and the co-publisher of Shakespear's first folio). Henry and Clarissa were also friends with Sir John Tenniel, the first illustrator of "Alice in Wonderland"
HEMPSTEAD J. H.   x   x                          
HEMSTED Margaret J x x   x                          
HEMSTED Mrs.     x   Active c.1894     Painting   Toronto, ON              
HENAULT Odile     x         Architecture                  
HENDERSON Beatrice M.   x   x                          
HENDERSON Marie     x         Architecture                  
HENDERSON Ruth Miller       x                     CHIN (has R. Henderson)    
HENEKER Dorothy       x Active c.1926                        
HENEKER Evelyn Elizabeth   x x   Active c.1920's     Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
HENEY Irene S.   x   x Active c.1914                        
HENSHAW Ruth Beatrice   x x     b.1895 d.(?) Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
HENRY Veral L.   x   x Active c.1924                   MMFA    
HERBERT Nancy       x   b.1921 - England d.1988 Sculpture British           CHIN, MMFA, Edmonton Art Gallery, Ellen Gallery    
HERBERT Sally   x   x                          
HEREFORD Miss S. (Sally)   x   x Active c.1933                        
HERMAN Joy   x   x Active c.1943                        
HERMES Gertrude Anna Bertha   x   x Active c.1945 b.1901(?)                      
HERRY Célestine de Naeyer (Baronesse Célestine Fanny E. de Naeyer Herry)     x     b.1879 - Brussels, Belgium d.1952 - Coldstream, BC Painting Belgian. Immigrated to Canada in 1912                
HERTZBERG Phyllis Armour (see ARMOUR Phyllis)   x   x   b.1885 d.1975 Painting; Drawing             CHIN   Document in the H file
HERVIEU Louise       x Active c.1936                        
HESSON Frances G.   x   x                          
HEUSTIS Florence       x Active c.1924                        
HEWARD Barbara Hamilton   x   x Active c.1928                        
HEWARD Dorothy Burton   x   x   b.1888 d.1912                    
HEWARD Miss   x   x                          
HEWARD Prudence (Efa Prudence Heward)           b.1896 - Montreal, QC d.1947 Painting   Paris, France; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Montreal, QC Studied: AAM (Montreal, QC) (William Brymner, Randolph Hewton, Maurice Cullen); Academie Colarossi (Paris, France); Scandinavian Academy (Paris, France) Member: BHG; CGP       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HEWITSON, Mrs. A       x Active c.1930     Sculpture: Paper (?)   Toronto, ON           SEE: Waddington's Auction Catalogue (November 9-11, 1981)  
HEWITT Minnie C x     x Active c.1939                        
HEWITT Viola F.   x   x Active c.1923                        
HEWLETT Annie Elizabeth May     x     b.1887 - Sutton-on-Hull, Yorkshire, England   Painting: Watercolour British, Immigrated to Canada in 1911 Carlyle, SK (1958)              
HEWSON Marie Olivia(see GUEST)   x x     b.1880 d.1965                    
HEWTON Benedicta Isabel Robertson   x   x   b.1894 d.(?)                    
HEYWOOD Irene Hemsworth       x Active c.1938                        
HIBBERT Margaret   x   x Active c.1941                        
HICKIN Miss   x   x Active c.1924                        
HICKLIN Barbara Roe (Barbara Rod, Barbara Jane Hicklin; Mrs. H. Hicklin)           b.1918 - Toronto, ON d.2010 Painting; Design: Graphic design   New York, NY (worked as commercial artist); Edmonton, AB (1964) Studied: OCA; Central Technical School (Toronto, ON) (Peter Haworth, Carl Schaefer); Phoenix School of Design (New York, NY, USA) Member: ASA; EAC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HIDGINS Kay     x         Architecture                  
HIESTER Mary (see REID Mary) x         b.1854 d.1921                    
HIGGINS Dolly Helmcken   x   x                          
HIGHMOOR Gwen Hall x x   x                          
HILL Agnes Lawrence (Mrs. Albert J. Hill)     x   Active c.1886     Painting: Watercolour   Port Moody, BC              
HILL Hulda   x x   Active c.1947     Painting   Kingston, ON              
HILL Kate Foss   x   x   b.1846 d.1936 Painting: Oil     Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design (Halifax, NS)         "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" (July 2012-January 2013) exhibition catalogue available at CWAHI has info in F file at CWAHI
HILL (Esther)Marjorie           b.1895 - Guelph, ON d.1985 - Victoria, BC Architecture                  
HILL Polly     x         Architecture                  
HILL Sybil x x   x                          
HILLS Evangeline Mary Bell-Smith (Eva)   x   x   b.1875                      
HILLYARD Caroline L. Learoyd (Carrie)   x x     b.1866 - St. Marys, ON d.1952 - Oakville, ON Painting father from Ireland, mother from Quebec                
HIME Ainslie (Mrs.)   x   x                          
HINCHCLIFFE E. Irene   x   x   b.1911 d.2006                    
HINDS Mrs.   x   x                          
HINGSTON Lillian Isabel (born Peterson)           b.1881 - Goderich, ON d.1967 - Montreal, QC Drawing; Painting: Oil     Studied: AAM (William Brymner)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HIRBERT Margaret       x Active c.1941                        
HOAR Miss x x   x Active c.1896                        
HOBBS Isabel Mary (born Oldfield)     x     b.1885 - Ashill, Norfolk, England d.1974 - Victoria, BC Painting British. Moved to Canada with her brother (1918)       Friends with Emily Carr Mother: was a painter. Father: was a painter      
HODGINS Aimee Gertrude Burgess (Mrs A.G.)   x   x Active c.1935 b.1866?               Husband: *possibly AG Hodgins (MMFA has file)      
HODGSON W.C.   x   x                          
HOFFMAN Lisa   x   x Active c.1933                        
HOFMANN Greta   x   x                          
HOGENHAMP Claire Florence   x   x Active c.1940                        
HOGG Grace Mary Isobel Mackenzie   x   x   b.1900 d.1989 Painting; Drawing             CHIN, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
HOLBROOK Elizabeth Mary Bradford           b.1913 - Hamilton, ON d.2009 - Hamilton, ON Sculpture     Studied: Hamilton Technical Institute (ON) (Hortense Gordon, John Sloan Gordon); OCA (Emanuel Hahn); RCA (London, England) Member: ALC; ARCA; OSA; RCA; SSC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HOLDEN Sarah Baldwin (Miss Holden on file)   x x   Active c.1895     Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
HOLLAND Arlene Ruel Scott x   x         Architecture                  
HOLLAND Ethelwyn   x   x Active c.1877                        
HOLLAND Lucy M.   x   x                          
HOLLAND Miriam Ramsey   x x     b.1904 - Montreal, QC d.1953 - Montreal, QC Painting                  
HOLLAND Norman   x   x                          
HOLLAND Sylvia Grace     x         Architecture                  
HOLLOWAY Elsie (Elizabeth Mary Holloway)           b.1882 - Saint John, NL d.1971 - Saint John, NL Photography                  
HOLMES Betty Marion Ruth       x   b.1914 d.1988 Painting; Drawing; Sculpture; Printmaking: Engraving     Studied:Winnipeg School of Art (LeMoine Fitzgerald); University of Manitoba (Richard Bowman, Robert Nelson) Member: MSA     CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
HOLMES Doris Colquhoun x         b.1892 - Ilkley, Yorkshire, England d.1958 - Victoria, BC Design: Interior design British Victoria, BC             An interior decorator to some of Victoria's most prominent citizens (CWAHI db)
HOLMSTEAD Marie H. (Holmested; Holmsted)     x     b.1857 - Toronto, ON d.1911 - Moose Jaw, SK Painting: Watercolour                  
HOLT Miss E.R x x   x     d.1971                    
HOME Mary W.   x   x                          
HOOD Alice       x   b.1914 d.2000 Photography             CHIN    
HOODEM Candace     x         Architecture                  
HOOK Anne Smith       x   b.1900 - Cavan, Ireland d.1978 Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking; Fibres: Leatherwork Irish. Immigrated to Canada in 1922 with her parents   Studied: Toronto Central Technical School (Les Trevor, Caven Atkins, Robert Ross); OCA (Carl Schaefer)       CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has dcument in H file
HOOKER Marion Hope (born Nelson; Mrs. Frank W. Hooker)   x x     b.1866 - Richmond, Virginia, USA d.1946 - St. Catharines, ON Painting Immigrated to Canada from the US in 1888   Studied: St Catherines Collegiate Institute (CB Milner); Buffalo, NY, USA (George B Bridgman, Lucius Hitchcock)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HOOLE Kate Adeline Smith (see SMITH Kate)   x x     b.1878 - Rotherham, England d.1921 - Vancouver, BC Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1912                
HOOVER Dorothy Haines (Mrs. G. L. J. Hoover)           b.1904 - Toronto, ON d.1995 Painting   St Catharines, ON; Toronto, ON Studied: Frederick S Haines (father) Member: HC; OSA   Father: Frederick S. Haines (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HOPKINS Elisabeth Margaret           b.1894 - Gilkicker, England d.1991 - Saltspring Island, BC Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1952.             Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Began her career at 81. Subject of a National Film Board Documentary. Known for naive style.
HOPKINS Frances Anne (born Beechey (Beechy)) x         b.1838 d.1919 Painting British Travelled to Canada from England for Canoe Trips Studied: Admiral Beechey (Father); Sir William Beechey (Grandfather) Member: RA, RBA   Husband: Secretary to the supervisor of the Hudson's Bay Company   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Some files currently on loan to Dr. Huneault
HOPPER Enid x x   x                          
HOPPER Henrietta M. x x   x                          
HORNE Jean Mildred Harris   x   x   b.1917 (have conflicting birthdate 1900) d.2007 (have conflicting death date 1978) Sculpture; Painting     Studied: OCA (Emanuel Hahn) Member: ARCA; SSC   Husband: Clive Horne CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio. has document in H file
HORNE Nesta Bowen     x     b.1896 - Barbados d.1987 - Victoria, BC Painting     Studied: New York City, NY, USA; Europe            
HOSIE  Audrey   x   x                          
HOSKEN Fran P.     x         Architecture                  
HOSKINSON Catherine Ann   x   x Active c.1949                        
HOUGHTON Margaret (Mme Jules Brunn)   x x     b.1865 - Montreal, QC d.(?) Painting     Studied: Paris, France (William-Adolphe Bouguereau)            
HOUGHTON May   x   x                          
HOUSSER (Muriel) Yvonne McKague           b.1897 - Toronto, ON d.1996 - Toronto, ON Drawing; Painting; Printmaking     Studied: OCA; Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France); Academie Colarossi (Paris, France); Paris, France (Lucien Simon, Maurice Denice) Member: CGP; ARCA; FCA; HC; OSA; RCA   Husband: F.B. Housser (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HOW Beatrice     x     b.1867 - Bideford, Devon, England d.1932 - Hoddeson, Hertfordshire, England Painting: Paintings of Children ("intimate studies of women with babies" source: Tate Gallery)   England; France; French-Canada              
HOWARD Clara Frances x     x       Painting: Watercolour               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" (July 2012-January 2013) exhibition catalogue available at CWAHI  
HOWARD Dorothy B.   x   x                          
HOWARD Helen Barbara   x   x Active c.1926                        
HOWARD Jemima       x   b.1802 d.1877                    
HOWDEN Margaret   x   x                          
HOWELL Harriet R,   x   x                          
HOWELL J. Constance   x   x Active c.1895                   MMFA    
HOWSON Juliet H.   x   x                          
HOYT Edith   x   x   b.1894 d.(?)                    
HRUBY Malenka Eleanora   x   x Active c.1930                        
HUANG Judith   x   x                          
HUCHES Mrs. James       x Active c.1880     Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making,   (?) Blockhouse, NS           SEE: Exhibition Catalogue "Decorated Nova Scotia Furnishings" (Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1978)  
HUDDELL Ida M.   x x   Active c.1915-33     Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
HUDON-BEAULAC Simone (Simone Marie Yvette Hudon)   x       b.1905 - Quebec City, QC d.1984 - Montreal, QC Painting:Watercolour; Printmaking: Engraving; Drawing: Artists' Illustrated Books French-Canadian, Québécoise   Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Quebec, QC) (H. Ivan Neilson, Lucien Martial) Member: CSGA; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HUDSON Mrs (Herbert)   x   x                          
HUESTIS Florence x x   x                          
HUFFMAN Isobel Mary Knox   x x     b.1885 - Toronto, ON d.(?) Painting: Miniature; Drawing                  
HUFFMAN Mrs Paul Percival   x   x                          
HUGH-STANTON Gertrude (see HERMES Gertrude)   x   x Active c.1945 b.1901                      
HUGHES Mary   x x   Active c.1925     Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
HUI Molly Lai Mui   x   x Active c.1916                        
HULL J.M.   x   x                          
HULL Lina A.   x   x                          
HULL Mae     x     b.(?) - Strathroy, ON d.1971 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: Detroit, MI, USA            
HUMPHREYS Barbara Alice     x         Architecture           Siste in Law: Wilma Kay Grant (wife of Barbara Humphreys brother).      
HUMPHRYS Wilma Kay Grant     x         Architecture           Sister in Law: Barbara Alice Humphreys      
HUNSICKER   x   x                          
HUNT Dora (see DE PEDERY)   x x     b.1913 d.2008 Sculpture     Studied: Royal School of Applied Art (Budapest, Hungary) Member: ALC; ARCA; FCA; OSA; RCA; SSC   Husband: Albert Hunt   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HUNT Jessie Doris       x   b.1909   Painting     Studied: Calgary, AB (Euphemia McNaugh); Winnipeg School of Art (Joe Plaskett); Instituto Allende (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) Member: CSPWC; MSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
HUNT Jean (Joan?) Emily Gladys       x   b.1893   Painting     Studied: NSCAD (Ruth Wainwright) Member: MAA; NSSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
HUNTER I.A.W.   x   x                          
HUNTER Sarah (Jean?)   x   x Active c.1927                        
HUNTER Wilhemina Blewett Elliott   x   x   b.1893 d.(?)                    
HURD Adelaide (see LANGFORD)     x                            
HUSBAND Gladys Dalla   x       b.1899 - Winnipeg, MB d.1945 Drawing; Printmaking; Painting             CHIN, Artexte Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
HUTCHISON Grace see (FULGER Grace)   x   x                          
HUTCHISON Lillie J. x x   x                          
HUTTON Gwendolyn (see LAMONT Gwendolyn)   x   x   b.1909 d.1978                    
HUYCK Laura G. Talmadge   x   x                          
HYDE Lora   x   x                          
HYLLIE Miss   x   x Active c.1896                        
HYMAS Jane Allison   x x   Active c.1932     Architecture                  
I                                  
IDE Katherine T   x   x                          
IMLACH Agnes C.   x   x                          
IMRIE Mary           b.1918 - Toronto, ON d.1988 - Edmonton, AB Architecture   Edmonton, AB (1921)              
INGALLS Helen A   x   x Active c.1915     Painting                  
INGALLS Lorna Wentworth x x   x                          
INGLE Bertha May (Maylaw)   x x     b.1878 - Puslinch, ON d.1962 - Guelph, ON Painting                  
INGLIS Lily           b.1926 - Milan, Italy d.2010 Architecture Italian. Lived in England before coming to Canada Immigrated to Canada  in 1959 London, England; Travelled extensively through Northern Europe Studied: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England; Edinburgh, Scotland            
INNES Alice Amelia     x     b.1890 - West Zorra, ON d.1970 Painting     Studied: OCA (JW Beatty)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
INWOOD Elizabeth x x   x Active c.1948     Printmaking; Drawing                  
IRVINE Melisande       x Active c.1947                   NGC    
IRVING Daphne Butler   x   x Active c.1931                        
IRVING Jane Urquhart     x     b.1863 d.1955 Painting; Photography             Archives of British Columbia    
IRVING Vera Isabel Matthews   x   x Active c.1913                   NGC    
IRWIN Eleanor M   x   x                          
ISHULUTAQ Elisapee           b.1925                      
ITTULUKATNAK Martha aka Itoolookutna, Ittuluka’naaq   x       b.1912 - Kazen River, NU d.1981 - Baker Lake, NU Drawing; Printmaking Inuit Baker Lake, NU (1961)              
ITYI Naomi x   x x   b.1928 - Baker Lake, NU d.2004 Printmaking             CHIN, Art Bank    
IVAN Edit Zilahi x     x   b.1920 d.1962 Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Academy of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary) Member: CSGA; CSPWC; HFA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has review
IVENS Dorothy   x   x                          
IVES Antoinette   x   x                          
IZARD Eleanor   x   x                          
J                                  
JACK Marion Elizabeth   x x     b.1866 - Saint John, NB d.1954 - Sofia, Bulgaria Painting Converted to the Baha'i faith in the early 20th century Alaska, USA (Missionary Work); Sofia, Bulgaria (1930)              
JACK Patte (Pattie)   x   x Active c.1900                        
JACKMAN Nora M.     x         Architecture                  
JACKSON Cecilia   x   x Active c.1895     Ceramics                  
JACKSON Erna Nook   x   x Active c.1886                        
JACKSON Naomi Adair   x   x                          
JACKSON Naomi Catherine (see GROVES Naomi Jackson)           b.1910 d.2001                    
JACKSON Mlle       x Active c.1883     Painting                  
JACKSON Sarah Jeanette Sherman x x x   Active c.1924     Drawing: Ink; Painting: Watercolour; Sculpture   Montreal, QC     Friends with Marian Scott        
JACOBS Jane     x         Architecture                  
JACOBSON Sybil (born Atkinson)     x     b.1881 - London, England d.1953 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Watercolour British. Came to Canada in 1912 Moose Jaw, SK (1912); Lac Vert Nord, QC; Winnipeg, MB; Vancouver, BC              
JAENICKE Beulah Irene   x   x Active c.1918                        
JAMES Ann       x   b.1925   Sculpture; Painting; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: Brighton School of Art (England); University of Saskatchewan (Arthur McKay, Kenneth Lochhead, Ric Gomez) Member: ACC; TPG     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
JAMES Feda J.     x         Architecture                  
JAMESON Anna Brownell (Anna Murphy)           b.1794 - Dublin, Ireland d.1860 - Ealing, England Drawing: Book Illustration; Painting: Watercolour Irish Upper Canada (Great Lakes Region in Canada) with husband from 1836           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) involved in writing, author and critic. (recorded travels with illustrated book)
JAMESON Martha Greening   x   x Active c.1918                        
JANES Phyllis Hipwell x         b.1905 - Alliston, ON d.1990 Painting; Drawing: Pastels; Printmaking     Studied: OCA Member: CSGA; OS   Husband: Henry F. Janes   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
JANIK Teresa     x         Architecture                  
JANITSCH Marguerite D x x   x                          
JAQUES Betty   x   x                          
JARVIS Lucy Mary Hope           b.1896 - Toronto, ON d.1985 - Pembroke Dyke, NS Painting: Watercolour   University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB) (Founded the Observatory Art Center) Studied: Havergal Ladies College (Toronto, ON); School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, USA); Andre Lhote (Paris, France); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France)   co-founded the University of New Brunswick Observatory Art Center with Pegi Nicol MacLeod in 1942     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
JAWORSKA Tamara Hans     x     b.1918  d.2015 Textiles, Tapestry                  
JEAN Mireille x   x         Architecture                  
JEFFERIES Gloria   x   x Active c.1923                        
JEFFERY Alicia Anne (Elliott?)     x     b.1808 - NS   Painting; Drawing                  
JEFFERYS JEan Adams   x   x   b.1897 d.(?)                    
JEFFREYS Barbara Alice West   x   x Active c.1916                        
JELLETT Mrs.   x   x                          
JEMMETT Maud Martineau (Mary Ella Maud Martineau Jemmett)   x x     b.1893 - Milan, Italy d.1986 Painting British England (1898); Canada (1917)              
JENTYS Renata     x         Architecture                  
JEPHSON Lady Harriet (born Henrietta Julia Campbell, called Harriet, nicknamed Haddie)     x     b.1854 - England d.1930 - England Painting British. born and died in England, travels to Canada unknown             Jephson, Lady Henrietta "A Candian Scraobook 1897". Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell "Notes of a Nomad" (1918)  
JHU Winfred     x         Architecture                  
JOHANNSEN Alice     x         Architecture                  
JOHANSSON Linnea   x   x                          
JOHNS O.H. (Woman?)       x       Glass?                  
JOHNSON Agnes B. (see SINCLAIR)     x                            
JOHNSON Dorothy   x   x                          
JOHNSON Elaine   x   x                          
JOHNSON Esther     x         Architecture                  
JOHNSON Helen       x Active c.1894     Painting                  
JOHNSON Helen G.   x   x                          
JOHNSON J. M. "Jackie"     x         Architecture                  
JOHNSON Jeanne (see PAYNE-JOHNSON Jeanne)   x   x   b.1887 d.1958                    
JOHNSON Kathleen Beatrice   x   x   b.1917 d.1998 Painting     Studied: OCA (Yvonne McKague Housser, Grace Coombs) Member: OIP; OSA; WGA     CHIN, NGC, AGO Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). document in J file
JOHNSON Lucy G   x   x                          
JOHNSON Miss   x   x                          
JOHNSON Norah     x         Architecture                  
JOHSON Pauline   x   x Active c.1936     Sculpture                  
JOHNSON Pauline (Emily Pauline Johnson, Takehionwake)           b.1861 - Six Nations Reserve, ON d.1913 - Vancouver, BC Performance First Nations -- Mohawk father and English mother ON; BC; England         MMFA    
JOHNSTON Annie May (born Lewis)     x     b.1888 - ON   Fibres:Textiles (quilts); Painting                  
JOHNSTON Dorothy Paine (born Dunn) x         b.1925   Ceramics: Pottery; Sculpture: Stained Glass     Studied: University of Manitoba (Ivan Eyre, Ron Burke, Cecil Richards, Kenneth Butler)       CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
JOHNSTON Frances-Anne (Mrs. Franklin Arbuckle, Fran Johnston)   x x     b.1910 d.1987 Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC Studied: OCA (Franz Johnston, JEH MacDonald, Robert Holmes, Fred S Haines, Emanuel Hahn) Member: ARCA; OSA; RCA   Father: Franz Johnston (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
JOHNSTON Freda   x   x                          
JOHNSTON Lucy   x   x                          
JOHNSTON Mary   x   x                          
JOHNSTON Miss   x   x                          
JOHNSTON Vera J.     x     b.(?) - Montreal, QC d.1986 Painting: Watercolour   Mississauga, ON              
JOHNSTONE May   x   x                          
JOHNSTONE Nora Wilson     x         Architecture                  
JONES Eliza Field     x     b.1804 - Lambeth, London, England d.1890 - ON Painting: Landscape; Drawing Immigrated to North America (Upper Canada) c.1833 Liverpool, England; Upper Canada (1833)       Husband: Kahkewaquonaby aka Peter Jones (Ojibwa Nation? Mississauga?)  (married in New York City, NY, 1833).     Kahkaewaquonaby's portrait was done in London by the miniaturist Matilda Jones. taught drawing classes at the end of her life
JONES Elizabeth (Elizabeth Jones Brantford?)       x                          
JONES Eva L.     x         Architecture                  
JONES Fran (Frances Martha Rosenware Jones)           b.1916 - Smiths Falls, ON d.2002 - Ottawa, ON Printmaking; Painting     Studied: OCA (John Alfsen, Franklin Carmichael, Fred S Haines); Gustav Hahn, Emanuel Hahn, Charles Comfort, George Pepper, Yvonne McKague Housser Member: FCA; CSGA; OAA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
JONES Frances M.   x   x   b.1855 d.1940                    
JONES Helen x x   x Active c.1913                       Not the same Helen Jones as the Helen Jones listed on Artist in Canada(CHIN)
JONES Helen (Mrs H.M. Jones)       x   b.1909   Painting; Drawing             CHIN, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
JONES Jacobine           b.1897 d.1976                    
JONES Mlle       x Active c.1883     Painting                  
JONES Mrs. F.P. x x   x                          
JONES Phyllis Jacobine           b.1897 - London, England d.1976 - Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON Sculpture; Painting:  Mural painting British. immigrated to Canada in 1932   Studied: Polytechnic School of Art (London, England) (Harold Brownsword); Italy; Denmark; France Member: ARCA; RCA; SSC          
JOPLIN F.M.   x   x                          
JOPLING x x   x                          
JORDON Marion Curtis   x   x                          
JORON M.F.   x   x                          
JOSEPH Mother     x         Architecture                  
JOST Ottilie Palm           b.1878 - Hamilton, ON d.1961 - Munich, Germany Painting: Mural Painting German parents Germany (1911)  - would send her work from Germany to be exhibited at Canadian exhibitions Studied: Hamilton School of Art (John S. Gordon); Olde Lyme, CT (Summer Studies) Member: Hamilton Art Students League (HASL) (Founding Member)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
JOUBERT Louise     x         Architecture                  
JOUDRY B Kennatha x x   x                          
JOYCE-GAGNON Thérèse       x                          
JOYNES Jennifer R.     x         Architecture                  
JUDAH Doris Minette (born Trotter)   x x     b.1887 - Montreal, QC d.1965 Sculpture     Studied: Monument National (Montreal, QC) (Edmond Dyonnet, Alfred Laliberte); Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Montreal, QC) Member: RAA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
JUDAH Mrs. Lionel C   x   x                          
JUDGE Alice Elizabeth Phillips   x   x Active c.1930                        
JULIEN Rachel   x   x Active c.1930                        
JUNOR Miss       x Active c.1896     Ceramics   Taught: Ceramics (location unknown)              
K                                  
KACERE Joan Brierly   x   x                          
KAHANE Anne (Mrs. R. Langstadt)         Active c.1924 b.(?) - Vienna, Austria   Drawing; Printmaking; Sculpture Austrian Canada (1925); Montreal, QC (1926); Taught: Concordia University (1965-1980) Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal, QC); Cooper Union (New York, NY, USA)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KAISER Rita Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1923                        
KALDOR Ingrid x x   x Active c.1919                   U of C Library, MMFA, NGC    
KALLEO, Josephina     x     b.1920 d.1993 Drawing, Fibres                  
KALLMEYER Minnie           b.1882 - Detroit, MI, USA d.1947 - Toronto, ON Painting: Oil   Toronto, ON studied under F. McGillivray Knowles,Central Ontario School of Art, (Toronto). Studied under J.W. Beatty (Toronto). Académie Colarossi (Paris) Member: OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KALVAK Helen (Kalvakadluk; Kalvakadlak; Kravlak)           b.1901 - Tahiryuak Lake, Victoria Island, NWT d.1984 - Holman, NWT Drawing; Printmaking Inuit                
KANAKYOK Rosa Arnarudluk x   x     b.1914 d.1984 Sculpture Inuit Repulse Bay, NU              
KANAYUK Yvonne Arnakyuinak x         b.1920 - Baker Lake, NU d.1998 - Baker Lake, NU Sculpture Inuit, born in Nunavut                
KANE Harriet (born Clenche)           b.1823 (*Prakash has c.1830) - Coburg, ON d.1892 Painting: Watercolour;  Drawing           Husband: Paul Kane (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KARCH Gertrude x x   x Active c.1924           Prize winning student Member: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures          
KARSCH-BIEDERMANN Elizabeth (Elizabeth Biederman) x     x   b.1887 d.2003 Photography             CHIN, MMFA    
KATZ Sarina Altman           b.1934 d.2009 Architecture                  
KAUFMAN Carolyn Reesor (Mrs. Stanley Victor Kaufman)     x     b.1883 - Markham, ON d.1968 - Edmonton, AB Painting; Drawing                  
KAULBACH Mary Louise (Mrs. Ryland) x     x   b.1865 d.1925 Painting: Oil               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" Exhibition Catalogue available at CWAHI.  
KEARNS Celia Bruce   x   x                          
KEATING Hariette   x   x   b.1898 d.(?)               UBC, MMFA    
KEDDY Karen     x         Architecture                  
KEEFER Emaime   x   x       Painting                  
KEENE Minna           b.1861 - Arolsen, Germany d.1943 - Oakville, ON Photography German. Born in Germany Germany; Great-Britain; Cape Town, South Africa; Oakville, ON (1922); Hired by Canadian Pacific Railroad to photograph the Rocky Mountains (CWAHI)       Children: Violet Keene      
KEENE Violet (Mrs. Perinchief; Violet Keene for professional use)           b.1893 - Bath, England d.1987 - Oakville, ON Photography; Painting: Watercolour British         Mother: Minna Keene*?      
KEFER Miss. x x   x                          
KEILLOR Nellie x x   x   b.1917 d.1967                    
KELLET Edith     x     b.1877 - Yorkshire, England d.1932 - Brantford, ON Painting: Miniature; Sculpture British. moved to USA 1881; Canda 1919 USA (1881); Canada (1919)              
KELLEY Anna Lucy       x   b.1849 d.1920 Painting: China Painting               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" Exhibition Catalogue available at CWAHI.  
KELLY Ada   x   x   b.1879 d.1942 Painting             MAC, UBC, Harper's  
KELLY Elizabeth May   x x     b.1888 - Carleton, ON d.(?)       Studied: OCAD            
KELLY Hannah Rusk   x x     b.1860 - Eldersie, ON d.1935 - Hamilton, ON Painting: Miniature   Philadelphia, PA, USA (until 1915-Death of her husband); Hamilton, ON Studied: Toronto, ON            
KELSEY Dora (see WOODHEAD Dora)   x   x c.1916                        
KEMP Florence (see PROCTOR Florence)   x   x   b.1886 d.(?)                    
KEMP Mrs. H. R.     x         Architecture                  
KEMP V. Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1936                   MMFA    
KENNEDY Elvinas (see CRABTREE)     x                            
KENNEDY Kathleen Cooley       x   b.1908   Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Royal College of Art (London, England) Member: CSPWC; RDSL     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
KENNEDY Mary Louise     x     b.1861 - St. Andrews, MB d.1946 Painting; Writing First Nations (Mixed Cree and English heritage)                
KENNEDY Sybil           b.1899 - Quebec City, QC d.1986 - Montreal, QC Sculpture   QC Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Art Students League, New York, NY (John Sloan) Member: ARCA; CAS; NAWA; RCA; SSC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KENNEY Gail   x   x                          
KENNY Gwenn x x   x                          
KENNY Mrs Jeremiah       x           Halifax, NS (Founder of Victoria School of Art and Design)     Founded the Victoria School of Art (Halifax) with: Anna Leonowens, Ella Almon Ritchie        
KENOJUAK Ashevak   x   x Active c.1927                        
KENTNER Mary Anna     x         Architecture                  
KERR Estelle Muriel           b.1879 - Toronto, ON d.1971 Painting; Drawing: Illustrated Children's books and children were often her subjects     Studied: Toronto, ON (Mary Ella Dignam, Laura Muntz Lyall); Art Students League (New York); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris) Member: HC; OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) She wrote and illustrated Children's books.
KERR Gertrude   x   x                          
KERR Mary Spice x   x     b.1905 - Yorkton, SK d.1982 - Calgary, AB Painting                  
KERR Miss   x   x                          
KERR Mrs. W. H.     x     b.1874 - ON d.1949 - Lumsden, SK Painting Born in Ontario               Male W. H. Kerr is on Artists in Canada, has the same birth and death dates -- husband or pseudonym? there is another Mrs. W. H. Kerr who was photographed by W. Notman in 1870 (4 years before this Kerr was born)
KERWIN Claire           b.1919 - Belgium d.2005 Painting; Printmaking Belgian Canada (1947); Toronto, ON (1978)              
KETTNER Patricia     x         Architecture                  
KEW Anne Katherine (born Pohorecki) x         b.1910 - Winnipeg, MB d.2004 Photography   Montreal, QC              
KEYSER Nicole De   x   x Active c.1936                        
KIEBLER Ruth x x   x             Studied: Winnipeg School of Art            
KILBOURNE Rosemary Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1931                        
KILLALY Alicia           b.1836 - London, ON d.1908 - Grantham, Lincolnshire, England Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Cornelius Krieghoff         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KILLAM Edith Humphrey     x     b.1882 - Hampton, NB d.1962 Painting: Watercolour?   Westmount, QC (1924)       Some of her family still resides in New Brunswick      
KILLAM Mabel (see DAY Mabel) x x   x   b.1884 d.1963                    
KILLINS Ada Gladys           b.1901 - Caistor Township, County of Lincoln, ON d.1963 - Dunchurch, ON Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Franz Johnston; Carl Schaefer Member: CSPWC; NDAA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KILTGAARD-MAY Christiane Brix   x   x   b.1876 - Puerto Cortés, West Indies d.1954               MMFA    
KIMBER Hetty Donne x x x   Active c.1880-1920 b.1854 - Great Tew, Oxfordshire, England d.1946 - NB Painting: Watercolour immigrated to Canada in 1884                
KING Addison H.   x   x                          
KING Ethel M.   x x     b.1878 - Prescott, ON d.(?) Painting                  
KING Verna M.     x         Architecture                  
KING-FARLOW Hazel   x   x Active c.1939                       "décrit avec une inégalité puérile un 'Saint-Tropez' où il y a des nuages roses qui s'étirent et des arbres pommelés comme des chous."
KINGHORN Helen     x   Active c.1942-62 b.(?) - Lindsay, ON d.(?) - Fredericton, NB Painting; Design: Commercial, Millinery (Hat Making)                 Taught art privately,  "Maritime artist"
KINGSFORD Winifred Ethel Margaret           b.1880 (*1875 ) -Toronto, ON d.1947 - Toronto, ON Sculpture; Painting     Studied: Central Technical School (J Linsey Banks) (Toronto, ON); Central Ontario School of Art (William Cruikshank, GA Reid) (Toronto, ON); Antoine Bourdelle (Paris, France) Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (1904 exhibition)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KINGWATSIAK Anna   x x     b.1911 - NU d.1971 Drawing; Printmaking Inuit Cape Dorset, NU       Siblings: Keeleemeeoomee Samualie (artist b.1919-d.1983), Tye Adla (artist b.1936-d.1990).  Children: Iyola Kingwatsiak, Mikigak Kingwatsiak      
KINNEY Alice R x x   x Active c.1952                        
KINSMAN Kay (Katherine Bell Kinsman) x         b.1909 - Los Angeles, California, USA d.1998 - Sherbrooke, QC Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Pen and Ink   Cuba; Jamaica; France (1930); Switzerland; Montreal, QC (1939); England; Lennoxville, QC Studied: Parsons School of Design (New York); Amedee Ozenfant (Paris); Anne Savage (Montreal, QC)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KINTON E Jerrine Wells   x   x   b.1892 d.(?)                    
KIPLING Barbara Ann x x   x Active c.1934                        
KIPPAX Helen M.     x         Architecture                  
KIRBY Emma   x   x                          
KIRK Edith Fanny     x     b.1858 d.1953 Painting                  
KIRKLAND Ellis Galea     x         Architecture                  
KIRKPATRICK Mary Lydia Dennistoun   x   x                          
KITCHEN Beatrice McDowell   x   x   b.1888 d.1947       Studied: Art Institute of Chicago         Kitchen, Beatrice McDowell "Pen and Ink Sketches from Chinese Life" (Methodist Mission Press, 1923) http://www.samthebutcherart.org/bioGorek.html: "My introduction to painting came via my mother, Muriel Kitchen Tonge, who learned from her mother, Beatrice McDowell Kitchen, a 1910 graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago."  Document in K file.
KITCHENER Madge   x   x                          
KITTO Margaret E.           b.1871 - London, England d.1925 - Victoria, BC Drawing; Painting: Watercolour, Mural painting; Fibres: Textiles British, immigrated to Canada in 1891   Studied: England Member: IACS       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
KIYOOKA Monica     x         Architecture                  
KLEINFELDT Carol x   x         Architecture                  
KLINCK Ronald W.   x   x                          
KNAFF Micheline     x         Architecture                  
KNOPF Ernestine   x x     b.(?) - Toronto, ON d.1976 Painting: Watercolour   Montreal, QC (1931); New York, NY; Laurentians (Knowlton, QC (1949))              
KNOTT Miss   x   x Active c.1896                        
KNOWLES Dorothy Elsie   x   x Active c.1927                        
KNOWLES Elizabeth Annie McGillvray (born Beach)           b.1866 - Ottawa, ON d.1928 - Riverton, WY, USA Painting   New York, NY, USA Studied: F McGillivray Knowles (Toronto, ON) Member: ARCA; HC   Husband: F. (Farquhar) McGillivray Knowles (his first wife). Uncle: FM Bell-Smith   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) was known in New York as "the canadian"
KNOWLES Ethel M.   x   x Active c.1926                        
KNOWLES Lila Caroline McGillvray (born Taylor) x x x     b.1886 - Granton, ON d.1967 - St Thomas, ON Painting     Studied: F McGillivray Knowles     Husband: F. (Farquhar) McGillivray Knowles (married after his first wife's (Elizabeth Annie McGillivray Knowles died)      
KNOWLES Maida Parlow (born French) (see PARLOW Maida)   x x     b.1891-Toronto, ON d.1977 Drawing: Pastel     Studied: F McGillivray Knowles (was his assistant for 2 years) Member: HC (1914); Toronto Art Gallery (1924)       French, Maida Parlow "Boughs Bend Over" (1944). French, Maida Parlow "All This to Keep" (1947) When her husband died she moved to a farm and made a living selling apples.
KNOX Agnes (see EARLE Agnes)   x   x Active c.1930     Painting             MMFA, NGC    
KNOX Isobel Mary (see HUFFMAN)   x x     b.1895 d.(?)                    
KOCHANSKI Vera   x   x Active c.1928                        
KODDO Galina Kurijanov       x   b.1916 - Russia   Painting   AB Studied: Tallinn Art School (Estonia); Under her Father Member: ASA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
KOHL Madeleine       x       Fibres: Textiles, Weaving, Silk   Montreal, QC             Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
KORTES Catherine   x   x   b.1907 d.1977 Sculpture             Arts Branch    
KOULIKOVSKI (also KOULIKOVSKY) Olga Alexandrovna     x     b.1882 - Peterhoff, Russia d.1960 - Cooksville, ON Painting: Watercolour, China Painting (also taught) Russian. Immigrated to Canada in 1948         Father: Alexander III (the czar of Russia). Mother:Marie Dagmar Princess of Denmark. Brother: Tsar Nicholas II. Niece: Grand Duchess Anastasia     involved with farming with her second husband
KRAVIS Janis   x   x Active c.1935                        
KREYES Marie Louise (born Bodewein)       x   b.1925 d.1983 Drawing; Painting     Studied: University of Manitoba Member: MSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
KUEHNER Martha   x   x Active c.1937                        
KUNU (Koonoo; Kunu)           b.1923 - Kangia Camp near Lake Harbour (now Kimmirut), Qikiqtaaluk Region, NU d.1966 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Fibres: Textiles Inuit NU              
KUSHNER Patricia Anne   x   x Active c.1939                        
KUSKOWSKI Magda x   x         Architecture                  
KYLE Gwendolen   x x     b.1880 d.(?) - Brockville, ON Painting: specialized in Miniature Landscapes; Drawing                 "tout petits payages qui rutilent de joie"
L                                  
LA8INONKIE x b.1783 d.1865 Textiles, Embroidery First Nations
L'AUBINIÈRE Georgina Martha de (born Steeple)           b.1848 - Balsall Heath, West Midlands, England d.1930 - Bodmin, Cornwall, England Painting: Watercolour British Canada; USA Studied: England; France (Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Leon Gerome)     Met her husband in France while studying   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
L'HEUREUX Elise           b.1827 d.1896                    
L'INCARNATION Marie de (born Guyart) x         b.1599 - Tours, France d.1672 - Quebec City, QC Fibres: Textiles French Quebec City, QC (missionary work)             Many discrepancies between her CWAHI bio and her Wikipedia bio (date of husband's death, profession of her parents, etc.)
LA GRAVE Soeur Marguerite Eulalie x x   x   b.1805 d.1859                    
LA ROCQUE Pierrette x x   x                          
LABINE Christiane     x         Architecture                  
LABRECQUE Suzanne     x         Architecture                  
LABRIE Mrs Paul       x   b.1921   Yard Artist (painted on wood cut-outs)   Ste Paul-de-la-croix, Riviere-du-Loup County, QC           Grosbois, Louise de "Les patenteux du Quebec" (Montreal: Editions Parti pris, 1978)  
LACROIX Marie   x   x Active c.1924                        
LADDS Elizabeth Saunders           b.1837 d.1922 Painting: Watercolour Irish ancestry Halifax, NS           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) birth/death discrepancy: 1837-1922 (file) c1921 (db)
LAFANE Roy   x   x                          
LAFONTAINE Marguerite de Montigny x x   x   b.1890 d.1982                    
LAJOIE Éléonore     x     b.(?) - Saint-Louis de l'Isle-aux-Coudres, QC d.(?) - Saint-Louis de l'Isle-aux-Coudres, QC Fibres: Textiles French-Canadian, Québécoise                
LAILEY Grace W.     x     b.1889 - Ontario d.1958 Painting: Landscapes                 File only contains the obituary
LAING Agnes   x   x Active c.1931-1936                   MMFA, Clara Lander    
LAING Effa     x     b.1876 - ON   Painting                 Had her first exhibit at 82 according to file
LAING Marian     x     b.1849 - Quebec City, QC d.1932 - Montreal, QC Painting: Flower Paintings                  
LAING Marion (same as above? typo?)   x   x   b.1849 d.1932                    
LAIRD Elma L.     x         Architecture                  
LALANDE Edith (see PATTERSON Edith)   x   x   b.1876 d.(?)                    
LALIBERTÉ Madeleine     x     b.1912 - Victoriaville, QC d.1998 - Quebec City, QC Painting; Drawing French-Canadian, Québécoise   Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Quebec City, QC); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LALIME Mme. Ernest   x   x Active c.1907           Studied: Saint-Hyacinthe, QC            
LAM Anna     x         Architecture                  
LAM Rosalie Te-Hue     x         Architecture                  
LAMARCHE Gail L.   x   x Active c.1938                        
LAMB Gail E.     x         Architecture                  
LAMB Sheila Best     x         Architecture                  
LAMB Miss   x   x                          
LAMB  Mollie (see BOBAK Molly)   x   x Active c.1922                        
LAMBART Evelyn   x   x Active c.1914                        
LAMBE Agnes M   x   x                          
LAMBE Annie M.   x x   Active c. 1897     Painting (painted a view of Tadoussac, QC)   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
LAMBE Elizabeth Haines (Libbie)   x   x                          
LAMBE Sarah M   x   x                          
LAMBERT Barbara Milne     x         Architecture                  
LAMBERT Mme Paul     x         Architecture                  
LAMBERT Phyllis           b.(?) d.(?)                    
LAMBERT Phyllis Bronfman   x   x Active c.1927                        
LAMBTON Gwenda x     x   b.1914   Printmaking; Drawing; Painting; Design: Graphic Design             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
LAMBUR Deborah Baptist Scott     x         Architecture                  
LAMONT Gwen Kortright Hutton   x   x   b.1909 d.1978                    
LAMONT Laura     x     b.1880 - Tara, ON d.1970 - Regina, SK Painting   SK Studied: Ontario College of Art         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LAMONT May Bastin     x     b.1890 - Winnipeg, MB   Painting     Studied: Winnipeg School of Art            
LAMOTHE Madeleine   x   x Active c.1927           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
LAMOTHE Marie   x   x Active c.1933     Ceramics: Clay Modelling     Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
LAMPERT Emma Esther   x   x Active c.1920                        
LAMPORT Miss E.E.   x   x Active c.1896     Painting                  
LAMPRECHT Gisela Helen Louise Von Eicken   x   x   b.1899 d.(?)                    
LANDORI Eva (Eva Landori-Hoffmann)   x x     b.1912 - Budapest, Hungary d.1987 - Painting: Oil; Printmaking; Drawing: Pastel; Ceramics; Fibres: Weaving; Design: Stage Design Hungarian, immigrated to Montreal in 1951   Studied: Jaschik Academy (Budapest, Hungary); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France)            
LANDRY MAry Florence   x   x Active c.1941     Painting                  
LANE Betty     x     b.1907 - Washington, DC, USA d.1996 - Cape Cod, MA, USA Painting   ON; Brewster, MA, USA           www.bettylane.com Her file at CWAHI contains a printout of bettylane.com
LANG  Byllee Fay   x   x   b.1908 d.1966 Sculpture     Studied: Winnipeg School of Art; OCA (Emanuel Hahn); State Academy (Munich, Germany) Member: MSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has biblio, and has document in L file
LANGDALE Stella     x     b. 1880 - Middlesex, England d. 1976 - Santa Barbara, CA, USA Drawing: Illustration; Painting; Printmaking British Victoria, BC (1939); CA, USA (1946)     Friends with Katharine Maltwood        
LANGELIER Pauline   x x   Active c. 1923     Sculpture   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
LANGFORD Adelaide Elizabeth Hurd (Mrs. Horace Ayliffe)     x     b.1854 d.1939 Painting: Mural painting   MB              
LANGFORD Allie       x Active c.1930                       Mentioned by Ellen Weston as one of the first professional canadian artists. Lived in Vancouver during the depression.
LANGHAM E.   x   x                          
LANGHAM Hon. Mrs.   x   x                          
LANGLEY Elizabeth     x         Architecture                  
LANGLOIS Marie   x   x Active c.1929                        
LANGSTADT Anne (see KAHANE Anne)   x   x Active c.1924                        
LANGTON Anne           b.1804 - Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, England d.1893 - Toronto, ON Painting: miniature, China Painting, Watercolour; Drawing British, immigrated to Canada in 1833   Studied: Europe         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Missing 1/5 files
LAPOINTE Mlle.C   x   x Active c.1884     Painting: portrait                  
LARIVIÈRE Pauline x x   x Active c.1924                   MMFA    
LAROSE Jeannine   x   x Active c.1934     Drawing   Taught: Drawing at Ecole des Beaux Arts              
LATOUR Claire   x   x                          
LAUBENTAL Sibyl Budde (mistakenly spelled Laubenthal)           b.1918 - Halle, Germany d.1961 - Edmonton, AB Ceramics German, immigrated to Canada in 1952               Bio-biblio in progress (FV)
LAUDER Florence     x   Active c. 1885     Painting                 One of her paintings is at the Royal Ontario Museum
LAUGHTON Minnie M x x   x Active c.1924     Ceramics                  
LAURIE Isabella (see OGILVY Isabella)   x   x                          
LAURIN Yolande   x   x Active c.1964     Painting: Enamel                  
LAUTERMAN Dinah           b.1900 - QC d.1945 Drawing; Printmaking; Sculpture     Studied: AAM (Randolph Hewton); Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal); Alfred Lalibert; Edwin Holgate; Charles Maillard         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LAVALLEE Denyse   x   x                          
LAVOYE Marie Ann Juliette x x   x Active c.1903                        
LAWRENCE Mary C       x   b.1899 d.(?) Painting     Studied: Banff School of fine Arts (HG Glyde) Member: ASA; RDAC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
LAWSON Edith (see COOMBS Edith)   x   x   b.1890 d.1986                    
LE BEUF C.   x   x                          
LE BLANC Jeanne   x   x                          
LE COCQ Doris   x   x Active c.1932     Ceramics; Sculpture   AB (1932)         CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio. has document in L file
LE MOINE Bertha (see LE MOYNE Berthe)   x   x                          
LE MOYNE Berthe (Bertha Le Moine)                                  
LEACH Beverly   x   x                          
LEAF Caroline   x   x                          
LEAF Mary           b.1925 - Akwesasne Indian Reserve, ON d.2003 Fibres: Basket Making, Basketry First Nations -- member of the Mohawk tribe   Studied: Basketry under her Mother, Josephine Thompson           Possibly has work at the Smithsonian  like Mary Kawennatakie Adams
LEATHER Ethel Armine (born Simpson)     x     b.1861 - Cheshire, England d.1957 - Duncan (?), BC Painting British                
LEAYCROFT Ida x x   x                          
LEBARRE Charlotte Tutty     x     b.1869 - Tilsonburg, Oxford County, ON d.1948 - Hamilton, ON Painting; Drawing: Pastels, Charcoal   Peterborough, ON; Hamilton, ON (1890)       Children: Juanita Lebarre Symington (artist)     Had a portrait Studio
LEBEL Eva   x   x Active c.1925           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures (Prize Winning student)            
LEBER Jeanne           b.1662 d.1714 Fibres: Textiles, Lace, embroidery French-Canadian Ville-Marie, QC (Now Montreal) Studied: Marguerite Bourgeoys and other sisters from the Congregation           Her work could be found at the Congregation Notre-dame and/or what the author of the database entry calls "église Notre-Dame" which might be the basilica at Place-d'Armes
LEBLANC Celestine       x       Fibres: Textiles, Weaving   Baie des Chaleurs, QC             Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
LEBOUTILLIER Ruby Vivian (Le Boutillier) x x x     b.1898 - Westmount, QC d.1986 Painting: Watercolour                  
LECLAIRE Irène   x   x Active c.1915     Ceramics                  
LECOMTE Thérèse         Active c.1916   Sherbrooke, Qc. Design: interior decorating, industrial design, advertising, graphic art; Ceramics: enamel; Painting: oils, watercolours; Drawing: charcoal;  Sculpture: jewelery making, engraving and metal work French-Canadian, Quebecoise Teacher              
LEDUC Angeline   x   x Active c.1927           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts (Prize Winning student)            
LEDUC-CUMMINGS Maryse x   x         Architecture                  
LEE Arnice   x   x                          
LEE Doris   x   x Active c.1936     Sculpture                  
LEE Ethel W.   x   x                          
LEE-SMITH Diana     x         Architecture                  
LEE-SMITH Marianne   x x     b.1872 d.(?) Painting: Flower Paintings   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
LEEFE Marjorie (see TOZER)     x                            
LEFKOVITZ Sylvia           b.1924 - Montreal, QC d.1987 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal); MMFA; Columbia University         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LEFORT Agnès (Marie Agnès Lefort)           b.1891 - Saint-Remi, QC d.1973 Drawing; Painting; Printmaking   Montreal, QC (opened an Art Gallery in 1950) Studied: Conseil des Arts et manufactures (Jospeh St. Charles; Charles Gill; Edmond Dyonnet) (Montreal, QC); JY Johnstone (Montreal, QC)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LEFORT Elizabeth x         b.1914 - Point Cross, NS d.2005 - Cheticamp, NS Fibres: Tapestry, Textiles, Rug Hooking                 There is a Dr. Elizabeth Lefort Rug Hooking Museum, located in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia
LEGENDRE Irène x         b.1904 - Fall River, MA, USA d.(?) Painting; Drawing   Montreal, QC (1981) Studied:  Ecole des beaux-arts (Quebec City, QC) (H Ivan Neilson, Lucien Martial); Amedee Ozenfant (New York, NY)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LEGENDRE Solange x x   x   b.1929 d.2004                    
LEHMANN Karin x   x         Architecture                  
LEIGHTON Barbara (Mrs. A.C. Leighton, Barbara Barleigh)       x   b.1910 d.1986 Printmaking     Studied: Alberta College of Art (Calgary, AB)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
LEIGHTON Clare (Clara)   x   x Active c.1931     Sculpture: Wood Engraving                  
LEITCH Martha Stewart     x         Architecture                  
LEMAY Aline (Aline May)           b.1904 - Quebec, QC d.(?) Photography French-Canadian, Québécoise                
LEMERCHANT Lady (Sally Elizabeth Smith)   x   x Active c.1848                 Husband: Sir Denis Le Marchant      
LEMIEUX Irene x x   x                          
LEMIEUX Marguerite   x x     b.1899 - Montreal, QC d.(?) Painting: Watercolour French-Canadian, Québécoise                
LEMIEUX Marilyn Robertson     x         Architecture                  
LEMIEUX Mlle B.   x   x Active c.1907           Studied: Saint-Hyacinthe, QC            
LE MOYNE Berthe (Bertha Le Moine)     x     b.1884 - Montreal, QC d.1958 Painting; Drawing: Illustration French-Canadian, Québécoise                
LENHARDT Molly           b.1920 d.(?) Painting; Drawing: Illustration Ukrainian father Melville, SK         CHIN, Arttexte    
LENNIE Beatrice (Edith Beatrice Catherine Lennie           b.1905 - Nelson, BC d.1987 Painting; Sculpture     Studied: Vancouver School of Art (FH Varley); California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco, CA)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LENNOX May x x   x                          
LENT Dora Geneva x     x   b.1904 d.1983 Painting; Drawing     Studied: Victor Reid; AC Leighton; Nicholas de Grandmaison Member: CHG     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
LEONARD O. de L.   x   x Active c.1910     Sculpture                  
LEONOWENS Anna Harriett (born Edwards)     x     b.1831 - Ahmadnagar, India d.1915 - Montreal, QC Writer British Co-Founded the Victoria School of Art and Design     Anna Leonowens is Anna of Anna and the King fame -- once in Canada she       She isn't on the web list, but her file is in the L cabinet.
LESLIE, Bailey       x   b.1904 - Lodz, Poland   Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: Central Technical School (Peter Haworth) (Toronto, ON) Member: CHG       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art  2.5 (Summer 1945) (p.188) name from Buis list.
LESSEL Marian I.   x   x                          
LESSORE Therese     x     b.1884 d.1945 Painting   ON              
LETENDRE Rita   x x     b.1928 - Drummondville, QC   Painting: Mural painting; Printmaking   Montreal, QC; Toronto (2011) Studied: Montreal, QC            
LETORNEUX Pauline   x   x Active c.1924           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Maufactures (Prize Winning Student)            
LETTICE Maude     x     b.1878 - Victoria, BC d.1976 Drawing; Painting: Watercolour         Contemporary of Emily Carr (perhaps younger?)        
LÉVEILLÉ Françoise   x x   Active c. 1933     Painting French-Canadian, Québécoise Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
LEVI Ruth Gwendolyn     x         Architecture                  
LEVINE Anne   x   x Active c.1915                        
LEVINE Marilyn   x   x Active c.1935                        
LEVIS Raquel   x   x Active c.1907 b.(?) - Shanghai, China                 AGO, NGC    
LEVY Tsipora   x   x Active c.1934                        
LEWIS Maude (born Dowley; Maud)           b.1903 - Ohio, Yarmouth Country, NS d.1970 - Digby, NS Painting     Studied: Under her mother         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LEWIS Winifred D.   x   x Active c.1933                   MMFA, Clara Lander    
LEY Cecile Senecal x x   x                          
LIACAS Natalie     x         Architecture                  
LIEBICH Dora       x       Fibres: Beadwork   Montreal, QC           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
LIEBICH Kathleen Chipman Sweeny   x   x   b.1892 d.(?) Painting     Studied: Bishop Strachan School (Mary Wrinch); School at the Grange (GA Reid) (Toronto, ON); Adam Sheriff Scott (Montreal, QC) Member: IAA; WAAM     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
LIGHTHALL Cybel       x       Fibres: Basket Making, Weaving,       Member: CHG         May 1913 Indian Pageant for the CHG (organizer)
LIGHTBODY Maya   x   x   b.1933 d.2006                    
LIGHTSTONE Hattie   x   x                          
LIMOGES Gabrielle   x   x Active c.1933     Painting     Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
LINDENFIELD Marianne   x   x                          
LINDGREN Charlotte (Mrs. Charles Lindgren)   x   x   b.1931   Fibres: Textiles             CHIN, U of C Library, Edmonton Art Gallery, Artexte, MAC, MMFA, AGO MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio. document in L file
LINDGREN Mrs. Charles   x   x Active c.1965                        
LINDOE Carroll (see MOPPETT Carroll)   x   x Active c.1918                        
LINDSAY Ellen Trider           b.1900 - Saint John, NB d.1962 - Halifax, NS Painting: Watercolour   Halifax, NS Studied: Nova Scotia College of Art (Elizabeth Nutt) (Halifax, NS) Member: NSSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LINDSAY Fanny Lord   x   x                          
LINDSAY Marguerite x x   x                          
LINDSEY Shelagh     x         Architecture                  
LING Joyce Rejeanne   x   x                          
LINTON Miss   x   x Active c.1896     Painting; Watercolour                  
LISKIND Sabine   x   x                          
LISTER Lois     x         Architecture                  
LITKE Lucille Thelma   x   x Active c.1932                        
LIVERNOIS Élise L'Hérault, dite L'Heureux     x     b.1827 - Quebec, QC d.1896 - Quebec, QC Photography French-Canadian, Québécoise         Possible relation to Jules-Ernest Livernois Photographer at the National Film Board      
LIVING Marion A.   x   x Active c.1895     Painting     Studied: First Technical School of Ottawa Exhibited: OSA (1900 - applied and decorative arts)          
LIVINGSTON Alice   x x   Active c.1891-97     Painting   Montreal, QC              
LIVINGSTON Grace M.   x   x Active c.1895     Ceramics                  
LOBSINGER Mary Lou     x         Architecture                  
LOCKERBY Isabel   x   x                          
LOCKERBY Mabel Irene           b.1882 - Montreal, QC d.1976 - Montreal, QC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner, Maurice Cullen) (Montreal, QC) Member: BHG; CGP; CAS       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LOCKWOOD Alvira           b.1845 - USA d.1923 Painting: China Painting, Oil; Photography Immigrated to Canada in 1954 Madrid, Spain; NY, USA              
LODOEN Theresa x     x   b.1912   Photography   AB         CHIN    
LOGAN Martha Alexander x x x     b.1863 - Hartford, CT, USA d.1937 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour                 Was involved in teaching
LOGAN Vivien   x   x                          
LOH Alice Cheng     x         Architecture                  
LOMAX Gabrielle   x   x Active c.1938     Design: Wallpaper Design                  
LOMER Lorna Gertrude (see MACAULAY)   x x     b.1881 d.(?)                    
LONDON Isabel (Isabelle)   x   x Active c.1924     Drawing? Printmaking: Ethcing? Design?                 "In the section of drawings, etchings and designs"
LONERGAN Maureen G.     x         Architecture                  
LONG Beatrice Mary (Beatrice Mary Carter)   x x     b.1877 - Kirton, Suffolk, England d.(?) Painting; Drawing British, immigrated to Canada in 1910 SK; AB; Town of Mount-Royal, Montreal, QC Studied: Camberwell School of Art (London). AAM (Edmond Dyonnet) (Montreal, QC)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LONG Marion           b.1882 - Toronto, ON d.1970 - Toronto, ON Painting     Studied: Central Ontario School of Art (GA Reid) (Toronto, ON); Laura Muntz Lyall (Toronto, ON); William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri (New York, NY) Member: ARCA; HC; OIP; OSA; RCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LONGHURST Miss N.O.       x       Fibres: Embroidery, Weaving   Montreal, QC           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). coronation gift to Queen Mary
LONGLEY x x   x                          
LORD Elizabeth M.     x         Architecture                  
LORD Lois A.R.   x   x Active c.1934     Still Life (unclear what medium)                 Still life that the reviewer did not like one bit.
LORENZ Charlotte Emily   x x     b.1871 - Montreal, QC d.1950 - Montreal, QC Painting                  
LORIMER Guillemette De   x   x                          
LORING Frances Norma           b.1887 - Wardner, ID, USA d.1968 - Newmarket, ON Sculpture Born in the U.S., moved to Toronto in 1913 Toronto (1913) Studied: Art Institute of Chicago; Ecole des Beaux Arts (Geneva); Academie Colarossi (Paris); Art Students League (New York) Member: SSC (Founder); ARCA; FCA; OSA; RCA; SSC; WAAC Lifelong companion of fellow sculptor Florence Wyle; they both studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Founded the Sculptors Society of Canada with: Emanuel Hahn, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Florence Wyle, Henri Hébert, and Alfred Howell.     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LOUDON Isabel Mary   x x     b.1884 - Toronto, ON d.(?) Fibres: Textiles (print designs); Drawing; Painting   Ottawa, ON Studied: Ontario College of Art;  FE Poole (London) Member: OAC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LOUGHEED Laura x     x       Ceramics: Pottery   ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
LOUIS Mary       x Active c.1928     Sculpture                  
LOUISE Princess, Duchess of Argyll (born Louise caroline Alberta, married titles include Marchioness of Lorne)   x x     b.1848 - London, England d.1939 - London, England Painting: Watercolour; Drawing; Sculpture British         Mother: Queen Victoria. Father: Prince Albert. Husband: John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Governor General     Artist of the monument to Queen Victoria in front of the Schulich School for Music (McGill University, Montreal, QC)
LOUNT Mrs. C.T.       x                     MCML,    
LOUVIN (see VINEBERG Louise)   x   x Active c.1924                        
LOVE Lady Mary Heaviside           b.1806 - Saint John, NB d.1874 - London, England Drawing; Painting: Watercolour   England Studied: London, England         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LOVELAND Louise A. (born Jervis; Mrs. Walter Loveland)   x x       d.1942 - Victoria, BC Painting British father                
LOVERING Ida R. x x x     b.1881 d.1903 Painting British     Exhibited: OSA (with Florence Carlyle)          
LOW Nesta   x   x                          
LOWDEN Catherine V   x   x                          
LOWE Nellie Keillor   x   x   b.1917 d.1967                    
LOYNES Mlle de   x   x Active c.1909     Painting: Watercolour                  
LOZIER Rose   x   x Active c.1912     Design: Book Cover Design, Book Binding                  
LUCOW Marion   x   x Active c.1918                        
LUKE Anne     x         Architecture                  
LUKE Jane Corbus (Mrs. E. B. Luke)           b.1881 - Chicago, IL, USA d.(?) - Montreal, QC Painting: Oil Came to Canada in 1904. Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC Studied: William Brymner, G Horne Russell and Berthe des Clayes (Montreal, QC) Member: AAM; WAAC   Husband: Edward Luke   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LUKE Alexandra (Margaret Alexandra Luke, Margaret McLaughlin; Mrs. C. E. McLaughlin)           b.1901 - Montreal, QC d.1967 - ON Painting: Watercolour   Oshawa, ON Studied:  Banff School of Fine Arts (AY Jackson, Jock MacDonald); Hans Hofmann (Provincetown, CT) Member: CGP; Painters 11; CSPWC; HC; OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LUMB Ida x     x   b.1878   Drawing             CHIN, Clara Lander    
LUMBERS Carol x x   x                          
LUSIGNAN Camille     x         Architecture                  
LUXTON Mlle       x Active c.1896     Painting             There is a Barbara Luxton at U of C, NGC. Most likely the same   Mentioned in Toronto Saturday Night reviewing a show in Hamilton.
LUZ Virginia Erskine   x x     b.1911 - Toronto, ON   Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Central Technical School (Peter Haworth, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Carl Schaefer) (Toronto, ON) Member: ARCA; CSPWC; OSA; RCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
LYALL Laura Muntz (Laura Adeline Muntz; Mrs. C. W. B. Lyall)           b.1860 - Radford, Warwickshire, England d.1930 - Toronto, ON Painting British, came to Canada as a child Toronto, ON (Taught Art) Studied: Ontario School of Art (Lucius O'Brien) (Toronto, ON); WC Forster (Hamilton, ON); GA Reid (Toronto, ON); St John's Wood Art School (Paul-Joseph Blanc, Gustave Courtois and Louis-Auguste Girardot) (London, ON); Academie Colarossi (Paris) Member: RCA; OCA; ARCA; HC; OSA          
LYMAN Abigail Agnes     x   Active c.1810-79     Drawing; Painting: Watercolour, Gouache, Botanical   New Haven, CT, USA             Abigail Lyman's Herbarium was donated to the Musee du Quebec by a Mrs. John Lyman
LYNCH Agnes x x   x                          
LYNCH Elsie   x   x                          
LYONS Catherine     x   Active c.1823-1850 b.1794 d.1857 Painting: portrait                 Unclear whether the portrait of Englishman Goldwin Smith was painted in Canada or England. (1823-1910)
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MAARTENSE Gertrude Jacoba       x   b.1918 - Leerdam, Netherlands   Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Holland; University of Alberta (HG Glyde, JB Taylor and William Townsend) Member: MSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has review
MAASSIN Maria Magdalena       x   b.1785 d.1870 Drawing: Ink               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" Exhibition Catalogue available at CWAHI.  
MACARTHUR Lucille Casey (Mrs. John Alexander)     x     b.1844 - MS, USA d.1902 Painting     Studied: Montreal; New York; Julian Academy (Paris) (c.1886)            
MACAULAY Lorna Lomer (Mrs. R. R. Macaulay)   x x     b.1881 - Montreal, QC   Painting; Drawing: pastel and portrait; Design: Wallpaper Design.                 Her paintings were used for Canadian Artists Series of Christmas Cards by Rous & Mann (a toronto based design and advertising firm) in 1924. She also made wallpaper designs in 1938
MACBEAN Clara Sophia     x     b.1841 - Cobourg, ON d.(?) Painting   Geneva, Switzerland; Montreal, QC Studied: William Raphael (Montreal, QC) Member: Montreal Art Society          
MACBETH Mrs       x Active c.1894         Toronto, ON              
MACDERMID Margaret Vickers       x   b.1899       SK              
MACDERMOT Audrey M   x   x                          
MACDONALD Anne Belinda Gwenllian   x   x Active c.1929                        
MACDONALD  Belinda (Anne Belinda Gwenllian MacDonald?)       x Active c.1929 b.(?) - Dibrugarh, India d.(?) - London, ON                    
MACDONALD Beverley   x   x                          
MACDONALD Catherine M.     x         Architecture                  
MACDONALD Elsie Amy   x   x   b. 1906 - London, England   Painting     Studied: W Hoverman; Harold Beament Member: IAA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MACDONALD Lucy Maud (see MONTGOMERY)   x x                            
MACDONALD Nancy   x   x                          
MACDONALD Susan     x         Architecture                  
MACDONALD-BROWN Edith Hester     x     b.1880 d.1956 Painting: Game, Wildlife, Flowers                  
MACDONELL Harriett J.     x   Active c.1892-1922     Painting: Watercolour, China Painting; Drawing: Pyrography   Montreal, QC; Taught: Victoria School of Art (Montreal, QC)   Exhibited: AAM (1895) her pyrography work         pyrography (technique of decorating wood by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point)
MACDONNELL Harriet J x x   x                          
MACDOUGALL Nini (Annie?)   x   x   b.1915   Painting     Studied: Art Students League (Adam Sheriff Scott, FH Varley, Fritz Brandtner, Arthur Lismer) (New York, NY)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has review
MACFARLANE Eleanor J.   x x   Active c.1924-30     Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
MACINTOSH Mary   x   x Active c.1923     Painting                  
MACINTYRE MArjory Shives   x   x   b.1898 d.1948               NGC    
MACK Mary Agnes   x x     b.1899 - Cornwall, ON d.(?) Painting     Studied: Montreal, QC; Paris, France   Exhibited with Lorna Lomer 1939 in Montreal.       In 1946 she was elected as an alderman in East Central Ward of Cornwall. She entered politics via her welfare work (worked offering unemployment relief during the depression). She was a key figure in organizing the Social Service Council which became the Family Welfare Bureau. Worked with the Red Cross.
MACKAY Abigail   x   x                          
MACKAY Marion       x Active c.1936                        
MACKAY Mollie Bell       x Active c.1935                        
MACKENZIE Alice Beirne Sawtelle   x   x   b.1898 d.(?)                    
MACKENZIE Alison F   x   x                          
MACKENZIE Margaret   x   x                          
MACKENZIE Marion A   x   x Active c.1906                        
MACKIE Mary     x         Architecture                  
MACKIE Stella   x   x                          
MACKINNON-PEARSON Ella Cecilia   x x     b.1882 - St Catherine, ON d.(?) Painting; Ceramics: Pottery   Exhibited: Paris (Paris Salon) Studied: France; Buffalo Art Students League (Buffalo, NY); Edouard Leon (Paris, France) Member: Buffalo Guild of Allied Arts; St Catharines Guild of Arts and Crafts; NY Society of Craftsmen; Boston Society of Arts and Crafts; AAM; SAFP       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MACKLEM Katherine B.   x   x                          
MACKLIN Edith     x     b.1871 - Fenella, ON   Painting   Raised on a farm outside of Cobourg. Studied: Moulton Ladies College (c.1880's)           no online record. Spent time at the Winchester Castle in England at 19. Raised on a farm outside of Cobourg.
MACLAREN Frances Mary Hewson       x   b.1918 d.2009 Painting     Studied:  Nova Scotia College of Art (Elizabeth Styring Nutt, Donald C MacKay) (Halifax, NS); Betty Smith; Ruth Wainwright Member: NSSA   Husband: George MacLaren CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MACLEAN Eileen       x Active c.1930                        
MACLEAN Sarah Jean Munro (Mrs. Lachlan A. Maclean)           b.1873 - Pictou, NS d.1952 Painting     Studied: Boston; Liverpool, England; Heatherly's School of Art (London); EM Carpenter (Boston, MA); AAM (William Brymner)(Montreal, QC) Member: Women's Art Society; Girls Work Board of the Religious Education Association (First chairman); Women's Missionary Society; AAM  (Elenore MacFarlane, Lorna Lomer Macaulay, Mary Mack 1939)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MACLEAN Susan     x   Active c. 1880 b.(?) - Manitoba   Painting: China Painting   CA, USA (1942); Vancouver BC Studied: Augustus Kenderdine (Emma Lake, SK); AC Leighton (Banff, AB) Member: Royal Society of Artists (Associate Member); Saskatoon Art Center (1950-1960's)          
MACLEAY Rosanna Stewart x x x     b.1887 - KS, USA d.1958 Painting Moved to Canada in 1909. Danville, QC Studied: Self-Taught. Awarded Jessie Dow Prize for Oil Painting at Montreal Spring Exhibition (1943)            
MACLENNAN Dorothy Duncan       x Active c.1903-57         Montreal, QC              
MACLEOD Grace Roberts           b.1889 - Cornwall, ON d.1982 Painting   Taught: Glengarry district, ON (in a one room school house)              
MACLEOD Hazel A Parks   x   x                          
MACLEOD Mary W x   x   Active c.1921-22   d.(?) - ON                    
MACLEOD Pegi Nicol (Margaret Kathleen Nicol MacLeod)         Active c.1904-49 b.(?) - ON   Painting; Design; Drawing: Illustration New York, NY, USA (1937) with husband Norman Macleod 1942 she opened the Observatory Art Center in Fredricton, NB with Lucy Jarvis (which was soon after absorbed by the University of New Brunswick) Studied: Franklin Brownell (Ottawa, ON); Ecole des Beaux-arts (Montreal, QC) Member: CGP; CSPWC; OAA; PLS Opened the Observatory Art Center with Lucy Jarvis (Fredricton, NB) Husband: Norman Macleod   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) She designed and illustrated for the publication "The Canadian Nation" (1929). As did she write reviews about an R.C.A exhibition for the Ottawa Citizen in 1929. She was very interested in native west coast culture, and this is reflected in her subject matter. She was outspoken about women's rights (fashion included)
MACLURE Margaret Catherine (Margaret Simpson)     x     b.1869 - Scotland d.1938 - Victoria BC Painting: Portraits of First Nations Women; Drawing: Illustration; Design: Book Design Scottish. Immigrated to Canada in 1886. She lived in India with her father until she was 8 years old, but went
back to Scotland upon her fathers death. She moved to Victoria B.C. in 1888
with her mother and her new husband Rev. Patrick Macfarlane Macleod
    Member: Island Arts and Crafts Society (Victoria, BC); Alexandra Club   Husband: Samuel Maclure (architect, married in 1889). Children: Catherine, Kitty, Merione (Mrs. A.M. Mellin) Provincial Archives (British Columbia), British Museum (Natural History) South Kensington, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Harris, Martha Douglas "The History and Folklore of Cowichan Indians" (Victoria, B.C.: The Colonist printing and publishing company, 1901). A copy of which was presented to the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall when they visited Victoria 1899/1900*. see: Victoria Columnist May 16 1977 Accomplished pianist. She insisted on making all her children's clothes. Father was killed working on building the bridge over the Hooghly River, India
MACNUTT H.R. x x   x                          
MACPHERSON Annie A.H.   x   x                          
MACPHERSON Jessie     x   Active c.1859   d.(?) - NS Painting: Watercolour   NS   She was featured in an exhibition in 1985 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia- where artworks that pertain to family records from before 1900 were the subject          
MACPHERSON Margaret Campbell           b.1860 - St Johns, NL d.1931 Painting   Paris, France Studied: Edinburgh; Auguste-Henri Berthoud (Neuchâtel, Switzerland);
Academie Colarossi (Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Gustave
Courtois) (Paris, France); JW Nichol
Member: SSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) described as "Canadienne Anglaise" by La Patrie (1900)
MACPHERSON Phyllis   x   x                          
MACRAE Marion x   x         Architecture                  
MACTAVISH Janet     x         Architecture                  
MACVICAR Annie   x   x                          
MACVICAR Elizabeth M   x   x Active c.1925                        
MACY Chris     x         Architecture                  
MAGEE Phoebe A   x   x                         There is Phoebe A. Joslin who was born in 1875 in Vancouver and moved to California at a later date. Magee is listed as living in Kitchener Ontario.
MAHLOY-NAGY Sibyl     x         Architecture                  
MAILLET Corinne Dupuis (pseudonyms: Rhobena Dippy, Colin Martel)           b.1895 d.1989 Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MAINTENON Mme De       x Active c.1917                        
MAITLAND E.J.F. x x   x                          
MAJOR Alice       x Active c.1850                       See emails from: Allan Smith to CWAHI (available at CWAHI)
MAJOR Geraldine   x   x Active c.1901                        
MALCOURONNE Kathleen Delacour   x x     b.1885 d.1951 Drawing: Illustration; Design   Montreal, QC             Personal diary in file at CWAHI documentation center.
MALIK Asia     x         Architecture                  
MALLETT Margaret           b.1911   Photography (Would often handcolor her photographs afterwards)   Charlottetown, PEI (Became the first professional female photographer in Charlottetown)              
MALLOWS Nellie       x Active c.1936                        
MALO Mlle. L. x     x Active c.1925                        
MALOTT Ann Gauthier     x         Architecture                  
MALTAIS Marcelle   x   x Active c.1933     Painting             CHIN, Artexte MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
MALTBY Beatrice J   x   x                          
MALTBY Mary       x                          
MALTWOOD Katherine Emma (born Sapsworth)     x     b.1878 - London, England d.1961 - Victoria, BC Painting; Sculpture English, moved to Victoria in 1938 Victoria, BC in 1938 (where she produced works for the Alice and Elbert Hubbard - key figures in the American Arts&Crafts Movement) Studied: Moira House (1890's); Slade School (London, England)   Friends with Stella Langdale Husband: John Maltwood (advertising magnate, married: 1901)   Brown, Rosemary Alicia. "Katharine Emma Maltwood Artist 1878-1961" (Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1981) Moira House: a progressive and unorthodox school for girls dedicated to the idea of
women's emancipation (from the book Katharine Emma Maltwood Artist
1878-1961 by Rosemary Alicia Brown. Page19).  After marrying the wealthy advertising Magnate John Maltwood she was thereafter able to devote her life to travel and collecting artworks. She also is given credit for discovering the Glastonbury Zodiac (zodiac signs made up of geographic markers rather than stars).
MAN Vera       x Active c.1905                   Clara Lander    
MANAREY Thelma Alberta (MRs C.H. Harvey)           b.1931 - Edmonton, AB d.1984 Painting; Printmaking: Etching (Miniature)   AB Studied: HG Glyde; Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (Calgary, AB);  Banff School of Fine Arts (Chalres Stegeman) Member: ASA; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Known for her miniature etchings. She loved Alberta.
MANIAS Grace   x   x Active c.1942                        
MANN Miss (is this olive mann?) x     x Active c.1895                        
MANN Olive   x   x Active c.1922                        
MANNCHEN Karin     x         Architecture                  
MANNING Joanne Elizabeth (Jo, Joan Elizabeth Manning, Jo Rothfelds)   x   x Active c.1923     Painting; Printmaking; Drawing     Studied: (OCA)John Alfsen Member: ARCA; PDCC     CHIN, MMFA, Ellen Gallery Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
MANSON Marie Roberta   x   x Active c.1933                        
MANUEL Mildred BEamish (born Brooks; Mrs C.E. Manuel)       x   b.1899 d.(?) Painting   NS Studied: OCA (George Pepper); Nova Scotia College of Art (Halifax, NS) Member: NSSA     CHIN, Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MARCEAU Elmire     x   Active c.1825 b.(?) - QC   Painting; Drawing     Studied: Le Convent de Jesus-Marie de Saint-Anselme de Dorchester            
MARCHAND Suzanne   x   x                          
MARCOUX-CAILLE Mme       x Active c.1959               Friends with Ghitta Caiserman       "member of the painting jury" along with Ghitta Caiserman
MARCUSE Margaret   x   x                          
MARIE JEAN Soeur       x       Fibres: Textiles, Weaving: Ceinture Flechée   QC              
MARKGRAF Waltraud Erna Else Lisa   x   x Active c.1937                        
MARKLE Edna E       x Active c.1907                        
MARKOVICH Lenora L.     x         Architecture                  
MARKSON Mayta   x   x Active c.1931                        
MARIE-ANASTASIE Soeur (Laura Tourangeau)     x     b.1909 - Ville St-Laurent, QC d.1989 Painting: Glass Painting; Sculpture; Printmaking                  
MARLATT Lilian Rogers     x     b.1885 - Belmore, ON d.1951 Painting     Studied: F McGillivray Knowles (Toronto, ON)            
MARLER Adelaide   x   x                          
MARLER Audrey E   x   x                          
MARLIN Bridget (see OAKLEY Bridget)   x   x                          
MARLING J.W.   x   x                          
MARLOW Miss D.F.       x Active c.1925                        
MAROT Germaine       x Active c.1924                        
MARQUETTE Hilda (see RUSTON Hilda)   x   x Active c.1908                        
MARR Octavia (Ottavio?) Elizabeth Tyler       x   b.1891   Painting   NS Studied: Victoria School of Art and Desing (HM Rosenberg, Lewis Smith and Arthur Lismer)(Halifax, NS) Member: NSSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MARSH Winifred Florence Petchey (also Petchy)   x   x   d.1905   Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Hornsey School of Arts and Crafts (London, England)     Husband: Donald Marsh CHIN, Edmonton Art Gallery Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
MARSHALL Jennifer     x         Architecture                  
MARSHALL Marguerite   x   x                          
MARSHALL Mme Léon       x Active c.1931                        
MARSOLAIS Laurette       x Active c.1927                        
MARTEL Lucyl       x Active c.1927                        
MARTEL Margo   x   x Active c.1958                        
MARTIN Agnes Bernice (born Fenwick)       x   b. 1912 d. 2004 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Columbia University; University of New Mexico Member: SCPE     CHIN, Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). "One of her works is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada."
MARTIN Bernice Fenwick           b.1902 - Shelbourne, ON d.1999 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking; Drawing     Studied: JW Beatty; Frank Carmichael Exhibited:  RCA (1945-1947)          
MARTIN Blanche   x   x Active c.1921                   MMFA    
MARTIN Dorothy Matheson x     x   b.1909 d.1984     SK   Member: Arts Branch          
MARTIN Édith           b.1918   Fibres: Textiles                  
MARTIN Élizabeth (Soeur Marie-Hélène de la Croix)           b.1861 - St Jacques, QC d.1956 Painting     Studied: Lachine, QC; Montreal, QC           became a nun in 1886
MARTIN Emma May x         b.1865 - Toronto, ON d.1957 - Montreal, QC Painting: Watercolour   Toronto, ON; Muskoka, ON; Eastern Townships, QC; Exhibited a watercolour at the Chicago Worlds Fair 1893 Studied: T. Mower Martin (Her Father) (founding member of the RCA). Member: OSA (Elected in 1887)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MARTIN Mrs. Henry x x   x                          
MARTIN Therese x x   x                          
MARTYN Carol E   x   x   b.1916 d.1995               MMFA, MAC, ArtTexte    
MARX May   x   x Active c.1928                        
MASON Lillian     x     b.1887 - London, England d.(?) - Windsor, ON Painting British. Raised on a farm near Worchestershire, England Raised on a farm near Worchestershire, England             her niece was mentioned in a newspaper article and was said to be editing her memoirs- unclear if they are in fact published
MASON M   x   x Active c.1881-1924 b.1842 - Lambeth, England d.1924 - Victoria, BC Painting: China Painting                  
MASON Mary     x                            
MASSEY Pixie Elizabeth Mudge   x   x Active c.1944                        
MASSICOTTE Suzanne       x Active c.1928           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
MASTERS Noreen   x   x                          
MATHER Jean       x Active c.1928                   MMFA, Clara Lander    
MATHIAS Harriett (see MATTHIAS Harriett)   x   x                          
MATHUR Florence   x   x Active c.1934                        
MATTE-DESROSIERS Anne-Marie       x Active c.1965     Fibres: 'Needle Painting', Embroidery             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews. has document in M file
MATTHEWS Vera (see IRVING Vera)   x   x Active c.1913                        
MATTHIAS Harriett   x   x                          
MATTICE Hortense (see GORDON Hortense)   x   x   b.1889 d.1961                    
MATTICE Marion Eve   x x     b.1878 - Hamilton, ON d.1956 Painting   Taught: Hamilton Art School; head of the Art Department at the Hamilton Conservatory of Music Studied: John Ireland; F McGillivray Knowles; Charles W Hawthorne     Sister: Hortense Gordon (Early abstract painter from Hamilton, ON)     . Her painting "Motherhood" was shown at the OSA
MATSUZAKI Eva     x         Architecture                  
MAURY Louise M   x   x                          
MAW Katherine Beatrice (Betty) see BRETT   x x     b.1910 d.1994                    
MAXWELL Elizabeth     x   Active c.1927     Painting   Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts            
MAY Betty   x   x                          
MAY Christiane Klitgaard   x   x   b.1876 d.1954                    
MAY Clara Bohm     x         Architecture                  
MAY Elsa   x x   Active c.1915-22     Painting: Portrait, Landscape   Montreal, QC              
MAY Isabel   x   x                          
MAY H. (Henrietta) Mabel           b.1877 - Montreal, QC d.1971 - Burnaby, BC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner) Member: RCA; BHG; BCSA; CGP; FCA Friends with Emily Coonan     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MAYERS Arlene Marcy   x   x                          
MAYHEW Elza Edith (born Lovitt) (also Elsa?) x         b.1916 - Victoria, BC d.2004 - Victoria, BC Sculpture; Painting; Drawing     Studied: UBC; Jan Zach (1955-1958) (Victoria BC) Member: ARCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MAYNARD Hannah Hatherly           b.1834 - Bude, England d.1918 - Victoria, BC Photography: Landscape, Portrait (alongside her husband), experimental photo collage British Victoria, BC (Mrs R Maynard's Photographic Gallery, one of the first photo studios in Victoria, BC) Studied: Photography in Ontario         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCARTHUR Betty MArie x x x     b.1923 - Port Colborne, ON d.1994 - Woodstock, ON Painting                  
MCARTHUR L.C. x x   x                          
MCAVITY Emily Dorothy Irvin     x     b.1876 - Halifax, NS d.1958 Painting: Portrait     Studied: Self-taught Member: RSA   Husband:  Harry McAvity     Sold First painting at the age of 10. Painted the Prince of Wales in 1922. London, England
MCBURNEY Elizabeth B.   x   x Active c.1925                        
MCCAIG Mrs.       x Active c.1896     Drawing                 Has a foreshortnened oxen drawing in file
MCCALL Ann   x   x Active c.1941 b.1899 - Toronto, ON d.1957 - Dollarton, BC Photography: (photographed the West Coast and sold postcards of her photos) Grew up in rural BC               Photographed the Sunshine Coast during the 1920's and 1930's. Sold postcards
MCCALL Helen (born Barnard)           b.1899 d.1957                    
MCCALLUM Mrs. Donald     x     b.1873 - Balitmore, MD d.(?) - Penticton, BC Painting   Keremeos, BC Studied: Maryland Institute of Art and Design     Husband: was an orchardist     with her orchardist husband and didn't paint from 1903-1954. Had to stop painting due to ill health (1965)
MCCALLUM Nancy x   x         Architecture                  
MCCARTHY Doris Jean           b.1910 - Calgary, AB d. 2010 - Scarborough, ON Painting: Watercolour   Toronto, ON (Founding instructor of Arthur Lismer's Children's classes at the Art Gallery of Toronto, 1930-35) Studied: Ontario College of Art (Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald, JW Beatty, Emanuel Hahn) Member: RCA; OSA (First female president of the OSA (1964-1966); Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCCAUGHERTY Irene Eleanor           b.1914 - Hardieville, AB d.1996  - Fort Macleod, AB Painting: Watercolour   Began painting late in her life.           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Her work reflects her interest in Alberta. Began painting late in her life.
MCCAUGHEY Betty M. French x x   x Active c.1921                        
MCCLAIN Helen Charleton L. x x x     b.1884 d.1960 Painting   Toronto, ON Studied: Arts Students League (Kenneth Hays Miller and R Sloan Bredin) (New York, NY);  New York School of Fine and Applied Art Member: OSA; HC (Toronto, ON)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCCLELLAND (McClellan) Norma Harriet       x   b.1913   Painting     Studied: Miss Kay and Robert Hyndman (Toronto, ON)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCCONNELL Miss   x   x Active c.1894                        
MCCONNELL M. Cary   x x   Active c.1894-96     Painting   Toronto, ON   Member: Women's Art Association Exhibited and travelled with Mary Dignam to Paris and Holland (1896)        
MCCORD Anne Ross     x   Active c.1841-52     Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Montreal, QC     Husband: John Samuel McCord (who made major decisions regarding landscape architecture of Mount Royal in Montreal)      
MCCORMACK June Forbes       x   b.1921 d.1961 Painting     Studied: Bishop Strachan School (Toronto, ON); OCA. Member: OIP   Father: Kenneth Forbes (painter) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MCCULLOCH Elizabeth   x   x                          
MCCULLOCH Mabel (see GASS)     x     b.(?) d.1977                    
MCCULLOUGH Mrs Charles R   x   x Active c.1939                        
MCCULLOUGH  Norah       x   b.1903 d.1993               NGC, AGO    
MCDONALD Mary     x         Architecture                  
MCDONALD Mrs.       x                         Mrs. Keith McDonald? Veronica McDonald? Unmarried name of Pridham? Documents are undated, could be 1920s. On CHIN, she has a 1964 review.
MCDONNEL Arlene     x                            
MCDOUGALL Annie           b.1866 - Trois-Rivieres, QC d.1952 - Montreal, QC Photography                 The McCord Museum now owns a portion of her work. 185 negatives were donated by Leslie Howard Millar (nephew)
MCDOUGALL Ida Lawson   x   x Active c.1925                        
MCDOUGALL Isabella x     x   b.1806 d.1882 Painting: Watercolour               "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
MCDOWELL Madeleine   x   x                          
MCFADDEN Mary Josephine       x   b.1900   Painting     Studied: Gordon Payne School of Fine Art (Fred Fraser, Arnold Hodgkin) Member: HVAC, WAAH     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MCFEE Louisa       x Active c.1881     Drawing: 'Black and white Crayon'                  
MCGEOCH Lillian Jean (Mrs. Albert D. McGovern)           b.1903 - Sunridge, ON d.1992 Painting; Sculpture: Wood Carving, Metal Work; Ceramics: Pottery   Toronto, ON Studied: Central Technical School (Alfred Howell) (Toronto, ON); Ontario College of Art (JW Beatty, GA Reid) Member: Women's Art Association (Toronto, ON); HPGP; NSSA; WAAH       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCGIFFIN Clare V.     x         Architecture                  
MCGILL Margaret x   x   Active c. 1923-35                        
MCGILL Winifred (see FOX Winifred)   x   x Active c.1969                        
MCGILLIVRAY Florence Helena           b.1864 - Whitby, ON d.1938 - Toronto, ON Painting     Studied: Toronto, ON; New York, NY; Simon and Menard (Paris, France); Ontario School of Art (William Cruikshank,  JWL Forster) (Toronto, ON); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris, France) Member: ARCA; CSPWC; HC; OSA (1917); SWPS. Exhibited: Salon des Beaux Arts in Paris, France (1913)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCGOVERN Beatrice     x     b.(?) - Derbyshire, England d.1967 - St John, NB Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1925                
MCINDOE Marion C x x   x Active c.1914     Ceramics                 McCord Museum (a 1910 painted pitcher of hers is there see: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M981.105.37?Lang=1&accessnumber=M981.105.37)
MCINTYRE Eileen     x         Architecture                  
MCKAGUE Muriel Yvonne (see HOUSSER)   x x     b.1898 d.1996                    
MCKAY Sherry     x         Architecture                  
MCKEAN Janet Cordelia     x     b.1887 - Pictou, NS d.(?) Painting; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: Mount Allison University (1906); Women's Art School (New York, NY)(1907-1908) Member: Nova Scotia Society of Artists          
MCKENNA Alice       x Active c.1927                        
MCKENNA Marianne     x         Architecture                  
MCKERNAN Mrs. Neil     x         Architecture                  
MCKIE Mary Rebecca           b.1825 d.1883 Drawing; Painting: Watercolour   NS              
MCKIEL Christian Harris           b.1889 - Pictou, NS d.1978 - Sackville NB Drawing: Pastels; Painting: Oil; Printmaking     Studied: Mount Allison University (1908-1911); Art Student's League (New York, NY) (1911-12); Frank Vincent DuMond (Cape Breton, NB); Charles Hawthorne (Provincetown, CT) Member: MAA; NSSA; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCKIM Irene x x   x   b.(?) d.2001 Painting; Sculpture             CHIN, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Bio and info in M file
MCKIM Kathleen x       x     Pottery               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art 2.5 (Summer 1945), 188.  
MCKINLEY Ruth Gowdy     x     b.1931- New York, NY, USA d.1981 - Missasauga, ON Pottery                  
MCLAREN Agnes Maude     x     b.1882 - Orangeville, ON         Studied: New York, NY; Toronto, ON Member: Women's Art Association          
MCLAREN Audrey       x   b.1916   Photographer         Worked with Alma Duncan        
MCLAREN Dora   x   x                          
MCLARREN Dorothy Harris   x   x                          
MCLAUGHLIN Isabel Grace           b.1903 - Oshawa, ON d.2002 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour; Drawing     Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer); Hans Hofmann (Provincetown); Paris, France; Emil Bisttram (New Mexico) Member: CGP (founding memnber: 1933; President: 1939); HC; OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCLAUGHLIN Margaret Alexandra (see LUKE)     x                            
MCLAUGHLIN Nellie x x   x                          
MCLEAN MAry   x   x Active c.1924                        
MCLEAN Mrs. L.A.   x   x                          
MCLEISH Annie   x x   Active c. 1909-35     Drawing: pastel, pencil                  
MCLEISH Minnie   x   x Active c.1910                 Possibly Annie Mcleish's sister      
MCLELLAND Elizabeth K   x   x                          
MCLENNAN Louise Ruggles Bradley     x     b.1860 - Chicago, IL, USA d.1912 - Sydney, NS Painting: Watercolour                  
MCLEOD Elizabeth A.   x x     b.1875 - Pointe de Bute, NB d.1963 - Sackville, NB Painting     Studied: Mount Allison University; Art Students' League (New York); Charles Hawthorne (Provincetown) Member: Sackville Art Association (President)          
MCLEOD Elizabeth Fraser   x   x                          
MCMAHON Gertrude   x   x Active c.1923                        
MCMASTER Florence Bryson       x   b.1915 d.2003               NGC    
MCMICKING Ethel May     x   Active c.1873-1919 b.(?) - Yale, BC   Painting: China Painting     Studied: WM Allan (Victoria, BC)            
MCNAUGHT Euphemia (Betty)           b.1902 - Glen Morris, ON d.2002 - Beaverlodge, AB Painting   Taught: Mount Royal College (Calgary, AB) Studied: Ontario College of Art (Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald) Member: The Grande Prairie Art Club (Founder); The Beaverlodge Art Club; Alberta Society of Artists.       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCNAUGHTON Ethel Payne   x   x   b.1908 d.1996               NGC    
MCNEIL Joan x   x         Architecture                  
MCNICHOLS Helene (*not MCNICHOLL Helen who died in 1915)       x Active c.1930                        
MCNICOLL Helen Galloway           b.1879 - Toronto, ON d.1915 - Swanage, England Painting     Studied: Montreal Art Association (William Brymner); The Slade School of Art (London); Algernon Talmage (St Ives, England) Member: ARCA; RBA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MCPHEE Iva Haisman   x   x Active c.1931                        
MCPHILLIPS Mary x x   x                          
MCQUEEN Isabel   x   x Active c.1906                        
MCQUEEN Monica     x         Architecture                  
MCTAGGART Marilyn       x                     Manitoba Crafts Museum    
MCTAVISH Rita     x   Active c.1893   d.(?) - Victoria, BC Drawing     Studied: St. Ann's Art Academy (Victoria, BC) (c. 1890's)            
MCWILLIAMS Lucy Jane   x   x Active c.1904                   AGO    
MEAGHER Aileen Alethea           b.1910 d.1987 Painting     Studied: Nova Scotia College of Art (Ruth Wainwright, Bruce Hunter) (Halifax, NS); Doon School of Fine Art (Ontario) Member: NSSA     CHIN, Artexte, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews. Participated in the 1936 Olympic Games
MEAGHER Mary       x                          
MEARES Ina (Hermina) x x x     b.1921 - Grays, England c. 1921 - Picton, ON Painting: Watercolour. Printing: Lithogrphy (production manager) British, immigrated to Canada in 1952. Worked: England as a Production Manager at a Litography Press (1949-51) Studied: Doon School of Fine Arts (JWG MacDonald, Paavo Airola, Carl Shaefer) (Toronto, ON); University of Saskatchewan Summer Art School at Emma Lake (1962)            
MEASE Ruth T   x   x                          
MEE Fiona     x         Architecture                  
MEEK Nancy Pocock     x     b.1911 -  Chicago, IL, USA d.1998 - Toronto, ON Jewellery Making       Member: Voice of Women (sisterhood of canadians who opposed violence and promoted disarmement and peace);  Member of the Society of Friends (Quaker), and a passionate social activist       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art 2.5 (Summer 1945)  
MEGUINIS Helen   x x     b.1924 - AB d.2007         Founder: Tsuu Tsina Museum in Alberta (1983)          
MEIKLE Ella   x   x Active c.1924     Ceramics                  
MEIKLE Grace M. x   x   Active c.1941-57   d. 1970 - ON Painting                  
MELDRUM Eileen (Aileen)         Active c.1939 b.(?) d.(?)       Studied: Ontario College of Art (1939)            
MELLOR Mrs. A.E.       x Active c.1920-28     Painting: Watercolour             Clara Lander   "old home in Montreal"
MELOCH Suzanne (MELOCHE) x x   x Active c.1961 b.1926                      
MELOIN Hattie (see MELVIN Hattie G)   x   x                          
MELVILLE Clare Gladys   x   x   b.1897 d.(?)                    
MELVIN Grace Wilson           b.1895 - Glasgow, Scotland d.1977 Painting: Watercolour; Design: Graphic Design Scottish Worked: Vancouver School of Art Studied: Glasgow School of Art (at age 15)   Worked under Robert Anning Bell     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Illuminated the Canadian National Books of Remembrance
MELVIN Hattie G   x   x                          
MERASTY Angelique x         b.1924 - Beaver Lake, SK d.1996 - Saskatoon SK Fibres: Textiles; Sculpture: Wood Carving, Wigwas (Birch Bark Biting)     Studied: Wigwas is an ancient Cree art technique, that Merasty was taught by her mother            
MERCHIERS Madeleine       x Active c.1927           Prize Winning Student            
MERCIER Lise x x   x Active c.1941                        
MERCIER Madeleine   x   x Active c.1927-30           Prize Winning Student            
MEREDITH Margaret F   x   x                          
MEREDITH Marjorie (Queenie)     x     b.1895 - Toronto, ON d.1970 - Bolton, ON Painting     Studied: Havergal College (c.1905-1912) Member: HC          
MERRILL Grace   x   x Active c.1910                        
MERRITT C   x   x                          
MERRITT Emily L.     x   Active c.1888     Painting: Watercolour   Vancouver, BC (1888)              
MERRITT Miss H.       x Active c.1913                        
MERS Waldyne De   x   x                          
MERTENS Eleonore     x   Active c.1906-08 b.(?) - Belgium d.(?) - Montreal Painting Belgian, immigrated to Canada 1906                
METCALFE E Belle   x   x                          
MEUNIER Jeannette   x   x Active c.1928     Design: Interior Decoration                  
MEUX Gwendolyn   x   x           Taught: OK, USA; CO, USA              
MEWS Gwendolyn Waldrop           b.1893 - St Johns, NL d.1973 - Boulder, CO Painting (she introduced cubism to NL)     Studied: Mount Allison University; Jubilee Scholar       MMFA   (Gwendolyn Mews and Gwen Meux could very possibly be the same artist- the prounouciation is very similar- and could have be changed.)
MEYER Betty   x   x                          
MEYER Mrs Hoppner x     x Active c.1900         Taught: Conducted a Ladies School              
MIA (Mariette Gauthier; Mariette Poulin; Mia Matthes; Mia et Klaus)           b.1920 - Montreal, QC d. 2010 - Montreal, QC Photography   Taught: fashion design at Ecole Menagere Provincial Studied: Ecole Normale (Mont Laurier, QC) Member: Quebec Provincial Photographers Association (President). Her work was featured at Expo 67   Husband: Klaus Matthes (artist) worked as 'Mia and Klaus'.      
MICHALAK Monica     x         Architecture                  
MICHAUD Josette x   x         Architecture                  
MICKUNAS Irene   x   x Active c.1931-69                   MMFA    
MIDDLETON Janet Holly Blench (Mrs. J.M. Churchill)   x   x   b.1922 d.1989 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Alberta College of Art (HG Glyde and WJ Phillips) (Calgary, AB); Slade school of Art (London, England) Member: ASA; SCPE     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MIDDLETON Margaret   x   x                          
MIGWANS Maime           b.1925 d.2000 Fibres: Basket Making, moccasins (inspired by Anishnabe and Odawa First Nations); Textiles: Quilting (inspired by Anishnabe and Odawa First Nations) First Nations Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, ON             She made moccasins, baskets and quilts inspired by Anishnabe and Odawa First Nations.
MIKPIGA Annie           b.1900 - Povungnituk, QC d.1984 - Povungnituk, QC Printmaking: Engraving; Sculpture First Nations                
MILBURN Marilyn x x   x   b.1930                      
MILLAR Clara Louise (Mrs. T. Bonne Millar) (born Neads) x   x     b.1888 - Bowmanville, ON d.(?) -  Vancouver, BC Painting     Studied: Frederick Ede (Seattle, WA); Toronto Art School/Central Ontario School of Art (GA Reid); A Felix (Paris, France)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MILLEN Mrs S.B.   x   x Active c.1939                        
MILLER Cecilia J   x   x                          
MILLER Margaret L.   x   x                          
MILLER Maria E. Morris           b.1813 - NS d.1875 - Halifax, NS Painting: Botanical; Printmaking   Taught: Drawing School for young ladies Studied: WH Jones and Professor L'Estrange (Halifax, NS)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Best known for her botanical works, and cosidered in the front ranks of Canadian botanical painters
MILLER Marion Huestis     x     b. 1898 - York, ON   Painting British mother, Nova Scotian father ON Studied: Self Taught Member: Women's Art Association (1925) Showed with Group of Seven in 1926. Showed work with artist and friend Bess Houser. Wrote about and showed with older sister Doris Huestis Mills Speirs. Father: Archibald Morrison Huestis (Esquire). Mother:Florence Gooderham Hamilton Huestis. Sister: Doris Huestis Mills Speirs   Hill, Charles C., "The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1995). Traveled to India in 1927 and published a piece in Vol. 9 #97 of the Canadian Forum in October 1928 entitled "A Three Day Camp in India." Wrote for the Canadian Forum 1898.
MILLER Mary Elizabeth Palmer x x   x Active c.1903                        
MILLER Mrs. Henry   x   x Active c.1896                        
MILLER Mrs. M.L.       x Active c.1947     Ceramics                  
MILLER Ruth   x x                            
MILLER Ruth   x   x Active c.1923-33     Drawing: Pastel   Montreal, QC              
MILLETTE Marguerite Therese   x   x Active c.1921                        
MILLS Doris (see SPEIRS)     x                            
MILLS Louisa Mary     x     b.1856 - Bradford, England d.1926 - Saanich, BC Drawing   Taught: The School of Design and Handicraft in Victoria, BC (1913) Studied: Callot and De Laurance (Paris, France); London, England Member: Royal Drawing Society (Elected Member) (London, England); Member of Island Arts and Crafts Club (Victoria, BC)          
MILLSON Florence Hunt     x     b.1891 - Brantford, ON d.(?) - Hamilton, ON Painting       Member: Women's Art Association of Hamilton, ON (Honorary life member)          
MILNE Eleanor (Rose Eleanor Milne)           b.1925 - St John, NB   Painting: Watercolour; Sculpture: Stained Glass and Wood carving     Studied: McGill (studied anatomy in 1946); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Arthur Lismer, Gordon Webber, Jacques de Tonnancour); Ecole des Beaux-arts (Sylvia Daoust) (Montreal, QC) Member: SSC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MILNE Margaret E       x   b.1920   Painting     Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (Lemoine FitzGerald and Edith Carter) Member: WAA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
MINTO Mary Countess of (born Mary Caroline Grey) x     x               Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada 1904 Exhibition       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Mary Caroline Grey, Countess Minto
MIREY Marlene     x         Architecture                  
MISCHPETER Meta E.   x   x                          
MITCHELL Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1935     Painting: Flower Painting                  
MITCHELL Ida   x   x                          
MITCHELL Janet           b.1912 - Medicine Hat, AB d.1998 - Calgary, AB Painting: Watercolour     Studied: self taught; Banff School of Fine Arts (summer courses with Gordon Smith); Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (Calgary, AB) Member: ARCA; Alberta Society of Artists; Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MITCHELL Marjorie Chambers     x     b.1884 - Draycott, Glouchester, England d.1958 - Winnipeg, MB Painting British. Immigrated to Canada (Montreal and Boissevain, QC) in 1912                
MITCHELL Miss x   x         Architecture                  
MITCHELL Molly Greene       x   b.1919 d.2000 Painting: Watercolour     Studied: OCA (Franklin Carmichael, JW Beatty and Charles Comfort) Member: CSPWC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
MITCHELL Winifred Laura   x   x Active c.1917                        
MOHR Ingeborg           b.1921 - Innsbruck, Austria d.2004 Fibres: Textiles, Batik; Painting: Batik Austrian. Immigrated to Canada in 1954. SK; Toronto, ON   Member: RCA          
MOIR Lily Maitland   x   x                          
MOIR Lydia x   x   Active c.1847-1941 b.(?) - Quebec City, QC d.(?) - Los Angeles, CA, USA       Studied: Boston School of Art (?)            
MOLSON Catherine D   x   x Active c.1921                        
MONGRAIN Yvette       x   b.1929 - QC   Yard Artist   St-Stanislass, Champlain County, QC Studied: Self-Taught     1 of 13 children   McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Grosbois, Louise de "Les patenteux du Quebec" (Montreal: Editions Parti pris, 1978)  
MONK Benediera (Benedicta Isobel; Mrs. R.S. Hewton)   x x     b.1894 d.(?) Painting   Exhibited: Montreal, QC              
MONTALBA Miss   x   x                          
MONTCASTLE Clara (see MOUNTCASTLE Clara)   x   x                          
MONTEFIORE Nancy Sebag   x   x Active c.1920                        
MONTGOMERY Gladys Eleanor   x   x       Ceramics: Pottery               Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art  2.5 (Summer 1945), 188. (in photo credits)  
MONTGOMERY L. M. (Lucy Maud MacDonald Montgomery)     x     b.1874 - Clifton, NL d.1942 - Toronto, ON Photography   Worked: Contributed to the Daily Echo in Halifax (1902) (offering tips for new photographers)             Author of Anne of Green Gables. Won a national photography competition in 1931 from Kodak. Contributed to the Daily Echo in Halifax (1902) (offering tips for new photographers)
MONTIGNY-GIGUERE E. Louise de           b.1878 - La Prairie, QC d.1969 Sculpture     Studied: Art Association of Montreal; Conseil des Arts (Montreal); Ecole des Beaux Arts (Montreal)            
MONTIGNY-LAFONTAINE Marguerite de (Mme Georges Lafontaine)           b.1890 - Montreal, QC d.1982 Drawing; Painting; Sculpture   Taught: anatomy and decorative arts              
MONTIZAMBERT Béatrice B. x x x     b.1874 - Quebec, QC d.(?) Painting: miniature portraits on ivory     Studied: Dresden; Berlin; Munich; London; France; New York Member: National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. Exhibited: Women's Art Society of Montreal, QC (1920)   Daughter of very affluent parents      
MONTPELLIER Patricia x     x Active c.1973                   NGC    
MOODIE Campbelline R   x   x                          
MOODIE Geraldine (born Fitzgibbon)           b.1854 - Ottawa, ON d.1945 - AB Photography (North West Mounted police and the wildflowers of the area. She was the first woman to photograph the Inuit)                  
MOODIE Marion     x                            
MOODIE Susanna (born Susanna Strickland) x         b.1803 - Bungay, Sufflk, England d.1885 - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Botanical Drawings British. Immigrated to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband         Sister: Catherine Parr Traill   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Wrote about pioneer life in canada, and made botanical drawings.
MOPPETT Carroll May Lindoe   x   x Active c.1948                        
MOORE Annie E x x   x Active c.1897                   MMFA    
MORE Marion     x         Architecture                  
MOREAU Blanche       x Active c.1881                        
MOREAU Pauline   x   x Active c.1930                        
MORGAN Marion L.     x   Active c.1875 b.(?) - Minneapolis, MN, USA d.(?) - Queen Charlotte Islands, BC Printmaking: Linoleum Block prints, woodblock and monoprints     Studied: Self taught            
MORGAN Mary Patricia     x         Architecture                  
MORGAN Mary Vernon   x   x                          
MORIN Suzanne       x Active c.1934                        
MORIN Victorine     x         Architecture                  
MORRELL Charlotte (see SCHREIBER Charlotte)   x   x   b.1834 d.1922                    
MORRIER Emma       x                          
MORRIS Annie   x   x                          
MORRIS Carolyn L.   x   x                          
MORRIS Christiana (Mâli Christianne Paul Mollise; Chritsty Ann; Christina; Christianne)           b.1804 - Stewiacke, NS d.1886 - Newport Station, NS Fibres: Moccasin Making and Traditional Micmac Craft First Nations (lived Indian Reserve near Ship Harbour, NS) NS             Gave Queen Victoria Moccasins, whereupon she was given land to raise livestock and grow vegetables for profit.
MORRIS Jemima       x   b. 1918   Fibres First Nations (Cree)           CHIN    
MORRIS Jenny x x   x                          
MORRIS Kathleen Moir           b.1893 - Montreal, QC d.1986 - Rawdon, QC Painting Anglophone   Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Summer Sketching Trips with Maurice Cullen Member: BHG (Associated); RCA (Elected in 1929); CGA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MORRISEY Darrell       x Active c.1921                   MMFA    
MORRISON Irene Elaine x x x   Active c.1906 b.(?) - Jefferson, OK, USA   Painting Immigrated to Montreal in 1932 Montreal, QC Studied: Sir George Williams; Ontario College of Art; Vancouver College of Art            
MORRISON Julia (Miss?)   x   x Active c.1910     Ceramics                  
MORRISON Miss   x   x                          
MORRISON Olivia   x   x                          
MORROW Trelle A.     x         Architecture                  
MORSE Susan Mary (Mrs. Charles Morse)           b.1862 - St John, NB d.1939 - Ottawa, ON Painting     Studied: Halifax Art School (Victoria School of Art and Design); Art Student's League (New York); Franklin Brownell (Ottawa, ON)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MORTIMER Florence Maude (Mrs. Percy Mortimer)   x x     b.1879 - Wakkerstroon, South Africa d.1959 - Edmonton, AB Painting: Watercolour British South African. Immigrated to Canada in 1926 Taught: Edmonton, AB (1926) (first art teacher)   Member: Edmonton Art Club; Alberta Society of Artists          
MORTON Edith (see POWER Edith) x x   x   b.1854 d.1909                    
MORTON Mrs. Richard     x     b.1873   Painting   Peterborough, ON             A very resourceful painter and would often paint with a rag tied to the end of a matchstick
MOSCOVITCH Edna   x   x                          
MOSS Rosanne     x         Architecture                  
MOTT Laura Edna     x   Active c.1930     Painting: Watercolour                  
MOUAT Dorothy (see ASPELL)     x                            
MOUNT Rita           b.1888 - Montreal, QC d.1967 - Montreal, QC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner) (Montreal, QC); Academie Delecluse (Paris, France); Cercle International des beaux-arts (Paris, France); Art Students League (New York) Member: RCA (1938)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MOUNT Virginie       x Active c.1925                        
MOUNTCASTLE Clara H. (Caris Sima) x x x     b.1837 - Clinton, Upper Canada d.1908 - Clinton, Upper Canada Painting British parents who settled in Canada in 1832     Exhibited: RCA         Also an author/poet she had poems published in Saturday Night (1889-1898).
MOWAT Grace Helen           b.1875 - St Andrews, NB d.1964 - St Andrews, NB Painting; Ceramics: Pottery; Fibres: Textiles     Studied: Women's Art School at the Cooper Union (New York, NY) Member: Charlotte County Cottage Crafts (Founder) (NB); Music, Art and Drama Society (Founder) (1934)       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/m/mowat_grace.htm
MOWATT Mlle J.H.       x Active c.1925                        
MUELEN Emiel (see VAN DER MUELEN Emiel) x x   x                          
MUIR Henrietta (see EDWARDS Henrietta)   x   x   b.1849 d.(?)                    
MULCASTER Wynona Croft         Active c.1985 b.1915 - Prince Albert, SK   Painting     Studied: Ernest Lindner; Banff School of Fine Arts (AY Jackson and HG Glyde); AAM (Arthur Lismer) Member: CSEA; FCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MULHOLLAND A.J.   x   x                          
MULLALLY Mary E x x   x                          
MULLER Miss C       x Active c.1887                        
MULOCK Amy E   x   x Active c.1930                   MMFA    
MULROONEY Belinda Carbonneau     x         Architecture                  
MUNDAY Luta           b.1887 d.(?) Photography; Drawing: contributed illustrations and writing to a handful of publications
(Chatelaine, Echos and National Review) - Published the book  "A Mounty's
Wife: Being the Life Story of One Attached to the Force, but Not of It."
Born in Canada to English immigrants. SK       Husband:  Royal Canadian Northwest Mounted Police.     Contributed illustrations and writing to a handful of publications : Chatelaine, Echos and National Review. Published the book  "A Mounty's Wife: Being the Life Story of One Attached to the Force, but Not of It."
MUNDY Miss       x Active c.1910                        
MUNDY Sarah Annis x x   x                          
MUNN Adelaide   x   x Active c.1936                   MMFA    
MUNN Kathleen Jean           b.1887 - Toronto, ON d.1974 - Toronto, ON Painting     Studied: RCA (F McGillivray Knowles) (1904-1907 Toronto, ON); Art Student's League (New York); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Member: HC. Exhibited: OSA; RCA; Canadian National Exhibition       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MUNRO M Belle   x   x Active c.1910                        
MUNRO Miss x x   x                          
MUNRO Sarah Jean (see MACLEAN)                                  
MUNRO Jean Elizabeth (born Cockburn; Mrs. Gordon Munro)   x x     b.1869 - Orillia, ON d.1945 Painting lived in France, returned to Canada in 1926 (Montreal, QC)   Studied: OSA (Robert Holmes, GA Reid); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Lucien Simon) (Paris, France) Member: Societe des Artistes Independants (Paris, France); Women's International Art Society. Exhibited: RCA; OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
MUNRO Zoë Block x     x   b.1898   not specified, but Crafts-oriented Russian                
MUNTZ B.W.   x   x                          
MUNTZ Elizabeth (Betty) W   x   x                          
MUNTZ Laura Adeline (see LYALL)           b.1860 d.1930                    
MURPHY Anna (see JAMESON)     x                            
MURPHY Cecil Tremayne  (see BULLER Cecil) x         b.1886 d.1973                    
MURPHY Florence       x                          
MURRAY Charlotte x   x         Architecture                  
MURRAY Elizabeth     x         Architecture                  
MURRAY Greta P.   x   x Active c.1972                   MMFA, CHIN (listed as male)    
MURRAY-STEELE Joan       x                     CHIN   in conversation with Catherine Wyle (see Wyle file)
MURRAY WEBER Kay (Kathleen)       x Active c.2002 b.1919   Printmaking             CHIN    
MUSGRAVE Vera Young       x             Studied: Winnipeg School of Art            
MUYSSON Hertha       x   b.1898 d.1984 Painting; Fibres: Textiles, Dress Making   Guelph, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); MacGregor John M., "The Imaginary Portrait: The Work of Hertha Muyson" (Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1974);  Kobayashi, Terry, "Folk Treasures of Historic Ontario" (Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1985)  
MYER Betty       x Active c.1939                        
MYLES Beatrice (see BANTING Beatrice)   x   x   b.1911 d.1998                    
MYRAN Freda   x   x                          
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NACTIER Mrs.       x               Member: Woman's Art Association (Committee member)          
NAEYER Célestine de (see HERRY)     x                            
NANOGAK Agnes (Nanugak; Agnes Goose)           b.1925 - Baillie Islands, NWT d.2001 - Holman, NWT Drawing; Printmaking; Sculpture First Nations                
NAPARTUK Mina           b.1913 - Kuujjuarapik, QC d.2001 - Umiujaq, QC Fibres: Textiles, wallhangings called  'akinnamiutak' where she combined text and images, Dollmaking, Made Seal Skin Boots First Nations. QC             Taught workshops to women on Dollmaking and making seal skin boots
NAPIER Louisa N x x   x Active c.1923                   MMFA    
NAPIER-SMITH Constance (see SMITH Constance) x x   x                          
NASH Berenice K.   x   x                          
NATISVAAR (Netisvarr)           b.1919 - NU d.1962 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Printmaking First Nations               Only 2 of her prints published (she died 2 years after the first Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection
NAYOMIE       x c.1961 (date of a catalogue, unsure of production date) Port Harrison     Inuit                
NEALE W.O. x x   x                          
NEEDHAM Jane     x   Active c.1867     Painting   BC              
NEEL Ellen May (born Newman; Kakaso'las; Ellen-Ah)           b.1916 - Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, BC d.1966 Sculpture: Wood Carving First Nations Taught: North Vancouver Squamish College sponsored a course taught by Ellen May Neel on Totem carving (1949)       Grandfather: Charlie James of Alert Bay (Kwakuitl Tribe)(was the totem carver)      
NEIL Frances Barbara   x x   Active c.1909 b.(?) - Wolverhampton, England   Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1918.               Received Governor General's Medal in 1933
NELLES Wanda x     x       Fibres: Weaving   ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
NELSON Cecilia   x   x Active c.1924     Design: Industrial Designer                  
NELSON Dorothea S.   x   x                          
NELSON Marion Hope (see HOOKER Marion)   x x     b.1866 - Richmond, VA, USA d.1946 - St Catherines, ON Painting: Oil                  
NELSON Norma     x         Architecture                  
NELSON W.B.   x   x                          
NEMETH Leslie, Architecture     x         Architecture                  
NÉRON Gertrude       x   b.1918   Painting; Drawing     Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Jean Paul Lemieux and Jean Daillare) (Quebec City, QC); Ecole des art et Techniques; Ecole du Louvre (Paris, France)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
NESS Jean (see FINDLAY)           b.1901 d.(?)       Studied: Monument National (Edmond Dyonnet and JY Johnstone)(Montreal, QC); Columbia University (Charles Martin) (New York, NY)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
NEWELL Beatrice   x   x                          
NEWMAN Sheila x x   x                          
NEWTON Alison Houston (born Lockerbie)           b.1890 - Edinburgh, Scotland d.1967 - Toronto, ON Painting:Watercolour; Printmaking: Engraving Scottish, winnipeg MB or 30 years Winnipeg, MB Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (David Wallace, Alex Musgrove and Franz Johnston, WJ Phillips) Member: AMSA; CSPWC; MSA; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
NEWTON Lilias Torrance           b.1896 - Montreal, QC d.1980 - Cowansville, QC Painting Anglophone   Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Alfred Wolmark (London); Alexandre Jacovleff (Paris, France) Member: BHG; CGP; ARCA; RCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
NICHOLS Edith x x   x                          
NICHOLS Rhoda Holmes x     x Active c.1896     Painting                  
NICHOLSON Margaret   x   x                          
NICHOLSON Margaret Eunice   x   x                          
NICHOLSON Miss.   x   x                          
NICOL Margaret Pegi (see MACLEOD Pegi Nicol)                                  
NICOLL Marion Florence S. (born Mackay)           b.1909 - Calgary, AB d.1985 - Calgary, AB Painting; Jewellery Making   Taught: Banff School of Fine Arts (Arts Faculty) (1947) Studied: Ontario College of Art (JEH MacDonald); Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (AC Leighton in 1929-32) (Calgary, AB); London; Banff, AB; Emma Lake, SK Member: ARCA; ASA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
NILSSON Ebba x   x         Architecture                  
NISBET Florence Alma x     x   b.1913 d.1998 Painting     Studied: Schneider School of Fine Arts (Actinolite, Ontario)       CHIN, AGO Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
NIXON Nellie       x Active c.1885           Prize Winning Student in Ontario            
NOICE Yvonne   x   x                          
NOLIN Alice           b.1896 - Sorel, QC d.1967 - Montreal, QC Sculpture   Taught: Ecole des Beaux Arts et Metiers au Monument National (1936-1946)              
NOMBERG Monica     x         Architecture                  
NORRIS Gwendolyn (see Fuller Gwendolyn) x x   x   b.1896 d.(?)                    
NOTMAN Mlle.       x               Member: Woman's Art Association (Committee Member)          
NOTT Mina   x   x                          
NOVALINGA Akenesie           b.1910 - Puvirnituq, QC d.1987 - Puvirnituq, QC Drawing; Printmaking; Fibres: Textiles First Nations               Participated in a National Film Board film about members of the Puvirnituq Cooperative in 1961 with her husband Johnny Pov
NOWELL Beatrice   x   x Active c.1923     Ceramics                  
NUSPL Tina x   x         Architecture                  
NUTT Elizabeth Styring           b.1870 - Isle of Man, England d.1946 Painting British Taught: Principal of the Victoria School of Art (1919-1943) (she changed the name to the Nova Scotia College of Art). Taught: AH Robinson Studied: Sheffield School of Art (JT Cook and Henry Archer) (England); Sorbonne (Arthur Lismer and FH Varley) (Paris, France); England; Paris; Florence Member: ARCA; NSSA         When Arthur Lismer left the Victoria School of Art in Halifax he recommended Elizabeth Nutt as his replacement - she became the principal of the school
NUTTER Mlle F.D.       x Active c.1904     Painting                  
NUTTING Ellen x     x                          
O                                  
OBOMSAWIN, Alanis x b.1932 Filmmaking First Nations
O'BRIEN Mary Margaret       x   b.1905   Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   Cape Broyle, NL           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Lynch, Coleen,"The Fabric of Their Lives, Hooked and Poked Mats of Newfoundland and Labrador." (St. John’s NL: Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery, 1980)  
O'BRIEN Patricia Dorothy Gunn (Paddy)   x   x Active c.1929                        
O'BRIEN Tiuu Tammist     x         Architecture                  
O'CONNOR Freda M.     x         Architecture                  
O'DONNELL Marguerite (see SCOTT Marguerite)   x   x                          
O'GORMAN Mabel   x   x Active c.1936                   MMFA    
O'REILLY Caroline Trutch     x   Active c.1863 b.(?) - England   Singer           Husband: Peter O'Reilly (married 1863)      
O'REILLY Kathleen           b.1867 - Victoria, BC d.1945 - Victoria, BC Painting; Drawing; Fibres: Embroidery     Studied: Angela College (Victoria); Lady Murray's School (Kensington, London, England)           Had a romance with Captain Robert Scott (Antarctic Explorer)
O'SULLIVAN Margaret   x   x                          
OAKLEY Brigid Marlin x x   x                          
OAKLEY Mrs V       x                     Manitoba crafts museum    
OBERLANDER Cornelia Hahn     x         Architecture                  
OBERNE Marjorie Borden       x Active c.1911     Painting             CHIN, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
ODELL Miss       x Active c.1883     Painting: Watercolour                  
ODJIG Daphne (Mrs. Chester Beavon)           b.1919 - Wikwemikong, Manitoulin Island, ON   Drawing: pastel, pen and ink; Collage; Painting: Acrylic; Printmaking First Nations     Member: RCA (Elected 1989)         Appointed to the Order of Canada in 1987
OGDEN Ethyl       x Active c.1889-1938     Painting: Porcelain Painting, China Painting     Studied: Mount Allison Ladie's College (Sackville, NB)         http://www.mta.ca/owens/publications/posters/2011/ogdens.php Exhibition at Owens Art Gallery in 2011 on Ethel and Greta Ogden's Porcelain Paintings
OGDEN Fannie G x x   x Active c.1921                   MMFA    
OGDEN Greta       x Active c.1889-1938     Painting: Porcelain Painting, China Painting     Studied: Mount Allison Ladie's College (Sackville, NB)         http://www.mta.ca/owens/publications/posters/2011/ogdens.php Exhibition at Owens Art Gallery in 2011 on Ethel and Greta Ogden's Porcelain Paintings
OGILVIE Lilly   x   x                          
OGILVIE Willa Margaret   x   x Active c.1933                        
OGILVY Isabella Ewan Laurie   x   x   b.1863 d.(?)                    
OGILVY Mrs John   x   x Active c.1936                   CHIN, MMFA    
OHE Dorothy Katie Von Der   x   x Active c.1937                        
OILLE Ethel Lucille (Mrs. Kenneth Wells)   x   x   b.1912 d.1997 Painting; Drawing: Book Illustration     Studied: OCA (Emanuel Hahn); Royal College of Art (London, England) Member: CSGA     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
OKLAGA Françoise (Katalik; Qattalik; Oklooga)           b.1924 - Coral Harbour, NU d.1991 - Baker Lake, NU Drawing First Nations.     Member:  Baker Lake Artist (Work shown in the annual Baker Lake print collection)          
OMANSKY Helen   x   x                          
ONDAATJE Betty Jane Kimbark Jones x x   x Active c.1928                        
OONARK Jessie (Jesse Oonark; Una; Unaaq; Seekanik)           b.1906 - Baker Lake, NU d.1985 - Baker Lake, NU Drawing; Printmaking; Fibres: Textiles First Nations     Member: RCA (1975); Order of Canada (1984)          
ORR Alvretta (Retta) Laura (born McConnell)     x     b.1854 d.1919 Painting   MB; SK; Red Deer, AB; New Westminster, BC Studied: Ross Reverdy Osgoode (1867-1945)           In 1908 she was working at a hospital in New Westminster BC
ORTWEIN Elke x   x         Architecture                  
OSBORNE Rosalynde Fuller   x x   Active c.1927-28   d.1942 - Hamilton, ON Sculpture: Marionettes and dolls; Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Hamilton School of Art; New York School of Fine and Applied Design Member: Women's Art Association          
OSBORNE Sophie May       x                     Manitoba Crafts Museum    
OSHUITOQ Anirnik (Annick; Ainee; Anergna; Arnirnik; Anernik; Anergna Anargnak; Arnick)           b.1902 - Kimmirut, NU d.1983 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Printmaking; Fibres: Textiles First Nations                
OSHUITOQ Ningeeuga (Ningeeyougot Oshweetuk; Ningeogat; Ningeoga; Ningeuga)           b.1918 - Amadjuak, NU d.1980 - Cape Dorset, NU Printmaking; Sculpture First Nations.     Contributed to Cape Dorset Graphics from 1966-1980   Mother: Anirnik Oshuitoq (artist)      
OSITHE Sister Mary (Sister Mary Osithe Labossière; Elizabeth Labossière) x         b.1867 - Sorel, QC d.1941 - Victoria, BC Architecture; Painting: China painting; Drawing: Calligraphy; Photography     Studied: Malboro, MA, USA            
OSLER Clara du Bois x x   x                          
OSTOLOSKY Elizabeth E. x   x         Architecture                  
OTBO Kay     x         Architecture                  
OUTRAM Olga Bell       x Active c.1936     Painting                  
OVEREND Norma   x   x                          
OWENS Nina May           b.1869 - Bolton, QC d.1959 Painting     Studied: Knowlton Academy Exhibited: RCA (1918)          
OWENS Mrs.   x   x                          
OXBOROUGH Dorothy Marie (Mrs H. Johnson) x     x Active c.1979 b.1922   Painting     Studied: Vancouver School of Art; Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (Calgary, AB) Member: NSSA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
OZDOWSKI Joanna Helena     x         Architecture                  
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PAGE P.K. (Patricia Katheleen Page, P.K. Irwin, Mrs W. Arthur Irwin)       x   b. 1916 d. 2010 Painting; Drawing; Printmaking             CHIN, MMFA, Edmonton Art Gallery MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio
PAGET Maude Dekirkby (born Lumb)     x     b.1874 - Penrith, England d.1967 - Victoria, BC Painting: miniature; Commercial artist for the T Eaton Company British. Immigrated to Canada at 17. Winnipeg, MB; Victoria, BC (where she lived for 47 years)              
PAGNUELO Françoise   x x     b.1918 - Westmount, QC d.1957 - Westmount, QC Painting     Studied: Les Soeurs de la Congregation Notre-Dame; School of the Montreal Musuem of Fine Arts; Art Association of Montreal; Lilias Torrance Newton; Edwin Holgate; TR MacDonald; Harold Beament; Adam Sheriff Scott            
PALFREEMAN Elizabeth Patricia MAry   x   x Active c.1929                        
PALIN Ethel   x   x Active c.1896     Painting                 "Mrs. Palin has received her bronze medal awarded by the Columbian Exposition for the painting of a dog."
PALM Ottillie E   x   x   b.1878 d.1961                    
PALMER Allison (Alison?)       x Active c.1948                   MAC (under PALMER, Alison)    
PALMER Mary (see MILLER Mary)   x   x                          
PALMER Miriam       x Active c.1928           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
PALYNCHUK Anne   x   x       Ceramics: experimented with glazes and firing temperatures     Studied: Luke Lindoe (he called her "good old bone-headed Anne Palynchuk")            
PAMIU Siasi Atitu (Siasi Atiituk; Atitu)           b.1896 - Ivujivik, QC d.1983 - Povungnituk QC Printmaking First Nations.         Husband: Adam Amamartua (Camp Leader)      
PANET Louise-Amélie (Panet-Berczy)           b.1789 - Quebec, QC d.1862 - Sainte Melanie, QC Painting     Studied: Dames de la Congregation (Montreal, QC)     Husband: William Bent Berczy (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Wrote poetry, and hosted salons with elite literarary figures in Sainte Mélanie (QC). She was seen as a very witty and "generally enchanting" woman
PANGMAN Mabel x x   x                          
PANGON Peggy Ekagina x         b.1919 - Brown Sound, NU d.1992 - Kugluktuk, NU Sculpture First Nations                
PANILUK   x   x Active c.1935                        
PANTON Verman x   x         Architecture                  
PAPINEAU Renee L Westcott   x   x                          
PAPPIDLUK Flossie     x     b.1916 - Holman Island, NWT   Printmaking First Nations.     Exhibited: MMFA (Montreal, QC) (1980)          
PAQUETTE Joy   x   x Active c.1922                        
PAQUETTE Marguerite (see FAINMEL Marguerite)   x   x Active c.1910                        
PAQUIN Yvette       x Active c.1925           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures            
PARADIS Andrée     x         Architecture                  
PARE Alice O   x   x                          
PARE Anne   x   x Active c.1938                        
PARENT Anne               Architecture                  
PARENT Louise   x   x Active c.1930                        
PARENT Mimi x   x     b.1924 - Montreal, QC d.2005 - Switzerland Drawing; Painting: Tableaux-Objects   Montreal, QC; Paris, France Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts (Alfred Pellan) (Montreal, QC) Associated with 'Prisme d'Yeux' (Montreal, QC) Patron: André Breton (France) Husband: Jean Benoît (sculptor)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PARK Margaret   x   x                          
PARKER Jessie Cecilia Alward   x   x   b.1891 d.(?)                    
PARKER Jessie (Possibly Jessie Cecilia Parker?)       x Active c.1933                   MMFA (has file for Jessie Parker-Maretta)   Parker-Maretta Jessie, or Jessie Cecilia Parker? Jessie C., born 1891, worked in Manitoba but exhibited in Montreal (the article is AAM Spring Exhibition).
PARLOW Maida Doris (see FRENCH)   x x     b.1891 d.1977                    
PARR Eleeshushe (Elishusee; Ilisusi)           b.1896 d.1975 - Cape Dorset, NU Printmaking; Design: Graphic Arts   Cape Dorset, NU (lived a nomadic lifestyle with her husband)   Contributed to Cape Dorset Graphics annual collection from 1966-1970   Husband: Parr (artist, printmaker)      
PARRISH Clara Weaver   x   x Active c.1925                        
PARSONS Helen (see SHEPHERD Helen) x x   x   b.1923 d.2008                    
PARSONS Mary       x             Studied: Winnipeg School of Art            
PASHAL Mlle M       x Active c.1924     Ceramics   Winnipeg, MB   Exhibited: CHG show     Manitoba Crafts Museum (?)    
PATKAU Patricia     x         Architecture                  
PATERSON Grace (Grace Patterson; Grace Paterson White)     x     b.1887 - ON   Painting   Hamilton, ON Studied: Hamilton Art School; Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA); Won several scholarships which enabled her to travel and study in europe.            
PATERSON Mary   x   x                          
PATERSON Mrs L   x   x                          
PATON Emily J Merserve       x   b.1839 d.1908 Painting: Oil               "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
PATON J.B.   x   x                          
PATRIC Ruth MacPherson (Pseudonym "Patric")   x x     b.1897 d.(?) - Vancouver, BC Painting: Casein Gouache; Printmaking   Winnipeg, MB; Vancouver, BC (1940) Studied: Vancouver School of Art           Worked almost exclusively in casein gouache painting.
PATRICIA Princess of Connaught   x   x   b.1886 d.1974                    
PATRICK Martha A   x   x                          
PATRICK Miss   x   x                          
PATRICK N. Wilson   x   x                          
PATTERSON Edith Lalande Ravenshaw   x   x   b.1876 - East Sheen, Surrey, England d.(?)   British                
PATTERSON Mrs.       x                         Is this Edith? Could also be Mrs. Dickson Patterson -- often just Mrs. Patterson.
PATTERSON Sarah     x         Architecture                  
PATTISON Miss   x   x                          
PATTULO Mary Frances   x   x                          
PAUL Louise (Lou)   x   x   b.(?) d.1961 Painting; Sculpture             CHIN, MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews, has document in P file
PAUL Mary Christianne (Christina, Christy Paul. see MORRIS)     x                            
PAULIN-DRISCOLL Alma     x         Architecture                  
PAUNICHEA (Paunichiak)           b.1920 d.1968 - Cape Dorset, NU Sculpture; Drawing First Nations. Cape Dorset, NU   (Contributed to Cape Dorset Graphics from 1966-1969)   Father: Kiakshuk (printmaker, artist)      
PAVELIC Myfawny Spencer Campbell           b.1916 - Victoria, BC d.2007 - Victoria, BC Painting: portrait (Painted portraits of Yehudi Menuhin, Katharine Hepburn, Pierre Trudeau, Queen Elizabeth. )   Lived: New York, NY - for a time, she lived in the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan. Studied: self-taught Member: ARCA; RCA Emily Carr was a mentor     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Received Order of Canada 1984
PAVLYCHENKO Larisa x x   x                          
PAWSON Ruth May x     x   b.1908 d.1994 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Emma Lake Artists' Workshops (Gordon Snelgrove and Augustus Kenderdine) (Emma Lake, SK); Banff School of Fine Arts (AY Jackson) Member: FCA     CHIN, Arts Branch, MAC, Artexte Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). document in P file
PAYETTE Berthe       x Active c.1927           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
PAYNE Frances Emily Travers   x   x   b.1864 d.1922                    
PAYNE-JOHNSON Jeanne   x   x   b.1887 d.1958                    
PAYZANT Florence       x                       Gemey, Kelly "Backgrounds: Ten Nova Scotian Women Artists" (Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1984)  
PEACE Janet   x   x                          
PEARSON Freda Canellakos   x   x Active c.1902                        
PECK Alice (born Skelton; Mrs. James Peck)           b.1855 - Montreal, QC d.1943 - Montreal, QC Fibres: Bookbinding, Embroidery, Textiles; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: Boarding school in England (age 14) Member: CHG (Co founder 1905); Home Art and Handicrafts Committee (1896 with Mary May Phillips); WAAC (Montreal)   Husband: James Peck (businessman, married: 1878)   McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). In 1896 Peck and Mary May Phillips established the Home Arts and Handicrafts Committee to exhibit and sell Canadian crafts under the auspices of the Montreal branch of the Women’s Art Association of Canada (WAAC).  Travelled through Europe before marrying
PECK Mrs.       x               Member: Woman's Art Association (Committee member)          
PECK Pamela Merrill x x   x                          
PÉDERY-HUNT Dora de (see HUNT Dora)   x x     b.1913 - Budapest, Hungary d.2008 - Toronto, ON Fibres: Textiles; Sculpture: wood, metal, clay, bronze and plastic. Hungarian. Immigrated to Canada in 1948.   Studied: Royal School for Applied Art (Budapest 1937-43) and received numerous prizes and scholarships during her studies Member: RCA (1956); Sculptor's Society of Canada; Officer of the Order of Canada         She made coins (notably $100 gold 'Olympic' coin and $100 gold 'Peace' coin), and designed graphics and even had her work reproduced by the Canadian Post Card Company.
PEEL Clara       x Active c.1888     Sculpture                  
PEEL Mildred (Lady Ross)   x x     b.1856 - London, ON d.1920 Sculpture; Painting     Studied: Under her father, John Robert Peel     Father: John Robert Peel (art teacher)     In 1936 a portrait of her husband Sir George W Ross was discovered under a portrait of Laura Secord by X-ray
PELLETIER Denise   x   x                          
PEMBERTON Sophie (Sophia T. Deane-Drummond)           b.1869 - Victoria, BC d.1959 - Oak Bay, BC Painting     Studied: Slade School of Art (1892-96); South Kensington School of Art (London, England); Academie Julian (JP Laurens and Benjamin Constant) (Paris 1897) Member: ARCA          
PEMBERTON SMITH Freda (Frederica Augusta Pemberton Smith. see SMITH)           b.1902 d.1991 Painting     Studied: Monument National (Edmon Dyonnet) (Montreal, QC); Ecole des Beaux Arts (Montreal, QC); Slade School of Art (Franklin White) (London, England) CSPWC, FCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PENFOLD Katherine S. x x x   Active c.1892         Montreal, QC              
PENMAN Edith x x   x Active c.1929                        
PENNINGTON M.J.   x   x                          
PENNY Sheila L.     x         Architecture                  
PENTLAND Marjorie (Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland; born Lady Marjorie Adeline Hamilton-Gordon, Countess of Aberdeen)     x   Active c.1880-1970     Drawing Scottish Ottawa, ON; England       Mother: Lady Aberdeen (who founded Canada Council for Women with Henrietta Muir Edwards)     Marjorie Pentland was also involved in periodicals, founding Wee Willie Winky (named after a Scottish nursery rhyme) as a child in Canada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Sinclair,_Baroness_Pentland
PENTZ Mary     x         Architecture                  
PEPPER Kathleen (see DALY Kathleen)   x   x   b.1898 d.1994                    
PERATROVICH Selina           b.1890 - Queen Charlotte Islands, BC d.1984 Fibres: Basket Making First Nations. Howkan AK, USA; Old Massett, BC; (would travel to Haida Gwaii to gather materials for the year)       Father: George Harris      
PERCIVAL Gertrude   x x   Active c.1923-24                   MMFA    
PERCIVAL Phyllis M. Reynolds x x x   Active c.1923-24   Painting                    
PERDRIAU Ethel S   x   x                          
PEREHUDOFF Dorothy (see KNOWLES Dorothy)   x   x Active c.1927                        
PERKS Christine Poznanska Outerbridge           b.1935                      
PERRAULT Suzanne Parent   x   x Active c.1924                        
PERRIN Phyllis M x     x Active c.1936         Montreal, QC              
PERRON Angele       x Active c.1880     Fibres: Textiles, Coverlet Making   Les-Eboulement-en-Haut, QC         NGC Burnham, Harold B., "Keep Me Warm One Night: Early Handweaving in Eastern Canada" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Royal Ontario Museum, 1972)  
PERRY Elenor   x   x Active c.1925     Ceramics                  
PERRY Leila H   x   x                          
PERRY-HAMILTON Ruth   x   x                          
PERVOUCHKINE Nathalie       x                         Exhibition run by HEC?
PETAULASSIE Sheouak           b.1923 - Cape Dorset, NU d.1961 - Itilliarjuk Camp, NU Printmaking First Nations     West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative; had work in Cape Dorset Print Collections in 1960 and 1961          
PETCHEY Winifred (see MARSH Winifred)   x   x                          
PETERKIN Ruby Gordon x     x   b.1887 d.1961 Photographer                 Nurse during Great War; biblio http://arbeiterring.com/books/detail/framing-identity/
PETERS Susan M   x   x                          
PETERSON Lillian Isabel (see HINGSTON)     x                            
PETERSON Margaret (Mrs. Howard O'Hagan) also PETERSEN           b.1902 - Seattle, WA, USA d. 1997 - Victoria, BC Painting Travelled to Mexico and Central America. Taught: University of California (for 22 years); Cowichan Bay, BC Studied: University of California (Hans Hofmann and Worth Ryder); Berkeley (Vaclav Vytlacil and Andre Lhote) (Paris, France)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Victoria B.C.: "qui, à l'heure actuelle, est la seule artiste canadienne de marque tirant son inspiration de l'Indigène."
PETRIK Nathalie   x   x Active c.1950                   NGC, AGO, MMFA    
PETRUCCI Jean M. x   x         Architecture                  
PFEIFER Bodo   x   x Active c.1936                        
PFLUG Christiane Sybille Schutt   x   x Active b.1936-72                        
PHELPS Helen Watson   x   x   b.1859 d.1944                    
PHILLIPS Mary M. (May)           b.1856 - Montreal, QC d.1937 - Montreal, QC Painting: Watercolour; Drawing: Manuscript Illumination, Pastel       Member: Women's Art Association (founder of Montreal Branch)          
PICARD Francoise     x     b.1923 - QC c.1923 Painting     Studied: Ecole des Beaux-Arts (René Chicoine); Montreal Art Association (Goodridge Roberts and Arthur Lismer); Chouinard's Art Institute (Dan Lutz, L. Burton and Mary Wirten) (Los Angeles, CA); Paris (Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger)            
PICHÉ-WHISSELL Aline-Marie Blanche Marguerite x   x   Active c.1919 b.(?) - Trois-Rivieres, QC   Painting: Stained Glass; Ceramics; Enamel (on leather)     Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts (Suzanne Duquet) (Montreal, QC)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Stained Glass Project for the Grande Seminaire in Trois Rivieres
PICKTHALL Marjorie Lowrie Christie     x   Active c.1883-22     Drawing; Painting: Watercolour                  
PIDDINGTON Helen M   x   x                          
PIERCE Leona       x Active c.1960                       "do you own a contemporary painting?"
PIERCE GWATKIN Marjorie       x   b.1890 d.1980               Clara Lander    
PIGOTT Marjorie           b.1904 - Yokohama, Japan d.1978 (*1990?) - Toronto, ON Painting: Watercolour British father and Japanese mother. British according to Japanese law.  Arrived in Canada in 1940 (vancouver)   Studied: Nanga School (for 12 years) Member: ARCA; CSPWC; OSA; RCA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PILCHER Elizabeth     x         Architecture                  
PINGWARTOK Ulayu (Ulayu; Ulayo) x         b.1904 - Lake Harbour, Baffin Island, NU d.1978 - Cape Dorset, NU Sculpture; Design: Graphic Arts First Nations. Cape Dorset, NU (1959)              
PINKERTON Constance C.   x x   Active c.1913     Painting   Montreal, QC              
PINKERTON E.M. x x   x                          
PINKERTON Harriet Jane (born Taylor)   x x     b.1852 d.1936 Painting   Exhibited Montreal, QC Studied: William Raphael (Montreal, QC); Lambert (Philadelphia, PA)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PINKERTON Kathleen (Kathleen Louise, Kitty Campbell Ward)           b.1902 - Toronto, ON d.1988 - Richmond Hill, ON Painting; Printmaking     Studied: OCA (AY Jackson, Arhur Lismer) Exhibited: WAAC     CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
PINKERTON Miss   x   x                          
PINNEO Paige (Georgianna Paige Pinneo) x       Active c.1977 b.1896 - Waterville, NS   Painting   Taught: Arthur Lismer at the Montreal Musuem of Fine Arts (1940-1944) Studied: Nova Scotia College of Art (Elizabeth Nutt) (1921 Halifax, NS); Acadia University Member: CSEA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PINSKY Claire (see HOGENHAMP Claire)   x   x Active c.1940                        
PINSKY Ghitta (see CAISERMAN Ghitta) x x   x   b.1923 d.2005                    
PIPON Florence Macdonald   x   x Active c.1932     Architecture             MMFA    
PIRIE Fanny       x                          
PITSEOLAK (Pitseolak Ashoona)           b.1904 - Tugjak, Hudon Strait, NWT d.1983 Printmaking; Drawing First Nations. Born in Tugjak but spent most of her life on Baffin Island, NU (mainly at the Foxe Peninsula).       Children: had 17 children, only 5 survived. Her four sons are wood carvers, and her daughter a printmaker   Ashoona, Pitseolak. "Pitseolak [electronic resource] : Pictures Out of My Life / from interviews by Dorothy Eber ; with the drawings and prints of Pitseolak Ashoona = Pisiulak : unikatuak inusiulautumik / apikasunisuni n" (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003) 1971: book of interviews pulished with illustrations by the artist. 1977: Order of Canada. 1978: the $0.14 stamp had a print of hers on it.
PLANTA Ethel Ann Carson (born Copeland)   x   x   b.1896 d.(?) Painting:Watercolour; Drawing     Studied: Emily MB Warren; Peter van der Braken Member: AAM     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
PLASKETT Aileen Anne (Aileen Plaskett Duffy) x x   x   b.1905 d.(?)       Studied: London; Ottawa Technical School (AF Newlands); Franklin Brownell and Ernest Fosbery (Ottawa, ON); Queen's University (Andre Bieler, Henri Masson and Carl Shaefer) (Kingston, ON) Member: OAA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PLATNER Rae KAtz       x   b.1905 - Poland   Sculpture     Studied: Central Technical School (Elizabeth Wyn Wood) (Toronto, ON); OCA (Emanuel Hahn); Frances Loring and Florence Wyle at their Studio (Toronto, ON) Member: SSC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
PLATT Aletha Hill   x   x   b.1861 d.1932                    
PLATTS Elsie Maud   x   x                          
PLIMSOLL Ellen J   x   x                          
PLIMSOLL Fanny Grace   x x   Active c.1892-1913 b.(?) - London, England   Painting: Miniature British Lived: Holland (1900); Montreal, QC Studied in Paris Exhibited: Paris Salon          
PLIMSOLL Miss   x   x                          
PLUMB Helga           b.1939                      
PLUMPTRE Mrs. A. F. W.     x         Architecture                  
POCOCK Nancy Meek x         b.1910 d.1998                    
POITVIN Rachel   x   x                          
POLLOWY Ann-Marie Balazs x   x         Architecture                  
POMEROY Constance       x Active c.2001 b. 1923   Painting     Studied: Vancouver School of Art (Jack Shadbolt and Fred Amess) Member: FCA     CHIN, File in Winnipeg Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
POMEROY Mary A   x   x Active c.1906                       La Presse
PONTON Marguerite       x Active c.1925           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures            
POOTOOGOOK Sharni (Pootoogook Pootoogook, Sharni Pootoogook, Sharnee Pootoogook, Sarnee Pootoogook, Sharnie Pootoogook, Sgarnee)       x   b.1922 d.2003 Printmaking; Sculpture Inuit Cape Dorset, NU       Sister: Pauta Saila (Artist, Sculptor). Husband: Pudlat Pootoogook CHIN, NGC    
POPE Maud Mary   x   x   b.1867 d.(?)                    
POPESCU Cara       x   b.1922 - Munich, Germany d.1992 Sculpture; Painting     Studied: Munich; Academy of fine Arts (Florence); Academy of Fine Arts (Otto Baum) (Stuttgart); Ecole des Beaux-arts (Albert Dumouchel) (Montreal, QC) Member: ASQ; OSA; SSC     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
PORATH Mrs C       x                     Manitoba Crafts Museum    
PORTEOUS Frances Esther Dudley           b.1896 - St Petronville, QC d.1946 - Montreal, QC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner and Randolph Hewton)(Montreal, QC) Member: Federation of Canadian Artists; CGP; AAM       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PORTEOUS Helen M   x   x                          
PORTEOUS Janet x x   x                          
PORTEOUS Piercy Evelyn Frances (Mrs. George Robert Younger)   x   x   b.1907 d.(?) Painting             CHIN (listed as male), MMFA, NGC Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
PORTER Catherine     x         Architecture                  
PORTER Mary Marguerite (see ZWICKER Mary)           b.1904 d.1993                    
POSTILL G. M.     x         Architecture                  
POTTER Dulcie (see CRANSTON Dulcie) x x   x Active c.1900                        
POULIN Antoinette       x       Yard Artist   St-Edouard-de-Lotbiniere, QC           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Grosbois, Louise de "Les patenteux du Quebec" (Montreal: Editions Parti pris, 1978)  
POWELL E   x   x                          
POWER Edith Alice Morton   x   x   b.1854 d.1909               MMFA    
POWER Florence   x   x                          
POWER Nora   x   x                          
PRAGER Eva Sophie       x   b.1912 - Berlin, Germany d.2010 Painting: Mural, Portrait   Westmount, QC Studied: Royal College of Art (London); Ecole Paul Colin (Paris).       CHIN, MMFA, MAC Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Received the Order of Canada in 1999. Reviews, Bio/Biblio. Painted a portrait of Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
PRAT Annie Louisa     x     b.1861 - Paradise, NL d.1960 - Nova Scotia Painting: Miniatures on Ivory.   New York, NY; NS Studied: Art Institute of Chicago   Had a studio in New York with her sister Mrs. Starr (leather book binding) Sister: Mrs Starr (Book binding) CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PRATT Ethel Louise     x   Active c.1906 b.(?) - Winnipeg, MB   Drawing; Painting: Watercolour; Design: Fabric Design, Furniture Design, Fashion   Montreal, QC; Toronto, ON (artist for the T Eaton company) Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (1923-1926); Guildhall School of Art (England)(1926 studied anatomy)           During WWII she worked in a factory making airplane parts,
PRATT Mary Frances West   x   x Active c.1935                        
PRATT Mildred Claire       x   b.1921 d.1995 Printmaking: Engraving     Studied:  Gordon Payne School of Fine Arts (George Payne); School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) Member: SCPE     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
PRESTON Annette Dorothy       x Active c.1918                   Arts Branch, NGC    
PREVOT Edith   x   x                          
PREVOT MArie   x   x                          
PREVOST MArie       x Active c.1902     Sculpture                  
PREZAMENT Rita (see BRIANSKY Rita)   x   x Active c.1925                        
PRICE Laura M       x Active c.1921                   MMFA    
PRIEST Hartwell Wyse       x   b. (?) Bradford, ON d. 2004 Printmaking: Etching; Drawing: Illustration Born in Onatrio   Studied in Paris     Husband: (possibly Lawyer, A.J. Priest)   http://www.law.virginia.edu/main/Priest,+A.J.G.  
PRINGLE Annie White (born Greive) (Mrs. James Pringle)           b.1867 - Leith, Scotland d.1945 -  Smiths Falls, ON Painting: Portrait Scottish Montreal, QC Studied: Eond Dyonnet and JY Johnstone (Montreal, QC); Monument National (Alfred Laliberte) (Montreal, QC); AAM (William Brymner) (Montreal, QC); Women's Art Studio (Adam Sherriff Scott, Lilias Torrance Newton and Randolph Hewton) Member: AAM; WAS       Prakash  
PRITTIE Mary Elizabeth   x x x   b.1908 d.1999 Painting       Member: OSA, RCA, CSPWC, WAAC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Had her work in an exhibition for the Heliconian Club's 100th anniversary.
PRIVETT Molly (born Dowler) x x   x   b. 1905 d. 1981 Painting     Studied: David Anderson; Herbert Siebner Member: BCSA     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). document in P file
PROCTOR Florence Evelyn Kemp   x x     b.1886 - Montreal, QC d.(?) Painting   Exhibited: New York at the Riverside Museum in 1947. Had a painting published in Toronto Saturday Night in 1938       Father: Sir Edward Kemp. Mother:Lady Kemp   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
PROCTOR M. H.     x   Active c.1896-97         Toronto, ON Was an art teacher. She hosted an exhibit with her students in Toronto at the Young Women's Guild in December 1896            
PROCUNIER May V   x   x                          
PROULX Anne       x   b.1923 d.1995 Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Ecole des Beaux-arts (Jean Paul Lemieux) (Quebec City, QC) Member: NOAA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
PRUD'HOMME Mary     x         Architecture                  
PRUS Maria     x         Architecture                  
PUDLAT Innukjuakju           b.1913 - Cape Dorset, NU d.1972 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Printmaking Inuit.     West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative in Cape Dorset          
PUDLAT Mary           b.1923 - Povungnituk, QC d.2001 - Kingait, NU Drawing; Printmaking; Sculpture Inuit. Baffin Island, NU (1940's)              
Q                                  
QAYUARYUK Mary (Quyuaryuk; Kudjurakju; Kujuakjuk; Kujuakju) x         b.1908 - Amadjuak, NWT d.1982 - Cape Dorset, NU Printmaking; Sculpture Inuit. Cape Dorset, NU (She was the first woman to be elected to the Cape Dorset Community Council. Was also a Midwife and Healer within her community)              
QINNUAYUAK Lucy x         b.1915 - Salluit, QC d.1982 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Painting; Printmaking; Sculpture Inuit. Baffin Island, NU       Husband: Tikituk (Tikkituq Qinnuatuaq) (sculptor, graphic artist)     Had an image of hers chosen for the Olympic banner (displayed at the AGO Toronto)1976. Largely focused on birds as subject matter.
QINUAJUA Sarah Joe Talirunili x         b.1917 - Inukjuak, QC d.1986 - Povungnituk, QC Drawing; Painting; Sculpture Inuit.                
QUAYLE Moura x   x         Architecture                  
QUILTER Florence Thompson x x   x Active c.1904                        
QUINN Jane       x   b.1917 d.2000 Photographer             CHIN    
R                                  
RABY Katherine (Catherine)           b.1775 - QC d.1864 Fibres: Embroidery     Studied: Convent of the Ursulines (1787-1788)            
RACICOT Gabrielle       x Active c.1924           Student            
RACIUS (also RAICIUS) Ethel x x   x Active c.1901                        
RAE Barbara   x   x                          
RAGEE Egevadluq           b.1920 - Ikirasak Camp, NU d.1983 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing: wax crayon, pen and ink; Painting: Acrylic (In 1970 she became one of the first inuit to use acrylic in Cape Dorset); Printmaking Inuit     West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative.          
RAGINSKI Nina   x   x Active c.1941                        
RAINNIE Ursula x x   x                          
RAKINE Marthe de   x   x Active c.1926     Painting             CHIN, Edmonton Art Gallery, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). reviews, bio and document in R file
RALBONI Carol       x Active c.1928     Sculpture                  
RANDALL Ethel     x   Active c.1928-30         Exhibited in Montreal, QC              
RANEY Suzanne Bryant           b.1918 - London, England   Printmaking: Engraving; Sculpture British, immigrated to Canada in 1919. Lived: Dunville, ON; Taught: NSCAD Studied: OCA (Franklin Carmichael and JW Beatty)            
RANKIN Elizabeth Mary (Mrs. J.S. Rankin)     x     b.1875 - ON d. 1936 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Watercolour                  
RANKIN Elizabeth Eugenie x   x     b.1872 - Glen Burnie, ON d. 1960 - Saskatoon, SK Painting: Watercolour   Taught: SK              
RANKIN Jane Elinor (Mrs. Mulligan)       x   b.1915 d.1992 Painting: Watercolour             MMFA (has a Jean Rankin)    
RANVOYZE Francoise       x       Silversmith               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
RAPHAEL Diana   x   x                          
RAPHAEL Shirley   x   x Active c.1937                        
RAPIN Aimée       x Active c.1925 b.1869 d.(?)               MMFA    
RATTRAY Dawn Amelia McCracken   x   x Active c.1935                        
RAVENHILL Alice     x     b.1859 - Snaresbrook, Essex, England d.1954 - Victoria, BC Fibres: Embroidery Came to Canada in 1910. Settled near Shawnigan Lake. Shawnigan Lake, BC; UT, USA (President of the home economics department at Utah State College  (1917-1919) )           Ravenhill, Alice. "The Native Tribes of British Columbia" (Victoria: Charles Banfield, 1938) Went around the English countryisde educating women about public health
and home economics. Became very interested in native tribes in British Columbia and wrote a book on the subject: "Native Tribes of British Columbia"
RAVENSHAW Edith Lalande (see PATTERSON Edith)   x   x   b.1876 d.(?)                    
RAWSTRON Alice Delphine   x   x Active c.1924                        
RAY Honey       x   b. 1915 d. 2006 Sculpture             CHIN, Edmonton Art Gallery, Calgary, MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews. document in R file
RAY Jessie F       x Active c.1915                        
RAYCROFT Jessie   x   x                          
RAYMAN Toby     x         Architecture                  
RAYMOND Suzanne Morin   x   x                          
RAYNER Louise   x   x   b.1832 d.1924                    
RAYNESFORD Mrs Louis K (other spellings: RAYNSFORD Mrs. Louie K)   x   x Active c.1935                   MMFA    
RAYNOR Ashley E.     x         Architecture                  
READ Adele   x   x                          
READ Catherine       x   b.1723 - Scotland d.1778                    
REDFERN Barbara   x   x           Montreal, QC              
REDMAYNE Gladys   x   x                          
REDSELL-FEDIOW Pauline Hazel Daisy (Mrs. William Fediow)   x   x   b.1908 d.1980 Sculpture; Painting       Member: SSC     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). docs in R file
REED Helen                             NGC    
REED Kate Lowrey Hayter   x   x   b.1856 d.1928                    
REEVES Barbara     x         Architecture                  
REEVES Gladys           b.1890 - Somerset, England d.1974 - Edmonton, AB Photography British. Immigrated to Edmonton in 1904.   Studied: Ernest Brown            
REIBER Eileen       x   b.1917   Painting       Member: ASA     CHIN, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
REID Alison x x   x                          
REID Lillian Irene (born Hoffar) (also: Mrs. Neville Reid)           b.1908 - Vancouver, BC d.1994 - Sidney, BC Drawing; Painting: mural and portrait     Studied: Vancouver School of Art (FH Varley and Charles H Scott); Royal Academy (London). Member: BCSA; CGP       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
REID Isobel (born Chestnut)   x x     b.1903 d.(?) Painting   Fredericton, NB Studied: OCA (Arthur Lismer, JEH MacDonald, JW Beatty) (Toronto, ON); Parsons School of Fine and Applied Arts (New York, NY)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
REID Laura Evans (Mrs. R. M. Reid) x x x     b.1883 - Guelph,ON d.1951 - Vegreville, AB Painting   Vegreville, AB Studied: Banff School of Arts; Received a scholarship from the Carnegie Trust Member: Calgary Sketch Club; Vegreville Art Club (President) (1937-38)         Only began painting in her 50's. She was an active member in her community of Vegreville until she died.
REID Leslie May Margaret   x   x Active c.1947                        
REID Lorna Fyfe   x x   Active c.1926 b.1887 - London, ON d.(?) - Toronto, ON Painting     Studied: New York; Paris (1925); F McGillivray Knowles (Toronto, ON); Art Students League (Kenneth Hayes Miller) (New York, NY) Member: HC; WAAC. Exhibited: Paris (Autumn Salon 1925) where her painting 'La Madonna' was widely celebrated.       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
REID Mary Evelyn (see WRINCH Mary)   x   x   b.1877 d.1969                    
REID Mary Augusta Hiester           b.1854 - Reading, PA, USA d.1921 - Toronto, ON Painting   Toronto, ON (1885) Studied: Pennsylviania Academy of Fine Arts (Thomas Eakins); Paris, France Member: OSA; RCA (associate); ARCA   Husband: George Agnew Reid (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
REISS Ruthetta Kaplan     x         Architecture                  
RENAUD Louise x     x Active c.1943 b.(?) - QC                 CHIN, NGC    
RENEHAN Hanka Helena Rosten     x         Architecture                  
REUSCH Didi     x   Active c.1949   d.(?) - Montreal, QC Fibres: Textiles, Tapestries; Painting,   Montreal, QC (1949 exhibition at West End Gallery)             She was celebrated for her tapestries. Exploring subject matter such as, exotic flowers, fields of grain, first snow, a pasture etc…
REUSCH Kina   x   x Active c.1940-88                        
REYNOLDS Catherine Margaret           b.1784 - Detroit River Region d.1864 - Amherstberg, Upper Canada Painting: Landscape painting, watercolour, sepia wash; Drawing: pencil, crayon   Amherstberg, ON (after the British evacuation of Detroit 1796) Studied: Self-taught         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Earliest native-born painter of Detroit River Region
REYNOLDS Jos   x   x                          
REYNOLDS Mrs S. x     x Active c.1896         Toronto, ON              
REYNOLDS Phyllis   x   x                          
RHÉAUME Jeanne LeBlanc           b.1915 - Montreal, QC d.2000 - Montreal, QC Painting: Watercolour; Fibres: Tapestry, Weaving     Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts; AAM (Lilias Torrance Newton, Harold Beament, and Goodridge Roberts); won the Jessie Dow Prize         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Signed the manifesto "Prisme d'yeux"
RHIND H Nancy Greenless   x   x                          
RHODES Catherine L.J. (also Katherine) x x   x Active c.1925           Studied: AAM            
RICARD Mlle       x Active c.1880     Drawing, Ceramics: drawing on ceramics                  
RICE Nan (Janet MacKenzie)       x   b.1890 d.1955     Winnipeg, MB; Chicago, IL, USA         Clara Lander, NGC    
RICHARD Julie (see SZABLOWSKI Julie)   x   x Active c.1932                        
RICHARDS Ellen C.     x   Active c.1880-83     Painting: Watercolour   Ottawa, ON              
RICHARDS Frances Elwood   x   x   b.1852 d.1934                    
RICHARDS Ida   x   x                          
RICHARDS Miss       x Active c.1895                        
RICHARDS Phyllis (see HARVEY Phyllis)   x   x                          
RICHARDSON Barbara       x Active c.1927     Drawing                  
RICHARDSON Doris Kathleen   x   x   b. 1922   Painting           Husband: Ross Richardson CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009).  
RICHARDSON Effie G.   x x   Active c.1921-36   Westmount, QC                    
RICHARDSON Margaret W.   x x   Active c.1934-36         Exhibited: Toronto, ON              
RICHER Dora       x Active c.1927     Design: Poster Design   Montreal, QC              
RICHMOND Agnes M   x   x                          
RICHMOND Evelyn   x   x                          
RICHMOND Lorraine (see SURCOUF Lorraine)   x   x Active c.1933                        
RICHSTONE Belle C   x   x Active c.1930                       MMFA has file
RICKER Annie Louise       x Active c.1939             Member: Maritime Art Association          
RICKERSON Genia Tseretelli   x   x   b.1901 - St Petersburg, Russia   Painting             CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
RIDDELL Mrs A.F.   x   x                          
RIDDELL Olga M.   x   x                          
RIDOUT Evelyn M.   x   x   b.1882 d.(?)                    
RIORDON Mary Kathleen   x x   Active c.1934     Painting   Exhibited in Montreal, QC              
RIOUX Madame (Yolande?)       x       Fibres: Textiles               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
RIOUX Yolande Rousseau (see ROUSSEAU Yolande)   x x   Active c.1910                        
RISTELHUEBER Denise     x     b.1919 - Lithuania   Painting   Solo Exhibition at Galerie Stevens in 1941 Studied: Max Band     Father: Minister of France for Canada     Did a lot of travelling as a child with her family.
RITCHIE Ella Almon       x             Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design         McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
RITCHIE Percival Molson (P.M.)  MacKenzie   x x     b.1917 - Point-au-Pic, QC d.2004 - Naramata, BC Painting: Mural Painting and Decoration     Studied: Edwin Holgate         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
RITHET Elizabeth Jane Hannah (born Munro)     x     b.1853 - London, England d. 1952 - Victoria, BC   British         Father: Alexander Munro ( chief factor for Hudson Bay Company)      
RITSVEDT Milly   x   x Active c.1942                        
RIVET Juliette       x Active c.1925     Drawing     Won a drawing prize at school            
ROBB Stephanie     x         Architecture                  
ROBBINS Kathleen     x         Architecture                  
ROBERGE Agnes   x   x                          
ROBERT Madame       x Active c.1870-99     Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Rouville, QC         National Museum of Man McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Mattie, Joan I., et al., "Folk Art in Canada" (Plattsburgh, NY: Clinton County Historical Museum, 1981)  
ROBERTS Grace MacLeod (see MACLEOD)   x x   Active c.1889                        
ROBERTS Miss       x Active c.1897     Ceramics   Toronto, ON              
ROBERTSON Agnes Muir   x   x                          
ROBERTSON Beatrice (born Hagarty)           b.1879 - Toronto, ON d.1962 - Toronto, ON Painting: oil, Drawing: book illustration     Studied: Laura Muntz Lyall (Toronto, ON); Claudio Castellucio (Paris); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris) Member: OSA; HC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Known for her flower paintings.
ROBERTSON Doris   x   x Active c.1933     Engraving?     Studied: AAM            
ROBERTSON Hazel M (possibly also Hazel BOSWELL?) x x   x Active c.1906                        
ROBERTSON Helen Weimal           b.1917 - Tartu, Estonia d.2002 - Chippewa, ON Sculpture Estonian. Immigrated to Canada 1925.     Member: Sculptor's Society of Canada       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ROBERTSON Madge   x   x                          
ROBERTSON Marion E x x x   Active c.1915-28 b.1930       Exhibited: Montreal, QC         MMFA    
ROBERTSON Miss S   x   x                          
ROBERTSON Mrs James   x   x                          
ROBERTSON Sarah Margaret Armour           b.1891 - Montreal, QC d.1948 - Montreal, QC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Randolph Hewton) (Montreal, QC) Member: BHG (Associate); CGP; WAAC; AAM          
ROBERTSON Sybil Octavia (Mrs. Dobell)           b.1896 d.(?) Painting   Montreal, QC   Member: BHG (Founding Member)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ROBINSON A Beverly x x   x                          
ROBINSON Edith (Hardy) x         b.1925 - Montrose, PEI   Photography   Taught: Photography at Holland College (Charlottetown, PEI) Self taught photographer, worked taking photos of weddings. Member: Charlottetown Camera Club (PEI)          
ROBINSON Katherine Mary Day Ross   x   x   b.1928 d.2000                    
ROBINSON Kathleen B x x   x                          
ROBINSON Madalyn D   x   x Active c.1924                   MMFA    
ROBINSON Maria Susan     x     b.1793   Painting: She painted views of Upper Canada from 1815-1817           Father: Sir Frederick Robinson (commander of the forces in Upper Canada 1814-1816). Husband: Hamilton (British Diplomat)      
ROBINSON Mary Grey     x   Active c.1949     Painting   Exhibited: West End Gallery (Montreal, QC)              
ROBINSON Mrs B       x Active c.1938                        
ROCHE Mme Frédéric T. (Minerva?)     x   Active c.1869 London, England   Painting: indigenous flower paintings, watercolour British. Immigrated to Canada 1851.               awarded a prize for her watercolor paintings of indigenous flowers 1869 at the Agricultural and Horticultural Society (Montreal, QC)
ROCHE Mrs. P.P.       x       Fibres: Textiles, Rug Hooking               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
ROCHELEAU Alice   x   x                          
RODGER Louise Z (or Z. Louise)   x   x Active c.1921         Toronto, ON              
RODIERZ Lucile       x Active c.1913           Prize Winning Student            
RODOCANACHI Hypatia   x   x Active c.1872                        
ROGERS Carol     x         Architecture                  
ROGERS Florence M       x Active c.1915-49     Painting: Watercolour               "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
ROGERS Mrs. P.     x         Architecture                  
ROLLAND Mrs. Frank   x   x Active c.1895                        
ROMER Anna De   x   x                          
ROMER Sophie De   x   x                          
RONNER Alice   x   x                          
ROOKE Alice Constance   x   x Active b.1886                        
ROPER Glenna     x         Architecture                  
ROSAMOND Mary   x   x                          
ROSANO (ROSANA?) Mria Altilia       x   b.1905 d.(?) Sculpture     Studied: Central Technical School (Elizabeth Wyn Wood) (Toronto, ON)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
ROSE Astra     x         Architecture                  
ROSE Beryl   x   x                          
ROSE Joyce Esther Dangoor   x   x Active c.1927                        
ROSE Mary Margaret     x         Architecture                  
ROSENEAU Helen     x         Architecture                  
ROSENFIELD Ethel           b.1910 - Poland d.2000 Sculpture: Limstone, marble, soapstone, granite and bronze; Painting; Ceramics Polish Montreal, QC Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts (1957-60 Louis Archamault, Sylvia Daoust and Armand Filion) (Montreal, QC) Member: Quebec Sculpture Association. Has work at Stormking Sculpture Park (NY, USA)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ROSENGARTEN Ann J.   x   x Active c.1950         Montreal, QC              
ROSENMAN Mrs. x   x         Architecture                  
ROSEWARNE Frances (see JONES Frances)   x   x   b.1916 d.2002                    
ROSS Doris Evans   x   x                          
ROSS Eleanor M.   x x   Active c.1897     Painting: Miniatures on Ivory   Exhibited in Montreal, QC              
ROSS Elizabeth Compton     x         Architecture                  
ROSS Grace       x                     MMFA    
ROSS Helen Bunker     x         Architecture                  
ROSS Hilda Katherine           b.1902 - Ottawa, ON d.(?) - Burnaby, BC Ceramics: Pottery; Painting Moved to BC from Ontario in 1960s. Taught: UBC Summer School of Visual Arts (Pottery) (1963) Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (Lemoine FitzGerald); BC College of Art (FH Varley); Art Institute of Chicago; UBC Member: British Columbian Potters Guild (Founder) (1953)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ROSS Janet     x         Architecture                  
ROSS Margaret x x   x                          
ROSS Miss   x   x                          
ROSS Mrs James   x   x                          
ROSS Phyllis G   x   x                          
ROSS Stuart   x   x                          
ROTCH Lydia W       x Active c.1941     Sculpture                  
ROSS Susan Andrina (born Ruttan)       x   b.1915 - Port Arthur, ON d.2006 - Port Arthur, ON Painting; Printmaking; Drawing: Illustration,     Studied: OCA (JW Beatty and Franklin Carmichael); Joe Manning   Friends with Norval Morriseau Father: Colonel Harry Ruttan. Mother: Mrs. Harry Ruttan. Uncle: Robert Falherty (filmmaker- known for "Nanook of the North") CHIN? MAC (under ROTH, Susan ?) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ROTHFELS Joanne (see MANNING Joanne)   x   x Active c.1923                        
ROTHSCHILD Hanni (Joanna Eleonore)       x Active c.1980 b.1921   Sculpture; Ceramics: Pottery     Studied: HB Beal Technical School (London, ON); Central Technical School (Bobs Cogill Haworth) (Toronto, ON) Member: SSC     CHIN, Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews, docs in R file
ROTT (Margaret) Margrit (Margit?)   x   x   b.1898 d.(?) Sculpture             CHIN, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has review, docs in R file
ROUEN Jacqueline De   x   x                          
ROUILLARD Pauline Roy     x         Architecture                  
ROUNTHWAITE Shelagh     x         Architecture                  
ROUSSEAU Mariette   x   x Active c.1926                        
ROUSSEAU Yolande Rioux           b.1910 - Trois-Pistoles, QC d.2003 Ceramics: Pottery   Exhibited: MMFA Spring Exhbitions (1959, 1963); Mural at Expo 67 Studied: Ecole des Arts Applique (Jean Cartier) (Montreal, QC)            
ROUSSIL Madeleine       x                         Gave work to be sold for the profit of the NDP
ROWAT Evelyn E x x   x                          
ROWLAND Edith   x   x Active c.1925                        
ROWLANDS June     x         Architecture                  
ROWLEY Frances (see RICHARDS Frances)   x   x   b.1852 d.1934                    
ROY Elayne   x   x Active c.1931                        
ROY Floy     x   Active c.1935     Painting; Drawing   Montreal, QC (Worked as an archivist for l'Ecole des Beaux Arts) (1935)              
ROYDS Mabel Allington   x   x   b.1874 d.1941               MMFA    
ROYLE Jean   x   x                          
RUDDICK Dorothy Cole   x   x Active c.1925                        
RUDDICK Ernestine S   x   x                          
RUSK Hannah (see KELLY)     x                            
RUSSEL Edna     x         Architecture                  
RUSSEL Marian     x         Architecture                  
RUSSELL Andrea Elizabeth   x   x                          
RUSSELL Lillian F. (Lillian E. Russell)   x x   Active c.1908-23     Drawing                 Drew many scenes of Quebec.
RUSSELL Mary Scott MacDonald       x   b.1901   Painting     Studied: Moncton Art Society (Ronald Irving) (Moncton, NB); Mount Allison University (Lawren P. Harris and Edward Pulford) (Sackville, NB)       CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
RUSSO Gertrude     x         Architecture                  
RUSSOCKI Margaret     x         Architecture                  
RUSTON Hilda Sophia (born Marquette)   x   x Active c.1948 b.1908 d.1984 Painting     Studied: Frank Panabaker; Gordon Payne Member: OSA   Husband: Alfred Ruston CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews and docs in R file
RUTHERFORD Erica (Katasandra Talia?)       x   b.1923 d.2008 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Slade School of Art  (London, England)       CHIN, U of C Library, MMFA Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
RYALL Susan   x   x                          
RYAN Sally Tack       x   b.1916                 MMFA    
RYLEY Miss       x Active c.1847                        
RYSHPAN Daisy Shief Lefson   x   x Active c.1935                   MMFA    
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SADD Evva Moore (Eva)     x     b.1870 d.1970 Painting: oil, watercolour         Exhibited with her husband, W. Harvey Sadd Husband: W. Harvey Sadd (artist)      
SADOWSKA Carolyn   x x     b.1944 - Liverpool, England   Painting British Quebec, QC Studied: Liverpool college of Art; Ecole des Beaux Arts (Quebec)            
SADOWSKA Krystyna (Krystyna Sadowski)           b.1912 - Lublin, Poland d.1994 Painting; Ceramics: Pottery; Fibres: Textiles; Sculpture; Printmaking Polish Brazil Studied: Warsaw Academy of Art   Worked with her husband Konrad Sadowski.        
SAGGIAK Lissie     x     b.1924 - Sugluk, Ungava Coast, QC d.1989 - Cape Dorset, NU Printmaking Born in Sugluk on the Ungava Coast in Quebec, and moved to Baffin Island with her husband when they were married.                
SAHIN Bela Toth x   x         Architecture                  
SAINTE-MARIE Judith     x     b.1886 - Longeuil, QC d.1970 - Longeuil, QC Painting     Studied: Le Couvent des Soeurs du Bon Pasteur de St-Hubert (Quebec)     The 4th of 11 children.     Upon her death about 60 works were donated to the Ministère des Affaires Culturelles .
SAIT Gwendolyn L.   x x   Active c. 1924-30's     Painting                  
SALMS Mrs       x Active c.1894     Painting: Flower                  
SAMMONS Millie       x             Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (unclear if she studied or taught here)         See the resource: Baker, Marilyn. "The Winnipeg School of Art: The Early Years." (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1984)  
SAMSON Monique       x Active c.1948         Exhibited: Trois Rivieres, QC             "Salon de peinture aux Trois-Rivières"
SAMUALI (SAMUALIE) Keeleemeeoomee           b.1919 - Quinqu Camp, NU d.1983 Printmaking; Drawing First Nations.     She had works produced by: West Baffin Print Cooperative          
SAMUEL Edith Mary Thornton   x   x Active c.1935                        
SAMUEL Miss x x   x                          
SAMUEL Matilda S.   x x   Active c.1860 Toronto, ON   Painting     Studied: Art Student's League (John Carlson) (Woodstock NY) Member: HC          
SAMUELS H.S.   x   x                          
SANBORN Margaret Jane   x x     b.1861 - Montreal, QC d.1949 - Montreal, QC Painting; Drawing: Sketching                  
SANDERSON Mae Dick       x Active c.1912     Painting: China Painting                  
SARGENT Sonia (see CROSSEN Sonia)   x   x Active c.1930                        
SARTONI Giulia   x   x                          
SASAKI Tomiyo   x   x Active c.1943                        
SAUCIER Mlle J       x Active c.1925           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures            
SAULTS Hazel       x                     Clara Lander    
SAUNDERS Lois   x x   Active c.1894     Painting   Kingston, ON   Exhibited: Montreal Art Association in 1894, Ontaio Society of Artists 1896          
SAUNDERS Mrs F.W.   x   x                          
SAUNDERS V.G.   x   x Active c.1923     Ceramics                  
SAURIOL Andree   x   x                          
SAVAGE Adele   x   x                          
SAVAGE Anne (Annie) Douglas           b.1896 - Montreal, QC d.1971 - Montreal, QC Painting     Studied: AAM (William Brymner and Mauriec Cullen) Member: CGP; BHG Friends with AY Jackson (possibly romantic)     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SAVAGE Elenor   x   x                          
SAVAGE Gladys x x   x                          
SAVAGE Helen Galt (Mrs. John)       x           Montreal, QC   Member: Montreal Ladies Benevolent Society (Director 1896-1907)   Daughter: Anne Savage (artist)   McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Convenor of Philanthropy at Toronto Quinquennial 1909
SCHÄFFER Mary T.S. (see WARREN)     x                            
SCHEEPERS Malvina (Malvina Scheepers Coburn; Mrs. F. S. Coburn)           b.(?) - Belgium d.1933 - Paris, France Painting Belgian   Studied: Antwerp     Husband: Fredrick Simpson Coburn (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SCHEFFER Carol     x         Architecture                  
SCHELL Mary Hallman x x   x                          
SCHENK V   x   x                          
SCHETTY Germaine       x Active c.1934     Drawing   Taught Drawing              
SCHINTZ Janet D   x   x                          
SCHMIDT Marianna   x   x   b.1918-Yugoslavia d.2005 Painting; Printmaking             CHIN, Ellen Gallery, Artexte, MMFA, U of C MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews, and bio. docs in S file
SCHNEIDER C.H.   x   x                          
SCHNEIDER Mary           b.1900 - Vilnius, Lithuania d.1992 - Ottawa, ON Painting: Watercolor; Drawing; Printmaking Born in Eastern Europe (Poland) came to Canada in 1950 Taught: Acadia University (NS); OCAD (Toronto, ON)(1952); Founded the Schneider School of Fine Art (Actoniolte, ON) Studied: Roman Schnieder (husband) Member: HC; OSA Students at The Schneider Art School: Jackson Pollock, Rosemary Killbourn, and Carl Alex Millar. Husband: Roman Schneider (Architect, Artist, Ceramics)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Her husband was a highly regarded architect in Warsaw before the war. After WWII they volunteered with the polish army and were stationed in the middle east, and made their way to Iran. They stayed until 1951 and then moved to Canada. Initially to Nova Scotia to work at Acadia Univeristy, and then on to work at Ontario College of Art in Toronto (1952). Her husband Roman Schneider was accomplished in ceramics and Mary Schneider in painting.  Roman died in 1969 but Mary continued to run the school on her own. The school was purchased in 1992 and is now a retreat called the Bridgewater Retreat
SCHOFIELD Ruth   x   x                          
SCHREIBER Charlotte Mount Brock (born Morrell) x         b.1834 - Woodham Mortimer, Essex, England d.1922 - Paignton, Devon, England Painting; Drawing British   Studied: John Rogers Herbert (London); Mr. Carey's School of Art (London) Member: RCA; OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SCHREIER Hilde   x   x Active c.1926                        
SCHWARTZ Suzanne x x   x                          
SCHWEIZER Rebecca       x Active c.late 19th century     Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   New Hamburg, ON           Bird, Michael S. and Terry Kobayashi. "A Splendid Harvest: Germanic folk and decorative Arts in Canada" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981)  
SCHWOB Doris   x   x                          
SCLATER Mabel   x   x                          
SCOBIE Margaret   x   x                          
SCOMOROCO Catherine       x Active c.early 20th century     Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   Kitchener, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Kobayashi, Terry and Michael Bird. "A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists" (Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1985)  
SCOTT Elizabeth     x         Architecture                  
SCOTT Anne Adele       x Active c.1917-28           Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (1917-1928)            
SCOTT Arlene C   x   x                          
SCOTT Cynthia Myra   x   x Active c.1939                        
SCOTT Emily Maria Spaford   x   x   b.1832 d.1915                    
SCOTT Ethel   x   x                          
SCOTT Lillian   x   x   b.(?) d.1964                    
SCOTT Louise   x   x   b.1936 d.2007                    
SCOTT Marguerite O'Donnell   x   x                          
SCOTT Marian Mildred Dale (Mrs. Francis R.)           b.1906 - Montreal, QC d.1993 - Montreal, QC Painting   Montreal, QC Studied: AAM (William Brymner); Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal); Slade School of Art (Henry Tonks)(London) Member: ARCA; CAS; CGP; RCA; SAPQ       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SCOTT Mary S   x   x                          
SCOTT Mrs A.C (is this Arlene C SCOTT?) x     x Active c.1921     Ceramics                  
SCOTT Mrs E.M.       x Active c.1894     Painting                 "Mrs. E. M. Scott's 'Roses' were, of course, what one might expect from her skilful brush."
SCOTT Ruth     x         Architecture                  
SCOUVELL Susan     x         Architecture                  
SEATH Ethel           b.1879 - Montreal, QC d.1963 - Montreal, QC Drawing; Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking; Commercial Artist   Worked: Montreal, QC (worked as a commercial artist for the Montreal Witness and the Montreal Star) Studied: Edmond Dyonnet; AAM (William Brymner and Maurice Cullen); Charles Hawthorne (Provincetown) Member: BHG; CAS; CGP       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SEBAG Nancy (see MONTEFIORE Nancy)   x   x                          
SECTER Marcia E. x   x         Architecture                  
SEEGMILLER Wilhelmina       x   b.1856 - Ontario d.1913     USA              
SEELEY Florence   x   x                          
SEELEY-SMITH Dorothy (born Betts) (see SMITH Dorothy)   x x     b.1890 - London, England d.1964 - Victoria, BC Painting Born in England, Paris, Victoria Exhibited: London; Paris (1913 Paris Salon); Victoria, BC (where she retired) Studied: Carolyn Farncombe; Florence Carlyle (London); Robert Henri (New York); Madame Lafarge "one of the world's best artists" (1911 Paris)   Worked with Eva Bradshaw (painted and sketched together) Father: Mr. EB Betts. Mother: Mrs. EB Betts. Husband: Colonel EA Seeley-Smith MMFA    
SEGAL Annette       x Active c.1955     Ceramics                  
SEGSWORTH Florence E   x   x                          
SEGSWORTH Miss       x Active c.1904     Painting                  
SEGUIN Tutzi (see HASPEL Tutzi)   x   x Active c.1911                        
SEIDEN Regina  (see GOLDBERG)     x                            
SELLMAN E Ella   x   x                          
SELWYN Winifrede   x x     b.1888 - Brandon, MB d.(?)       Studied: Art Student's League (New York); Cooper Union (New York) Member: WAAC (Ottawa)          
SEMPLE Margaret Hunter Doty (Mrs. Howard Mitchell Semple)           b.1900 - Yarmouth, NS d.(?) Painting: Watercolour                  
SÉNÉCAL Annette (see BELLEFEUILLE Annette)   x   x Active c.1939                   NGC    
SÉNÉCAL Irène x         b.1901 - Montreal, QC d.1978 Drawing; Painting   Montreal, QC           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SENITT Cathy   x   x Active c.1945                        
SEWELL C.M. x x   x                          
SEWELL Elizabeth     x     b.1811 - Ireland d.1888 Painting: Watercolour; Drawing Irish Worked: Quebec, QC (1832; 1854 - 55); Chicago, IL, USA Studied: England            
SEWELL M.   x   x                          
SEWELL Miss   x   x                          
SEWELL-SHEPLAND Marjorie     x         Architecture                  
SEYBOLD   x   x                          
SEYMOUR Miss M.     x         Architecture                  
SHACKLETON Kathleen   x x     b.1884 - Dublin, Ireland d.1961-London, England Drawing: Illustration, Portrait, Pastel Born in Ireland. Came to Canada 1912 (Montreal). Czechoslovakia; Montreal, QC Exhibited at Walker Gallery (London); Whitechapel Gallery (London); The Royal Water Colour Society at Pall Mall (London); Chateau Frontenac (Quebec City, QC); 1921-22 she worked in Czechoslovakia doing propaganda for the newly formed republic. Returned to Montreal (westmount) to live with her sister Helen Shackleton Brietzske Studied: England; Royal Drawing Society (London); Regent Street Polytechnic (London); Goldsmith's Institute (London); William Nicholson Attended Royal Academy lectures at Burlington House, with Sir George Clausen.   Brother:Ernest Shackleton (explorer); Sister: Helen Shackleton Brietzske   http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07544/kathleen-shackleton?role=art worked as a reporter, and contributed drawings to the women's and children's pages of The Montreal Star. She was a celebrated portraitist. In 1940 she drew portraits on 48 C.P.R railway men from coast to coast. (very good extensive bio on Artists in Canada).
SHADLOCK Louise   x   x                          
SHALLCROSS Ethel Maude     x     b.1878 - County Westmeath, Ireland d.1948 - Oak Bay, BC Sculpture: Woodcarving Irish Oak Bay, BC Studied: Miss. Edith Hendy (wood carving) Member: Vancouver Island Arts and Crafts Society   Husband: John James Shallcross   http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/results.aspx?partyid=1175&src=1-2 Was one of seven women who carved the reredos for the Anglican Church at Oak Bay (1911). lived in a house designed by Samuel Maclure called "Tor Lodge" in Oak Bay, BC.. When Ethel Shallcross died in 1948 she willed an extraordinary amount of paintings, furniture, books, rare prints among other things "to be maintained as an art exhibit in th eprovincial museum-orelsewhere, as a unit- as a memorial to my late husband John James Shallcross...".
SHANANDITTI Nancy (Shawnawdithit)           b.1801 - Red Indian Lake, NL d.1829 - St John's, NL Drawing First Nations. She is often referred to as "the last Beothuck"                
SHAPIRO Elizabeth     x         Architecture                  
SHAPIRO Helen Flora Tarshis x x   x Active c.1922                        
SHARP Dorothea   x x     b.1877 - Kent, England d.(?) Painting British Westmount, QC (1913) Studied: London; Paris Member: Royal Society of British Artists; Society of Women Artists (London)         She was very prolific and a lot of her work was sold at auction in the 1990's
SHARP Helen   x   x Active c.1925           Studied: AAM            
SHAVER Irene   x   x   b.1897 (1898?) d.(?)               CHIN, MMFA, NGC MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews, . docs in S file
SHAW Avery Maynard   x   x   b.1907 d.1957                    
SHAW Hilda M   x   x                          
SHAW Jane Brumm   x   x Active c.1917                        
SHAW Peggy   x   x Active c.1935                   MMFA    
SHELDON-WILLIAMS Dorothea     x     b.1873 - Hampshire, England d.1938 - Regina, SK Painting Born in England she came to Canada with her mother in 1888 (Cannington Manor)   Studied: Slade School (London)            
SHELTON Margaret Dorothy (Mrs. Marcellus)           b.1915 - Bruce, AB d.1984 -  Calgary, AB Printmaking; Drawing; Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Normal School (Calgary, AB); Banff School of Fine Arts (AC Leighton);  Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now SAIT) (H.G. Glyde, W.J. Phillips and Marion Nicoll) (Calgary, AB) Member: Calgary Sketch Club; Canadian Society of Graphic Art; Soceity of Canadian Painters, Etchers and Engravers; ASA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SHEPHERD Helen Parsons (Helen Somerton Parsons, Mrs. Reginald Shepherd)           b.1923 - St John's, NL d.2008 - St John's, NL Painting: Portrait, Still Life   Taught: Newfoundland Academy of Art (Alongside her husband they operated this school, and it was the first art school in Newfoundland) Studied: OCA (only student from Newfoundland) Member: RCA (1978)     CHIN, MMFA MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). Has reviews + long bio.  (* Exact same birth and death dates as Erica Rutherford.- possibly a typo?)
SHEPHERD Mrs. W. J. x   x         Architecture                  
SHEPHERD M Cecilia x x   x                          
SHERBECK M. Carmen   x x   Active c.1947         Edmonton, AB (1947)              
SHERIDAN Clare       x Active c.1924                   CHIN (has a Mrs. C.W. Sheridan)    
SHERIDAN Mrs.   x   x                          
SHERIDAN Miss Katie L   x   x                          
SHERMAN May       x Active c.1904     Painting     Studied: Art Association (Prize Winning Student) in "Classes de peinture antique"            
SHERRARD Miss G.F.       x       Leatherwork   Sackville, NB           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Coronation gift to Queen Mary
SHERWOOD Mrs   x   x                          
SHIM Brigitte     x         Architecture                  
SHINKODA Lily K.     x         Architecture                  
SHONIKER Claire Marie   x   x Active c.1931                        
SHORE Henrietta Mary           b.1880 - Toronto, ON d.1963 - San Jose, CA, USA Painting: Watercolour, Mural Painting; Printmaking   Worked: CA, USA Studied: Laura Muntz Lyall (Toronto); New York School of Art (Robert Henri and Williams Merritt Chase); Art Students League (Frank Vincent DuMond) (New York); Heatherly School of Fine Art (London, England) Member: OSA (1909-1915);  Oregon Society of Artists; New York Society of Women Artists (founder); Los Angeles Modern Art Society (founder)     NGC (has work of hers) Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) ALSO: in 1932 she  mentions how the painting "negro Woman and Child" hanging in the National Gallery of Canada is in fact not her best work and she wished that the gallery would get acquainted with her new work. Edward Weston cites her as huge inspiration
SHOTWELL Margaret Harvey     x     b.1873 - Wyoming, ON d.1965 Painting     Studied:University of Toronto; Sorbonne; University of Geneva; Rome   Showed work at the same Salon as Mary Cassat (was still said to have been the best woman painter of the year) Husband: James T. Shotwell (married: 1902)      
SHOUB Lisa x x   x                          
SHREEVE Sara     x         Architecture                  
SICOTTE Rolande       x Active c.1930           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
SILVERSLETH Margrethe   x   x   b.1897 d.(?)                    
SIMCOE Elizabeth Posthuma (born Gwillim)           b.1762 - Northamptonshire, England d.1850 - Honiton, England Painting: Watercolour, Miniature           Husband: John Graves Simcoe (Travelled to Canada with him for his work)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SIMCOE Sophia Jemima     x     b.1789 d.1850   British parents. Came to Canada with their parents (from England?) and lived at the Simcoe Estate, Wolford Lodge 1797-1850 and then at Bath.         Father: General John Graves Simcoe. Mother: Elizabeth P.G. Simcoe.      
SIMON Ellen Rosalie x     x   b. 1916 d. 2011 (2004*) Painting: Glass Painting, Stained Glass; Sculpture: Glass; Printmaking; Design: Graphic Design     Studied: OCA (Yvonne Housser, Franklin Carmichael and George Pepper); Art Students League (New York) Member: CSGA     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). docs in S file. reviews and  bio
SIMONE Elsie Elise     x       d.1893 Painting                 According to her obituary in Toronto Saturday Night she died young. Her ambitious work nature apparently had negative effects on her health.
SIMONS Lucie   x   x                          
SIMPSON Grace   x   x                          
SIMPSON Kathleen Carswell   x   x   b.1915 d.1992                    
SIMPSON Minnie A   x   x                          
SIMPSON Shirley       x Active c.1927           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
SIMPSON Thomas   x   x                          
SIMS Olga     x         Architecture                  
SINCLAIR Agnes B. (Mrs. Agnes B. Johnson)     x     b.1892 - Nottingham, England d.1952 - Owen Sound, ON Painting   Taught: Owen Sound, ON Studied: F MacGillvray Knowles (studied oil painting) Member: WAAC (Owen Sound, Ontario)          
SINCLAIR Anne     x         Architecture                  
SINCLAIR Mrs Dugald   x   x                          
SINGER Sylvia Roberta   x   x Active c.1930                        
SINKINS Audree Lucille (Andrée Lucille Sinkins)   x   x Active c.1911-32     Sculpture             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews
SINUK Vita       x Active c.1953     Painting                  
SIPPRELL Clara Estelle           b.1885 - Tillsonburg, ON d.1975 - Manchester, VT, USA Photography Moved to Buffalo New York in 1895 Worked: New York, NY, USA (with her brother at his photography studio)   Member: Pictorial Photographers of America; the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain; Arts Club of Washington          
SISLER Rebecca JEan   x   x Active c.1932                        
SISSONS Lynn (Lillian) x         b.1898 - Portage la Prairie, MB d.1985 Painting: China Painting, Egg Tempera, Watercolour     Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (Franz Johnston; Joe Plaskett; Lemoine Fitzgerald; WJ Phillips and George Swinton) Member: MSA; Manitoba Society of Artists (founder)   Her family was one of the pioneer families of Portage La Prairie.   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SISTERS OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE     x   Active c.1944     Fibres: Embroidery (appliqué, stitchery, and design for vestements and banners for the church)   Toronto, ON             the sisters of st.john the divine would do  the embroidery, appliqué, stitchery, and design for  vestements and banners for the church.
SISTERS OF ST. MARGARET x   x   Active c.1944     Fibres: Embroidery on silk   Montreal, QC              
SITWELL Grace   x   x                          
SIUPIK Maggie (Qatippa, Maggie Siupi; Qatippa, Qatippa;Qatippa, Sheeguapik; Qatippa, Sheegoapik;Qatippa, Irqumia;Qatippa, Siuppi;Qatippa, Sheeapik; Sioupik;Siupik)           b.1916 - Puvirnituk, QC d.1984 - Puvirnituk, QC Drawing; Printmaking First Nations.                
SIVERSLETH Margrethe (See Also SILVERSLETH)   x x     b.1897 - Denmark d.(?) Design: Textile Design, Graphic Design Danish Montreal, QC (1931)              
SKAIFE Gertrude x x   x                          
SKELTON Leslie James     x     b.1848 - Montreal, QC d.1929 Painting     Studied: Montreal; Paris Member: Colorado Springs Art Society (Vice-President 1916)          
SLACK Helen (see WICKENDEN Helen)   x   x                          
SLADER Patricia Yorke     x         Architecture                  
SLAIGHT Annabel Gerald     x         Architecture                  
SLATER Ruth (see WAINWRIGHT Ruth)   x   x   b.1902 d.1984                    
SLEEPER Catherine     x         Architecture                  
SLIMON Mrs.       x Active c.1927     Fibres: Needlepoint                  
SMALE Catherine Currie     x         Architecture                  
SMARDON Kate I   x   x                          
SMELLIE Sylvia   x   x Active c.1933     Painting                  
SMILY Elizabeth Marion Wolf   x   x Active c.1918                        
SMITH A Harris   x   x                          
SMITH Abigail       x Active c.1860     Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   New Maryland, NB         New Brunswick Museum McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts
Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Traquair, Ramsay. "Hooked Rugs in Canada," (Canadian Geographical Journal 36 (May 1943), 240-53.
 
SMITH Audrey       x Active c.1925           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures            
SMITH Carvolth (see SMITH G.W. Carvolth)   x   x Active c.1916                        
SMITH Cecil G   x   x                          
SMITH Charlotte Florence Pennington   x   x                          
SMITH Clara Eva J.     x     b.1887 - Birmingham, England   Painting: Watercolour   Exhibited: RSA (England)              
SMITH Clarise E   x   x                          
SMITH Constance Napier   x   x                          
SMITH Dorothy Seeley   x   x                          
SMITH E May   x   x                          
SMITH Edith Agnes           b.1867 - Halifax, NS d.1956 - Halifax, NS Painting: Watercolour     Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design (Halifax, NS); Boston Art Club; Chelsea School of Art (London, England) Member: NSSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SMITH Edith G   x   x                          
SMITH Elda M x     x   b.1919   Ceramics: Pottery             CHIN, File in Thunder Bay   Docs in S file
SMITH Eva   x   x                          
SMITH Eve R. (also Evelyn R. SMITH)     x   Active c.1933-35     Painting: Miniature Painting                  
SMITH Evelyn R   x   x                          
SMITH Freda Pemberton   x x     b.1902 - Westmount, QC d.1991 - Van Kleek Hill, ON Painting; Drawing: Commercial Illustrator     Studied: Monument National; Ecole des Beaux Arts; Slade School Member: CSPWC Society (1980). Exhibited: American Pastel Society Worked with Edmond Dyonnet Relative: Harriet Pemberton Smith (active and is very involved in sharing Freda Permberton Smith's work)      
SMITH Gertrude Euphemia (Effie)     x     b.1867 - Cumberland, ON d. 1960 - Guelph, ON Painting: Flower Painter; China Painting   Guelph, ON             She was very involved with her church St Andrews Church (Guelph, ON?). She did china painting up until WWII when dyes became unavailable to import from europe, when she turned to painting.
SMITH G.W. Carvolth   x   x Active c.1916                        
SMITH Jessie Wilcox       x Active c.1912     Drawing: Illustration                  
SMITH Marjorie (Jori) Elizabeth Thurston Palardy           b.1907 - Montreal, QC d.2005 Painting     Studied: AAM (Randolph Hewton and Edwin Holgate); Conseil des arts et manufactures (Joseph Saint-Charles and JY Johnstone) (Montreal); Ecole des beaux arts (Montreal); England; France. Member: Contermporary Arts Society; Eastern Group of Painters; Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts   Husband: Jean Palardy (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SMITH Kate Adeline   x   x   b.1878 d.1945 Painting     Studied: Southport School of Art (England); Calderon School of Animal Painting (W Frank Calderon, Edwin Noble and William Callow) (London) Member: BCSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
SMITH Kim x   x         Architecture                  
SMITH Mabel F   x   x Active c.1906     Painting: China Painting                  
SMITH Madge (E. Madge, Marjorie E. Smith, E. Marjorie)     x     b.1898 - Rye Sussex, England d.1974  - Fredricton, NB Photography British Worked: Fredricton, NB   Member: Maritime Art Association. Worked with Frank Pridham (Fredricton, NB)   CHIN, AGO    
SMITH Marianne Lee (see LEE-SMITH Marianne)   x   x   b.1872 d.(?)                    
SMITH Miss C Napier x     x   c.1939   Painting                  
SMITH Mrs G. Gregory       x Active c.1881     Design: Furniture Design?                  
SMITH Natalie C.     x         Architecture                  
SMITH Odric   x   x Active c.1916                        
SMITH Ottie   x   x                          
SMITH Rita           b.1918 - Wolfville, NS d.1996 - Halifax, NS Fibres: Basket Making First Nations. Mi'kmak               She was the first woman to be chief of a Mi'kmak group in Nova Scotia.
SMITH Velma B   x   x                          
SMITHSON Alison x   x         Architecture                  
SMOLLECK Kristine Frederickson       x Active c.1895                   Clara Lander    
SMYTH Norah L.           b.1899 - Montreal, QC d.(?) Painting                 Studied with Sheriff Scott and Amy Blanche Stone
SNAKE Mrs Elizabeth       x       Fibres: Basketweaving, Porcupine Quill   Chippewa, Muskoka, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
SNIDER H x x   x                          
SNOWBALL Jeanie (Jeannie)           b.1906 - Kujjuaq (Fort Chimo), QC c.1906 - Nunavik (Northern Quebec), QC Fibres: Textiles Inuit.               She invented the Ookpik a toy made from seal skin.
SOMERS Bettina     x     b.1904 - Summerland, BC d.(?) - Bloemfontein State of Orange South Africa Painting: Watercolour; Drawing                  
SOMERS Joan x x   x                          
SOMJEN Maria     x         Architecture                  
SORLEY Queenie Viola (see GILVERSON)   x x     b.1890 d.(?)                    
SPARKS Etta       x   b.1879 d.1917 Photographer                  
SPEIGEL Susan     x         Architecture                  
SPEIRS Doris Louise Huestis Mills     x     b.1894 - York (Toronto), ON d.1989 - Ajax, ON Painting British mother, Nova Scotian father ON Studied: The Normal School (Toronto); Havergal (Toronto); University of Toronto; University of Illinois Member: Art Gallery of Ontario ("life member") Exhibited with the Group of Seven in 1926. Showed with artist and friend Bess Houser and younger sister Marion Huestis Miller. Father: Archibald Morrison Huestis, Esquire (Canadian). Mother: Florence Gooderham Hamilton Huestis (Canadian). Husband (first): Wilfren Gordon Mills (artist) (married in 1916). Husband (second): Dr. J Murray Speirs (ornithologist) (married: 1939). Sister: Marion Huestis Miller.   Speirs, Doris Huestis Mills. "Excercise for Psyche: A Small Harvest of Poems (1922-1972)." (DHM Speirs, 1973); Hill, Charles C. "Group of Seven: art for a nation" (McClelland and Stewart, 1995) Greatly influenced by a Tom Thomson memorial exhibition (1920), she exhibited with the group of seven in 1930. Wrote 40 poems in a book called "Exercise for Psyche: A Small Harvest of
 Poems, 1922-1972" (1973). Translated a book of poetry by Lars von Haartman from Swedish into English, "The Forehead's Lyre" (1962).  Mentioned in "The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation" by Charles Hill (1995).  Became an ornithologist later in her life; there is a Doris Speirs award for academic ornithologists.
SPENCE Helen     x         Architecture                  
SPENCER F Muriel   x   x                          
SPENCER Mary           b.1857 - St. Catherines, ON d.1938 - West Summerland, BC Photography; Painting: China Painting Born in Ontario. She opened a photo studio in 1899 she was the only professional phtographer in kamloops                
SPENCER Miss Murray       x Active c.1912           Studied: Art Association (prize-winning students)            
SPENCER Myfawny (see PAVELIC Myfawny) x x   x   b.1916 d.2007                    
SPENDLOVE Sadie F   x   x                          
SPILSBURY Rebecca Mary (Maria) Ann (Mrs John Taylor)     x     b.1779 - St. Marylebone, London, England d.1820 - Dublin, Ireland Painting: Portrait, Religious British (born into a Moravian-Protestant home) introduced to Methodism in 1795. Ireland (1808) Studied: Johnathan Spilsbury (father)     Husband: John Taylor (married: 1808) National Gallery of Ireland, British Museum http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/view/people/asitem/items$0040null:2477/0?t:state:flow=1a9534da-ee0f-4d0d-84b8-8b9524018f31 (focused on detailed costumes and interiors - less concern over character description)        http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=maria+spilsbury
SPOONER Leslie G   x   x                          
SPOONER Ruby Young   x   x                          
SPRINGLE Evelyn   x   x Active c.1924                   AGO, MMFA    
SPROULE Anne     x         Architecture                  
SPURR Gertrude (see CUTTS Gertrude)   x   x   b.1858 d.1941                    
SQUIBBS Anna       x       Fibres: Lace, Point Lace   Moncton, NB           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
SQUIER Ethel       x       Fibres: Textiles, Weaving   BC           In Good Hands  
ST-AMOUR Madeleine       x Active c.1927           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
STADELBAUER Helen Barbara           b.1910 - Calgary, AB d.2006 - Calgary, AB Painting:Watercolour; Printmaking     Studied: Columbia University; Calgary Normal School; Banff School of Fine Arts (the Summer School of the Department of Education); State University of Iowa; Mount Allison University; Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (Calgary); Alberta College of Art (Calgary) Member: ASA   Sister: Isabel Stadelbauer   Prakash  
STADELBAUER Isabel Hazel           b.1909 - Calgary AB d.2004 - Calgary AB Drawing; Painting: Watercolour; Photography     Studied: Teacher's College (taught art to high school students)     Sister: Helen Stadelbauer      
STAGG Helen x x   x Active c.1919                        
STANISZKIS Joanna Katarzyna Kilkanska x x   x Active c.1944                        
STANKUS Edith (born Glanertas)       x   b.1925 d.1975 Painting     Studied: OCA (Mary Schneider, Graham Coughtry, and Gordon Peters) Member: OIP     CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008), 377.  
STANTON Fern   x   x                          
STARK Muriel E   x   x                          
STARON Genwefa (Genny)   x   x                          
STAROSTINA-TREYMANN Vera     x         Architecture                  
STARR Ruth   x   x   b.1903 d.1950 Painting             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio, and bio docs in S file
STAUNTON Helen   x   x                          
STEELE Helen Fitzgerald (see FITZGERALD Helen)   x   x Active c.1919                        
STEELE Mrs. R.W.   x   x Active c.1939                        
STEELE Sydney   x   x                          
STEEPLE Georgina Martha (see L'AUBINIERE)     x                            
STEER Cynthia     x         Architecture                  
STEGEMAN Francoise (see ANDRE Francoise)   x   x Active c.1926                        
STEIN Kate       x Active c.1927           Studied: Student at Ecole des Beaux Arts       CHIN (has a Catherine Stein), UBC (Has a Catherine Stein)   A Catherine Stein on CHIN whose file is at UBC but who is listed as living in Quebec. Medium "fashion design"
STEINE Selma       x Active c.1935           Studied: Ecole des Arts et Metiers            
STEINHOUSE Tobie Thelma           b.1925 - Montreal QC d.1979 Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Anne Savage (Montreal); Art Student's League (New York); Ecole des beaux-arts (Paris); Académie de la Grande Chaumière (Paris). Member: RCA; CGP; AANFM; ARCA; CSGA; PDCC; SAPQ; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
STEFFEN Doris Irene Droste     x         Architecture                  
STELTZER Ulli x         b.1923 - Frankfurt, Germany   Photography German. Immigrated to the USA 1953, Moved to Vancouver, BC (1972) Vancouver, BC (1972)     Friends with Bill Reid (photographed together)       Photographed with Bill Reid in Vancouver (c.1972)
STENNETT H.G.   x   x                          
STEPHENS Barabara H. x         b.1907 d.1996                    
STEPHENS Frances E   x   x                          
STEPHENSON Marjorie x     x Active c.1931                       Modelage "juste apres architecture"
STEVENS-O'HALLORAN Barbara (Barbara Holland Stephens)     x     b.1907 - Toronto, ON d.1996 Drawing: Artist's Illustrated Books; Painting; Photography         Illustrated books by Bloodwyn David        
STEVENS Dorothy (Dorothy Austin)           b.1888 - Toronto, ON d.1966 - Toronto, ON Painting; Printmaking     Studied: Slade School of Art (Wilson Steer) (London); Academie Colarossi (Paris); Academie de la Grande Chaumiere (Paris) Member: Chicago Society of Etchers; ARCA; HC; OSA; RCA; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
STEVENS Dorothy Walpole (see COPE Dorothy)   x   x Active c.1915                        
STEVENS Helen x   x   Active c.1947 b.1925 - Oshawa, ON   Painting: Watercolour   Exhibited: Riverside Musuem (New York, NY) (1947)     Exhibite at Riverside Museum (alongside; Dorothy Stevens, Mabel May, Pegi Nichol and others)        
STEVENSON Alice Hamilton   x   x Active c.1910                        
STEVENSON Edith (P?) (see WRIGHT)   x x     b.1885 d.1975                    
STEVENSON Margaret A   x   x                          
STEVENSON Marjorie S   x   x                          
STEWART Christine   x   x Active c.1910     Ceramics                  
STEWART Clair   x   x Active c.1910                        
STEWART Dorothy Linton   x   x Active c.1928                        
STEWART Ethel M.L.   x   x                          
STEWART Etta   x   x                          
STEWART Hilda Joyce Pocock     x     b.1892 - London, England d.1978 Painting: Miniature portraits British. Immigrated to Canada in 1921. SK (1921-48); Vancouver, BC (1948-78) Studied: Under her parents (England); England     Husband (first): John Hutcheson Stewart (married: 1921) (d.1933). Husband (second):Cecil Bell (married: 1964) (d. 1965).      
STEWART Isobel Grace     x         Architecture                  
STEWART MArjorie V   x   x                          
STEWART Miss   x   x                          
STEWART Pamela Dawes   x   x                          
STEWART Rosanna (see MACKLEAY Rosanna)   x   x   b.1887 d.(?)                    
STIKEMAN Annie   x x   Active c.1896-1906                        
ST-MICHEL Mlle R       x Active c.1908           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Metiers            
STOCKDILL Mrs. C. D.     x         Architecture                  
STOKVIS Betty (see BLACK, Betty)   x   x   b.1928 d.2006                    
STONE Amy Blanche   x x     b.1887 - Bristol, England d.(?) Painting: Watercolour; Printmaking: Etching British. Immigrated to Canada in 1914 (Montreal). Taught: Weston School for Girls Studied: Heatherley's (London, England); Weston School for Girls (Pricipal)            
STONE Mary A   x   x                          
STONE Rosaland   x   x                          
ST-ONGE Gabrielle       x Active c.1924           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures            
STORMS MAry   x   x                          
STRANG Margaret       x       Fibres: Basket Weaving   Goderich, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
STRATHY Marguerite   x   x                          
STRATTON Lily   x   x                          
STRATTON May   x   x Active c.1940                        
STREATFIELD Mabel Josephine     x   Active c.1879         London, England Studied: Crystal Palace Art School (London); Slade School (London) Member: OSA          
STRIPP-STEVENS Ethyl L     x     b.1873 d.1927 Watercolour                  
STRUTHERS Mrs. O. W.     x         Architecture                  
STUART Ethel M   x   x                          
STUART Mlle B       x Active c.1924           Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures            
STUBBS Eva Koves           b.1925 - Budapest, Hungary   Sculpture: Stone, Wood, Bronze and Clay; Ceramics. Hungrian. Canadian Citizen since 1944.   Studied: University of Manitoba (Cecil Richards) (1950's); influenced by Henry Moore Member: RCA; Site Gallery (key figure at the artist-run cooperative art gallery that existed 1995-2005 in the Exchance District)          
STUDENT OF Maria Morris ???       x Active c.1835     Painting: Watercolour               "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
STUEBING Jeanette Elizabeth x     x Active c.1901     Painting                  
STUPNIKOFF Agatha       x Active c.1921                   NGC    
STURDY Winifred Yvonne     x                            
STURN Pat           b.1910 - Romania d.2011 - Windsor, ON Photography Romanian. Immigrated to Canada in the early 1930's.                
SULLIVAN Beatrice   x   x                          
SULLIVAN Françoise x       Active c.2003 b.1925 - Montreal, QC   Dance: Choreography; Conceptual Art; Sculpture: Metalwork; Painting; Performance Art; Photography   Taught: Professor at Concordia University (Montreal, QC) Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal) Member: ASQ; Quebec Sculptors Association   Husband: Patterson Ewen (artist)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Associated with 'les automatistes' . signed the Refus Globale Manifesto 1948. received the Order of Canada 2001. .
SUMMER Miss       x                          
SUMNER Miss x x   x                          
SUNDAY Cecilia (Cecilia Cree)   x x     b.1919 - St-Regis, QC (some state she was born Akwesasne Indian Reserve in Ontario) d.2010 - Chenail, QC Fibres: Textiles, Basket Weaving; Design: Costume Design First Nations.       Worked and made baskets with her husband Jospeh B. Sunday Husband: Jospeh B. Sunday (artist)(married:1933)      
SUNDEEN Joy Ann     x         Architecture                  
SURCOUF Lorraine Joy x x   x Active c.1933                        
SURRIDGE Margaret M.     x         Architecture                  
SUTCLIFFE Erma Lennox       x   b.1908 d.1996 Painting             CHIN MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has biblio and bio. docs in S file
SUTHERLAND Elizabeth (Betty; Mrs. Irving Layton; Boschka Layton)   x x     b.1920 - Liverpool NS d.1984 - Guerneville, CA, USA Painting; Printmaking; Drawing   Big Sur, CA, USA Studied: Art Student's League (Harry Sternberg) (1942, New York)     Husband: Irving Layton (poet) (married: 1940's). Children: Max Layton, Naomi Layton     When her marriage ended with Layton 1960, she moved to California and lived on a commune in the Big Sur area. She painted under the name Boschka Layton for a while(a name she adopted when she converted to judaism when she married Layton).
SUTHERLAND Fanny   x   x                          
SUTHERLAND Florence M   x   x                          
SUTHERLAND Ida Margarite Dagmar Russell (May)     x     b.(?) - Norway d.1944 - Toronto, ON Drawing: Illumination, Book plate design; Printmaking: Etching Immigrated to Guelph as a child   Studied: OCA (AA Howard)           Designed her first illuminated address at 11.
SUTHERLAND Margaret D   x   x                          
SUTHERLAND Mrs Angus       x Active c.1895           Studied: Winnipeg School of Art            
SUTHERLAND MRs Louis   x   x                          
SVARRE Grace Cipparone   x   x Active c.1936                        
SWAN Annie L   x   x Active c.1920                        
SWANNELL Joyce       x Active c.1942                   UBC, NGC    
SWARTZMAN Roslyn Scheinfeld   x   x Active c.1931                        
SWEENY Frances BEatrice   x   x                          
SWEENY KAthleen (see LIEBICH KAthleen)   x   x   b.1892 d.(?)                    
SWEENEY Lillian J. Clarke     x     b.1886 - Winnipeg, MB d.1961 - Victoria, BC Sculpture: Woodcarving; Painting; Design: Costume Design, Decorative   Victoria, BC (where she had a studio for sculpture and costume design); 1922 opened a deco-arts studio produced; lampshades, wall scenes, plaster casts, decorate table runners, postcards, Studied: Fredric Hardegg (Hungarian artist living in Albany, NY who encouraged her
 talent); Sacred Heart Convent (Albany, NY); Mark Hopkins Art School (San Francisco, CA)
           
SWEEZEY Harriet Watson   x   x                          
SWEEZEY Mrs R.O.   x   x Active c.1925     Painting                  
SWEIDEN Regina       x                          
SYMINGTON Juanita LeBarre       x   b.1904 d.1980 Painting             Clara Lander, NGC, AGO   docs in S file
SYMONS Bessie Adelaide (born Fry)     x     b.1884 - Faringdon, Berkshire, England d.(?) Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1914 (Edmonton).   Studied: Art Student's Center (studied: Decorative Design) (New York) Member: BC Society of Artists; Canadian Painter Etchers; Fraser Valley Art Group (1940, President)          
SYMONS Nancy M   x   x Active c.1951     Drawing: Pastel                  
SZABLOWSKI Julie Anne Richard   x   x Active c.1932                        
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TAÇON (Tacon) Edna Jeanette           b.1913 - Milwaukee, WI, USA d.1980 - New York, NY, USA Painting     Studied: PH Tacon (husband); Univeristy of Toronto Member: OSA   Mother (adoptive): Mrs. Jane MacFarlane (Goderich, ON). Husband: PH Tacon (Taçon)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
TAGORNAK Letia Koonoo     x   Active c.1923                        
TAHEDL Ernestine x   x         Architecture First Nations                
TALBOT Mlle.A       x Active c.1908         Taught: Conseil des Arts et Metiers              
TANNER Doris Newland     x         Architecture                  
TANSLEY Pamela     x   Active c.1932-33                        
TARDIS Thérèse       x                         NDP benefit
TAYLOR Alice       x                     AGO, NGC, MMFA   "l'aptitude de l'œil féminin à saisir les variétés infinies et l'harmonie des tons"
TAYLOR Audrey     x     b.1903 - Toronto, ON d.1985 Painting; Sculpture   Taught: Children's Classes at the Art Gallery of Toronto (Toronto, ON);  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, QC) Studied: OCA; Art Sudent's League (Toronto); Central Technical School (Toronto)            
TAYLOR Jean     x     b.1899 d.1992 Architecture                  
TAYLOR Jocelyn (Mrs. Mitchell Roy)         Active c.1979 b.1899 - Toronto, ON d.1992 Painting: Acrylic, Gouache, Mural painting and decoration, Watercolour; Drawing: Pen and Ink; Design: Theater Design, Set Design   Toronto, ON (she made theater sets Hart House) Studied: Central Technical School (Toronto); OCA; Art Students League (George Bridgman) (New York) Member: ARCA; CSPWC; FCA; OSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
TAYLOR Kate Livingston     x   Active c.1920     Painting: Miniature on ivory   Exhibited: OSA (1920)              
TAYLOR Lila Caroline (see KNOWLES) x   x                            
TAYLOR Marguerite Judd (Mrs. Hilliard Taylor)     x     b.1886 - Paris, France d.1964 - Winnipeg, MB Sculpture: Bronze (Made 'Next-of Kin Monument' in Winnipeg, MB;  'La Canada' sculpture Prince Albert, SK (outside the law courts)) Came to Canada in 1906   Studied: Antoine Bourdelle (sculptor); Paris;            
TAYLOR Mrs George       x       Fibres: Textiles, Rug Hooking   PEI           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999). Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
TAYLOR Roberta Jane           b.1905 - Amherst, NS d.1990 - Amherst, NS Painting: Oil, Acrylic, Watercolour, Drawing: Pen and Ink, Draftswoman     Studied: Mount Allison Ladies College (Sackille, NB); New York School of Fine and Applied Arts (New York, NY); Art Student's League (New York, NY); Roerich Museum School  (New York, NY) Member: Amherst Art Association; Maritime Art Assocaition; Sackville Art Association         1940 she worked through WWII as a draftswoman, designing airplane parts (Canada Car and Foundry in Amherst).
TEEVEE Angotigolu (Angutiglu, Angitteegooloo Angotiguluk)         Active c.1910-1967     Drawing; Printmaking Inuit. Cape Dorset, NU   Contributed to the Cape Dorset, Annual Collective (1961, 1966)          
TENNYSON Laura Mitchell (Laura M. D. Mitchell) x   x     b.1883 - Halifax, NS d.1965 - Alhambra, CA, USA Painting: Miniatures on ivory First Nations   Studied: Art Student's League (Lucia Fairchild Fuller, Alice Beckington, Kenyon Cox and George Bridgman) (New York, NY) Member: California Society of Miniature Painters; Pasadena Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (Vice President); California Arts Club; West Coast Arts (Vice President)          
TESSIER Gaëtane x     x Active c.1927           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts (Prize Winning Student)            
TETRAULT Marcelle       x Active c.1932           Studied: Ecole des Beaux Arts            
TEVYASHOVA Katherine     x         Architecture                  
THEAKSTON Mrs. Albert     x     b.1877 - St Margarets Bay, NS   Painting: Watercolour, China                  
THÉRIAULT Maude     x         Architecture                  
THIBOUTAT Alida       x       Fibres: Textiles   St-Anne, QC           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
THLUNAUT Jennie (born Shax'saani Kéek)           b.1890 - Chilkat Territory, AK, USA d.1986 - Klukwan, AK, USA Fibres: Basketmaking, Embroidery, Textiles First Nations.                
THOMPSON Elizabeth       x Active c.1925           Studied: AAM (?)       AAM    
THORPE Ethel x     x   b.1881 d.1953                   Artist and Educator
THOMARAT Jeanne Aline           b.1893 - Lyon, France d.1985 - Rosthern, SK Painting; Design: Pattern Maker French. Immigrated to Canada in 1907. SK (1905-1914) Studied: France (Fashion Design)           started painting in 1960's
THOMAS Alice Blair (born Pollard)     x     b.(?) - Collingwood, ON d.1940 - Los Angeles, CA, USA Painting: Watercolour, Portrait   Toronto, ON (1904); Vancouver, BC (1916)              
THOMPSON Margaret Collins (born Duncan) x   x     b.1884 - Brooklyn, NY, USA   Painting, Watercolor Immigrated to Canada in 1921 (Montreal).     Member: AAM; Women's Art Society          
THOMPSON Mary Ellen (Mrs. Knowles)       x   b.1854 d.1890 Painting: Oil               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
THORNE Diana     x   Active c.1927-1929 b.(?) - Winnipeg, MB   Drawing; Printmaking: Etching came back to Canada after studies in 1912   Studied: Imperial Academy (Munich); Charlottenburg Technical College (Berlin) Member: Chicago Society of Etchers; California Print-Makers          
THORNTON Mildred Valley Stinson           b.1890 - Dresden, ON d.1967 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Oil, Watercolour     Studied: OCA (JW Beatty and G.A. Reid) (Toronto); Art Institute of Chicago Member: FRSA; SCPE;  Royal Society of Artists; Women's Art Association (Saskatchewan)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
THORNTON P.     x         Architecture                  
THORSON Mrs. S. x   x         Architecture                  
THRESHER Elizabeth W. (Eliza W. Morrison Thresher; Wilson Brooks; Brooks Morrison)           b.1788 - New York, NY, USA d.1865 - Montreal, QC Drawing; Painting: Watercolour   Art Teacher; George and Eliza Thresher had an art school in Montreal, QC (1816) of drawing and painting.           Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
TILLEY Elizabeth S       x Active c.1906                        
TIMMINS Mme Jules x     x Active c.1935     Painting                  
TODD Dorothy     x         Architecture                  
TOKARCHUK Anne       x   b.1912 d.1985             Possible Relative: Sharon Radioff Tokarchuk     Artist and Teacher
TORRANCE Elizabeth M.     x   Active c.1895     Painting: China Painting                  
TOUCHOT Léontide       x Active c.1907           Studied: Saint-Hyacinthe, QC (prize-winning student)            
TOWARD Lilias M.     x         Architecture                  
TOWERS Kathleen       x       Ceramics               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts
Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Wood, Eizabeth Wyn. “Canadian Handicrafts.” Canadian Art 2.5 (Summer 1945) (188)
 
TOWNSEND Jean     x     b.1921 - Etobicoke, ON d.2006 - Sharbot Lake, ON Painting:Watercolor; Printmaking     Studied: Art Gallery of Ontario (Arthur Lismer, Yvonne McKague and Doris McCarthy); OCA; Instituto Allende (Mexico)            
TOZER Marjorie (Marjorie Hughson Leefe Tozer)           b.1900 - Halifax, NS d.1959 - Chiswick, England Drawing: Book Illustration; Painting: Mural painting, Watercolour     Studied: Victoria School of Art and Design (Arthur Lismer) (Halifax, NS) Member: Nova Scotia Society of Artists       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
TRAILL Catherine Parr (born Strickland)           b.1802 - Rotherhithe, England d.1899 - Lakefield, ON Drawing; Painting British. Immigrated to Canada after marrying her husband in 1832.         Sister: Susanna Moodie. Niece: Agnes Fitzgibbons   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Has an extensive list of books that she wrote
TREMBLAY Mme. R x     x Active c.1925     Drawing?     Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures (Prize-winning drawing student)       CHIN (there is a Reborn for embroidery, and a Rose, born 1915, painter)    
TRENHOLME Florence x     x Active c.1897     Painting? Watercolor?                  
TREPANIER Rachel     x   Active c.1945-48     Sculpture                  
TREVOR Leslie       x   b.1907 d.1991 Design: Graphic Design             MMFA    
TREW Dora (Mrs. Stanley Trew - born Miss Dora Nimmons)     x   Active c.1926   1981 - Lethbridge, AB Painting: Watercolour               Trew, Dora S. 'Lethbridge has a Baronness' "Boats and Barges on the Belly" (Lethbridge, AB: Historical Society of Alberta, 1966) Reporter for the Lethbridge Herald until 1926. Wrote and aticle in "Boats and Barges on the Belly" 1995
TRUBIANO Franca     x         Architecture                  
TRUCHNOVSKY Rose       x   b.1910   Ceramics: Pottery             NGC, MMFA    
TRUDEAU Alice       x Active c.1925     Drawing (prize winning student)     Studied: Conseil des Arts et Manufactures (prize winning student)            
TUCKER Lillian (Lilian)     x   Active c.1896   d.1939 Painting   Westmount, QC (Montreal, QC)         MMFA    
TUCKER Lela St. George     x   Active c.1910-1931     Painting: Watercolour                  
TULLY Louise Beresford     x   Active c.1895-96     Woodworking, Leatherworking   Exhibited: Toronto, ON   Exhibited at the OSA (Applied and Decorative Arts 1900 exhibition)       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
TULLY Sydney Strickland           b.1860 - Toronto, ON d.1911 - Toronto, ON Painting; Drawing: Pastel     Studied: OSA (William Cruikshank) (Toronto); Slade Art School (London, England); Academie Julien (Paris, France); Academie Colarossi (Paris, France); William Merritt Chase (New York). Member: ARCA; OSA; RCA; 91 Club (London, England)   Related to Catherine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, and Agnes Fitzgibbon.   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
TUNNILLIE Ikayukta           b.1911 - Iqualuit (near Frobisher Bay), NU d.1980 - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Printmaking Inuit.                
TUNNILLIE Keeleemeeoomee x   x     b.1913 - Kamadjuak, NU d.(?) - Cape Dorset, NU Drawing; Printmaking First Nations. Lived in Ikarasak (Alaska, USA). Lived in camps for the majority of her
life, but had to move to Cape Dorset due to Samuellie's (her husband)
poor health
    West Baffin Eskimo Co-op   Fiance: Sakkeassie (with whom she had 2 children before his sudden death). Husband: Samuellie      
TURCOTTE Mlle J x     x Active c.1935     Sculpture?     Student: Prize-winning student (modelling)       NGC, CHIN   a Jocelyne Turcotte, in Québec in the 1990's
TURQUAND Helen Elizabeth     x   Active c.1885-1966     Painting First Nations. Hamilton, ON Studied: Toronto Technical School; St John's Wood School (London, England); OCA Member: Art Alliance of America          
TURNER Mme Allan       x Active c.1925                        
TURNER Florence       x Active c.1930                        
TUU'LUQ Marion (Tudluq; Tulluc)           b.1910 - Black River Delta, NU d.2002 - Baker Lake, NU Fibres: Textiles Inuit                
TYNG Anne Griswold     x         Architecture                  
TYRWHITT Jaqueline x   x         Architecture                  
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UHTHOFF Ina D. D. (born Jemima Duncan Dewar Campbell)           b.1889 - Loch Ericht, Kirn, Scotland d.1971 - Carleton Place, ON Painting; Printmaking; Drawing Scottish. Immigrated to Canada with her husband in 1913. Taught: Scotland; Art critic for the Victoria Daily Colonist. Established: Victoria School of Art (NS) Studied: Glasgow School of Art (Maurice Greiffenhagen) Member: FCA; FRSA; BC Society of Artists; Royal Society of Arts Friends with Katherine Maltwood. Helped to establish the Victoria School of Art     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
UPJOHN Anna Milo   x   x Active c.1928                        
URQUHART Katherine x x   x Active c.1935     Printmaking: Engraving                  
URSENBACH Jessie Redd       x Active c.1945 b.1895 d.1987               University of Calgary, Edmonton Art Gallery, MMFA    
V                                  
VALLANCOURT Josette   x   x                          
VAILLANCOURT Mlle L       x Active c.1927     Drawing                 aw, "exposition de dessin des écoles primaires"
VALE Florence (Florence Gertrude Vale Franck; Mrs. Albert Franck)           b.1909 - Ilford, Essex, England d.2003 - Toronto, ON Collage; Painting: Watercolour British. Immigrated to Canada in 1910 with her family.                
VAN ALSTYNE Thelma Salina Aylma       x   b.1913                 Edmonton Art Gallery, NGC, AGO, MMFA    
VAN BUSKIRK Caroline Ruth x x   x   b.1896 d.(?)                    
VAN BUREN Janeva     x         Architecture                  
VAN DER LINDE Louise   x   x                          
VAN DER LINDE Mrs H       x Active c.1896                   CHIN, MMFA    
VAN DER VOSSEN Ann   x   x                          
VAN EVERY Jane   x   x                          
VAN GINKEL Blanche Lemco           b.1923 - London, England   Architecture British Montreal, QC              
VAN STOCKUM Hilda   x   x Active c.1908                        
VAN TUYL Catherine x     x Active c.1935                   CHIN (Mrs. L. G. van Tuyl), MMFA    
VAN TUYL L.G. Mrs   x   x                          
VAN DEN BROECK Clemence   x   x Active c.1895 b.1843 d.1922 Painting; Goldsmithing; Ceramics Flemish. Immigrated to Canada 1895                
VANDERPOEL Emily Noyes   x   x   b.1843 d.1939                    
VANIER Mme Georges P.     x         Architecture                  
VANSTONE Zora Sharp   x   x                          
VARLEY Joyce     x         Architecture                  
VASS Isa M   x   x                          
VAUGHAN Mrs. O. D.     x         Architecture                  
VAUTELET Reborn   x   x Active c.1934                   MMFA    
VAUX Emma Plimsall   x   x                          
VECSEI Eva     x         Architecture                  
VENABLES Alice Maud     x     b.1876 - Staffordshire, England d.1969 - Penticton, BC Painting British. Immigrated to Canada in 1906.     Member: Vancouver Art Club          
VENNE Mme Francoise       x       Fibres: Textiles, Braided Weaving       Exhibited: Canadian Handicrafts Guild (1905, 1907 exhibitions)       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
VERA Virginia De       x Active c.1959                   CHIN (Vriginia Vera), MMFA    
VERMES Agnes     x         Architecture                  
VERMETTE Mariette (see ROUSSEAU Mariette)   x   x Active c.1926                        
VERNON Mary (see MORGAN Mary)   x   x                          
VERONIQUE Soeur (born Virginie Dion)           b.1854 - St-Roche, QC d.1939 Painting   Was a nun at Monastere du Precieux-Sang (St-Hyacinthe, QC) Studied: Ozias Leduc (his first pupil) (Monastery)            
VERRAL Minnie Olive Belcher     x     b.1873 - BC   Painting                  
VERRAULT-LAPOINTE Gisele x x   x                          
VETRA Maiga     x         Architecture                  
VICAJI Dorothy Elaine   x x     b.1880 - London, England d.1945 - Palm Beach, FL, USA Painting: Portrait                  
VICKERS Henrietta Moodie   x   x               Exhibited: OSA (1900 Applied and Decorative Arts Exhibition)       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999).  
VIGNEAU Marguerite   x   x                          
VINEBERG Louise   x   x Active c.1924                        
VIROLLE Helen     x   Active c.1924-25     Painting   Taught: at l'Ecole des Beaux Arts (painting and drawing)              
VLETTER Fiona De   x   x Active c.1927                        
VOGEL Barbara     x         Architecture                  
VON DER OHE Katie (see OHE Dorothy Katie)   x   x Active c.1937                        
VOYER Monique   x   x Active c.1928                        
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WADE Lorraine Rioux     x         Architecture                  
WAINWRIGHT Ruth Salter           b.1902 - North Sydney, NS d.1984 - NS Painting: Watercolour; Drawing; Mixed Media     Studied: Halifax Ladie's College (Edith Smith); Hans Hofmann's Provincetown School (1953)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WAISMAN Tania     x         Architecture                  
WAITE Emily Burling x x   x   b.1887 d.(?)                    
WAKE Margaret Eveline   x x     b.1867 - London, England d.1930 - Vancouver, BC Painting British. Immigrated to Vancouver 1911.   Studied: Slade School Member: British Columbia Society of Fine Arts; Vancouver Sketch Club         Involved with the Women's Suffrage movement in England.
WALKER Vivian       x Active c.1948                   NGC, AGO   Vivian Maude, or Vivian June?
WALDROP Gwendolyn (see MEWS)     x                            
WALES Jeannnette   x   x                          
WALES Shirley   x   x Active c.1931                        
WALFORD Dorice C.     x         Architecture                  
WALKER Elizabeth   x   x                          
WALKER Ella May Jacoby     x     b.1892 - Windom, MN, USA d.1960 - Edmonton, AB Painting   Edmonton, AB (1920); Travelled to Mexico in 1937 (visited Diego Rivera, and was greatly influenced by the artwork she saw in Mexico) Studied: University of Saskatchewan; Chicago Art Institute (1911); Northwestern University (Public School Music Methods) Member: Alberta Society of Artists; Edmonton Art Club; Alberta Society of Art (President) Friend of Diego Rivera     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WALKER Jessie (see AITCHISON-WALKER Jessie)   x   x                          
WALKER Vivian   x   x                          
WALLACE Agnes Pringle       x Active c.1840     Fibres: Textiles, Embroidery   St Thomas, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Harper, J. Russell. "A People's Art: Primitive, Naïve, Provincial and Folk Painting in Canada" (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1974)  
WALLACE Carolyn     x         Architecture                  
WALLACE Ethelyn     x         Architecture                  
WALLBRIDGE Jean L.           b.1912 - Edmonton, AB d.1979 - Edmonton, AB Architecture                  
WALLIS Constance C   x   x                          
WALLIS Katherine Elizabeth x         b.1861 d.1957 Sculpture     Studied: RCA (Stephen Webb) (London, England); Academie Colarossi (Paris, France) Member: Societe Nationale des beaux-arts (elected) (Paris)       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WALLIS Miss   x   x   b.1860 - Peterborough, ON d.1957 - Santa Cruz, CA, USA Sculpture; Painting: Watercolour     Studied: London; Edinburgh; Paris; Dresden; Italy            
WALT Miss x x   x Active c.1888     Design: Interior Decoration     Studied: Toronto School of Art and Design (Department of design and interior decoration)            
WALTER Mrs       x                          
WARD Florence E   x   x Active c.1904                   AGO, MMFA    
WARD, Kathleen (Kitty) Louise (born Campbell)       x   b.1902 d.1988 Painting     Studied: Bishop Strachan School  (Mary Wrinch Reid) (Toronto); Central Technical School (FS Challener, Sam Finaly and William Graham) (Toronto); OCA (JW Beatty, GA Reid, Arthur Lismer, FH Varley and AY Jackson) Member: CSGA; HC; PDCC       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WARDELL Dorothy Wilma   x   x Active c.1910                        
WARDROPE Mary Jane   x   x                          
WARKOV Esther         Active c.1941                        
WARNING Maria Beck       x   b.1832 d.1918 Fibres: Textiles, Rug Making   Brunner, Perth County, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts
Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Bird, Michael S. and Terry Kobayashi. "A Splendid Harvest: Germanic folk and decorative Arts in Canada" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981)
 
WARREN Agnes Veronica Ketter x x x   Active c.1903 b.(?) - St Albert, SK   Painting                  
WARREN Alexandra   x   x                          
WARREN E.L.   x   x                          
WARREN Emily Mary Bibbens   x x     b.1869 - Exeter, Devon, England d.1956 (*1930?) - Dunrobin, ON Painting: Watercolour (She was best known for painting architectural monuments in Europe) British. Immigrated to Canada in 1919.   Studied: John Ruskin (his last student) Member: RA; RBA Friends with John Ruskin   CHIN Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009). has reviews and a very extensive bio
WARREN Mary T. S. Schäffer           b.1861 - Philadelphia, PA, USA d.1939 - Jasper, AB Painting: Botanical; Photography           Father: Wealthy quaker and an avid naturalist     her faather encouraged her art making
WATERBURY Catherine       x Active c.1895-98                        
WATKINS Margaret x   x     b.1884 - Hamilton, ON d.1969 - Glasgow, Scotland Photography     Studied: under her uncle; Clarence White School (ME) Member: Pictorial Photographers of America (VP); Glasgow and West of Scotland Photographic Association; Art Center (New York)          
WATSON Ada Lou     x         Architecture                  
WATSON Dortha Elizabeth x     x   b.1902   Photography             CHIN    
WATSON Edith           b.1861 - East Windsor Hill, CT, USA d.1943 - FL, USA Photography; Painting: Watercolour Came to Canada to travel in 1896   Studied: Sereno Watson (her uncle who taught photography at Harvard).   Worked with close friend Victoria Hayward (Also known as 'Queenie' - a Bermudian journalist). They wrote a book together: "Romantic Canada" (1922). She also exhibited and worked with her sister Amelia Sister: Amelia (Artist)   Hayward, Victoria, and Edith S. Watson. "Romantic Canada." (Toronto: MacMillan, 1922) Came to Canada to travel in 1896, and spent the next 35 years photographic the country and rural life.
WATSON Eloise       x Active c.1881     Painting: Watercolour             CHIN and MMFA (have an Eloise Weston, possibly a typo)   "Watercolours by amateurs, flowers and fruits" James and Eloise Watson are both exhibiting things at 129 Cadieux Street, 1st.
WATSON Genevieve x x   x                          
WATSON Grace   x   x                          
WATSON Miss   x   x                          
WATSON Patricia   x   x                          
WATSON Phoebe Amelia     x     b.1858 - Doon, ON d.1947 - Kitchener, ON Painting: China Painting (Painted some of the china presented to Lord and Lady Aberdeen),  Portrait   Curator of the Watson Art Gallery in Doon, ON              
WATSON Susan   x   x Active c.1949                        
WATSON Winnifred   x   x                          
WATTERSON Grace Margaret Victoria   x   x Active c.1906                        
WATTIER Mme J       x Active c.1913                       "artiste fort renommée"
WATTS Ella   x   x Active c.1892-1900     Painting   Studio in Montreal, QC (1898) Studied: Colarossi Academy (Paris, France) Exhibited: Had her painting "A Garden in Bavaria" at a Paris Salon (1892); Montreal, QC; RCA          
WATTS Etta (born Fullerton) (Mrs. W.H. Watts)     x                            
WAY Annie M   x   x                          
WAY Evelyn   x   x Active c.1923     Ceramics                  
WEAGANT Mrs Allen   x   x                          
WEATHERBIE Vera Olivia Mortimer (Lamb)           b.1909 - Vancouver, BC d.1977 - Vancouver, BC Painting: Watercolor; Drawing   Vancouver, BC; Modelled for FH Varley at the Vancouver School of Art; Staff BC College of Art (1933) Studied: Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts; Royal Academy (London) Member: BCSFA   Husband: Harold Mortimer Lamb (art critic, photographer)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) Greatly influenced by F.H. Varley
WEAVER Miss       x Active c.1897     Drawing: Illustration             CHIN, MMFA (have several Weavers)    
WEBBER Castel x     x Active c.1925     Jewelry Making                 "expose plusieurs pendentifs en grès, aux formes empruntées aux anciens bijoux égyptiens"
WEBER Anna           b.1814 - PA, USA d.1888 - Waterloo County, ON (Upper Canada) Drawing; Fibres: Embroidery, Textiles; Painting: Fraktur, Painting Pennsylvania-German Mennonite. Immigrated to Waterloo County in 1825.             McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); Bird, Michael S. and Terry Kobayashi. "A Splendid Harvest: Germanic folk and decorative Arts in Canada" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981) ; Good, Edgar Reginald. "Anna's Art: The Fraktur Art of Anna Weber, a Waterloo County Mennonite Artist, 1814-1888." (Kitchener: Pochauna Publications, 1976) ; Harper, J. Russell. "A People's Art: Primitive, Naïve, Provincial and Folk Painting in Canada" (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1974); Patterson, Nancy-Lou. "Anna Weber hat das gemacht: Anna Weber (1814-1888) - a fraktur painter of Waterloo County, Ontario." Mennonite Life  30.2 (1975): 15-9  
WEBER Kathleen (Kay) Murray (born Nichol)   x   x   b.1919 d 2002 Printmaking     Studied: OCA (Jock Macdonald, John Alfsen and Fred Hagan) Member: ALC; ARCA; OSA; PDCC; SCPE       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WEBSTER Adelaide De Lally x   x   Active c.1926-33     Painting: Watercolour; Drawing   Exhibited in Montreal, QC              
WEBSTER Brenda     x         Architecture                  
WEBSTER Charlotte B   x   x                          
WEBSTER Jessie           b.1909 d.(?) Fibres: Basketmaking First Nations. Ahousat, BC Studied:  Nellie Jacobson (Basketmaking)            
WECHSLER Dora Harris   x   x   b.1897 d.1952                    
WEETALUKTUK Lucy (WEET, Lucy; Weetaltuk, Jeannie) x   x     b.1923 - Inoucdjouac, QC   Fibres: Basketmaking Inuit.                
WEINCH Miss   x   x                          
WEINER Deborah     x         Architecture                  
WEININGER Sylvia (see SINGER Sylvia)   x   x Active c.1930                        
WEIR Mlle       x                         Undated. It says "Aide à la France" so it's likely to be during WWI. But Elena Zebrauskaite-Weir was born in 1919
WEIR Winnifred   x   x                          
WELD Helen       x   b.1904 d.1996 Painting             CHIN, AGO, NGC MacDonald, Colin S "Dictionary of Canadian Artists" (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2009) Has reviews and extensive bio. In catalogues, retrospectives.
WELDON R.L.   x   x                          
WELDON Susan     x     b.(?) - Windsor, NS   Painting: China Painting                  
WELLS Mrs Farley       x Active c.1900     Woodwork: Wood Carving   Franktown, ON         National Museum of Man Archives (CCFS) McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999)  
WENTWORTH Lorna       x Active c.1913     Painting                  
WERKER Lynne     x         Architecture                  
WERNER Charlotte   x   x Active c.1944                        
WESCHLER Dora   x   x   b.1897 d.1952 Woodwork   Toronto, ON             Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
WESTINCOTT Miss       x Active c.1888     Design: Interior Decoration     Studied: Toronto School of Art and Design (Department of Design and Interior Decoration with Miss Westincott)            
WESTMACOTT Miss E. K.   x x   Active c.1885     Painting     Studied: Associated Artists School of Art and Design Exhibited: OSA (1885); Canadian Exhibit of the Australian Exhibition, Women's Work 1907       McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999) Coronation Gift to Queen Mary
WESTMORELAND Lady     x     b.(?) - Brympton House, England d.1857   British. Arrived in New York 1838, and then arrived in Charlottetown October 1839. Went back to england 1840 (due to lord westmorlands failing health).       Patron to artists: Frederick Catherwood and Severn Husband: John Fane, Lord Westmorland the 10th earl of Westmorland (married: 1800) WAS SHE EVEN AN ARTIST??? See: "Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island: Imperial Dreams and the Defense of Property" by Rusty Bittermand and Margaret McCallum (2008) Caroline Princess of Whales, called her "perpetual motion"  she was very
 witty and smart, but was constantly called an eccentric. Her daughter Evelina died in 1810 , and in conjunction with other events she stabbed herself in the side with a knife and was deemed mad by the doctor. she was isolated for 5 weeks. went to an asylum in Fulham (suburb of London, England). she denied that she was ever mad. in 1812 she signed a separation agreement from her husband. she began sociallizing with the artistic set in london (lord byron often a guest). lived in paris, geneva, london, milan, florence, rome. Became a promoinent landlord in Charlottetown, P.E.I and was generous in her financial support to the community
WESTON Ellen Winifred     x     b.1889 d.1978 - Burnaby, BC Painting: Watercolour; Fibres: Embroidery Immigrated to Canada in 1920 (Vancouver) Vancouver, BC Studied: Under her father           During the depression she worked at an Arts and Crafts shop on Granville street in Vancouver. She embroidered on coats that were sold at the Hudson Bay and cared for Mrs. Alie Langford (one of Canada's first professional artists)
WESTON Eloise   x   x                          
WESTON Julia   x   x                          
WHEELER Alice A   x   x                          
WHEELER Dora       x Active c.1884                       "a coloured study of exquisite design"
WHISTON Eleanor       x   b.1832 d.1911 Painting: Watercolour               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
WHITE Josephine H.J.   x   x                          
WHITE Lyn   x   x                          
WHITE Margaret E   x   x                          
WHITE Miss Ray   x   x Active c.1895     Ceramics: "a tile for a teapot stand"               http://cwahi.concordia.ca/inputReviews/reviewsPDFs/A1895Mar7MS_1.pdf  
WHITEHEAD Amy Mosher   x   x                          
WHITEHEAD Jean Valerie Elizabeth   x   x                          
WHITNEY Elizabeth   x x   Active c.1876-98     Painting: China Painting, Ceramic, Glass   Montreal, QC; She taught China and Glass Painting (possibly at Victoria School of Art) Studied: Victoria School of Art         McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999)  
WHITTOME Irene   x   x Active c.1942                        
WHITTON Grace   x   x                          
WHYTE Catherine Robb     x   Active c.1927 b.1906 - Boston, MA, USA d.1979 - Banff, AB Painting   Banff, AB - started Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies with husband, Peter White Studied: School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)     Husband: Peter Whyte (painter)   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); (http://www.whyte.org/about/)  
WHYTE Ethel A   x   x                          
WICKENDEN Helen Stack   x   x   b.1887 d.(?)                    
WICKENDEN Margaret Robertson   x   x Active c.1915                        
WIELAND Joyce   x   x   b.1930 d.1998                    
WIGHT Isobel   x x   Active c.1922     Painting                  
WILCOX Georgie Crawford     x     b.1889 - Winnipeg, MB d. 1970 - Winnipeg, MB Painting: Oil, Watercolour; Drawing: Pastel   Winnipeg, MB; Peterborough, ON (1955) Studied: Winnipeg School of Art (AJ Musgrove); Queen's University (Kingston, ON); Banff School of Fine Arts (AY Jackson) Member: Winnipeg Winter Club; Winnipeg Sketch club; Manitoba Society of Artists; Federation of Canadian Artists   Husband: Buell Wilcox (married: 1909). Children: A M Wilcox (Winnipeg, MB), J Phillip Rowland (Toronto)      
WILDE Margaret     x         Architecture                  
WILDMAN Sally   x   x   b.1939                      
WILKES Barbara F   x   x                          
WILKES Elizabeth   x   x Active c.1937                        
WILKES Maud   x   x                          
WILKIE Marion E   x   x                          
WILKIE Maud   x   x                          
WILKINS Louisa A   x   x                          
WILKINSON Caroline (see ARMINGTON Caroline)   x   x   b.1875 d.1939                    
WILKINSON Mrs. L.     x   Active c.1870     Painting: Flower Painting   Fredricton, NB Studied: (?) Maria Miller (NB)       University of New Brunswick has a set of 27 watercolors of flowers indigenous to New Brunswick, they were done in 1870 and presented to the wife of Bishop Medley.    
WILLARD Ernva A   x   x                          
WILLIAMS Dorothy MAy Bentley   x   x                          
WILLIAMS Ellis     x         Architecture                  
WILLIAMS Eva (see DONLY Eva)   x   x   b.1867 d.1941                    
WILLIAMS Ilsa Julia Clara     x         Architecture                  
WILLIAMS M Bertha   x   x                          
WILLIAMS Madeline Thomas       x   b.1840 d.1931 Fibres: Porcupine quills, Spruce Root; Sculpture: Wood First Nations. (Mi'kmaq)             In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI) http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/168896-enders-expresses-the-wildness-of-a-chosen-place-by-the-sea
WILLIAMS Margaret Adelaide   x   x Active c.1902                        
WILLIAMS Mary (see DIGNAM Mary)                                  
WILLIAMS Olga M.     x         Architecture                  
WILLIAMS Sarah H x x   x                          
WILLIAMS Yvonne           b.1901 - Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago d.1997 - Parry Sound, ON Painting: Glass Painting, Stained Glass British parents who had been living in Canada prior to her birth in Trinidad and Tobago. Entered Canada in 1918.   Studied: OCA (1922 - Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley, JEH MacDonald and Grace Coombs (who encouraged her to stay at OCA and study fine art metal and glass) ) Member: RCA; Royal Architectural Institute of Canada          
WILLIAMSON Betty L.           b.1916 - Ottawa, ON d.2003 Drawing: Fashion Illustrator ; Printmaking; Photography; Commercial Artist; Photographer; High-fashion promoter     Studied: Ottawa University; Ontario College of Art; Mexico; San Francisco         Williamson, B.L. "Reflections of the Fungaloids" (Almonte, ON: Algrove Publishing, 2002)  
WILLIAMSON Catherine M x     x Active c.1951                       Kahane in the same catalogue. // dates?
WILLIAMSON Effie G. x x   x Active c.1910                   MMFA    
WILLIAMSON Eleanor   x   x                          
WILLIAMSON Margaret H       x Active c.1922                   MMFA    
WILLINGS Janet     x         Architecture                  
WILLIS Dorothy Gwendolyn Henzell   x x     b.1899 - Newcastle, England d.(?) Painting: Oil, Watercolour (Painted Landscape, totem poles, and indian studies) British. Immigrated to Evanston, IL where she started school.  Moved to Edmonton, AB 1910-12 Edmonton, AB (c.1910-12); Vancouver, BC (c.1946) Studied: Banff School of fine Art (AC Leighton); Chicago; Seattle; University of Alberta; Columbia University (courses in art, drawing, painting) (New York City) Member: Edmonton Art Club (President); ANSA. Exhibited: Montreal, QC; Vancouver, BC (1930's)   Husband: C.D. Willis (Bumbles) (married: c.1918) (principal of the school that she had attended as a child)     she was sickly child who missed a lot of school due to it
WILLIS Grace A.     x     b.1884 - England d.(?) - Kelowna, BC Painting: Watercolour British. Immigrated to Kelowna in 1909.   Studied: England     Sister: G H E Hudson (Photographer; Okanagan, BC)      
WILLIS Rosa (Rose) MacDonald   x x     b.1885 - Newport, Scotland d.1960 - Victoria, BC Painting: Flower Scottish. Immigrated to Victoria with her husband William Arthur Willis in 1913.     Member: Arts and crafts Society of Vancouver Island; Victoria Sketch Club; Business and Professional Women's Club          
WILSON Barbara (Elizabeth or Belle)     x                            
WILSON Dorothy E   x   x                          
WILSON Ethel     x         Architecture                  
WILSON Joanna Simpson     x     b.1896 - Invergordon, Scottish Highlands, Scotland d.1987 Painting Scottish Alert Bay, BC (1919-1923); Surrey,  BC (1974) Studied: Edinburgh College of Art (graduated 1918)     Husband: Dr. George Hudson Wilson (married 1918). Major in the Canadian Army Medical Corps in WWI, worked at Columbia Coast Mission in the Hospital at Alert Bay, B.C.     She was fascinated with native culture (paints Kwakiutl ceremonial life,
 and copied paintings of 1920's native artists : Charlie James, Mungo
Martin, and Arthur Shaugnessy).
WILSON Lois     x         Architecture                  
WILSON Margaret Ethelreda   x   x Active c.1936                   NGC, AGO    
WILSON Ruth T   x   x                          
WILSON Valerie     x         Architecture                  
WINCHELL Elizabeth Amelia (Mrs. Frank Winchell) born Emerson     x     b.1865 - Diamond Bluff, Pierce, WI, USA d.1966 - Water Vallery, AB Painting   Water Valley, AB (near Carstairs) (1904) Studied: she took a taxidermy course by correspondance and mounted trophies for big game hunters (near Carstairs, AB)     Husband (first): Judd Williams (d. c.1900). Husband (second): Frank Winchell (married: 1904)      
WINDEAT Emma S.   x x   Active c.1884 b.(?) - Brockville, ON d.1926 (*1922) Painting: Watercolour   Toronto, ON (1930) Studied: Toronto Art School (Harris, Cruikshank, Perre, Fraser, O'Brien); New York (Irving Wilson, W Chase and Ranger) Member: OSA; RCA          
WING Therese   x   x Active c.1895     Painting: Miniatures on Ivory                 "has a fine group of miniatures, painted on ivory, exquisitely soft in finish and true in tone"
WINSLOW Marjorie Scarth   x   x Active c.1907                        
WISELBERG Fanny   x x     b.1906 - Montreal, QC d.1986 - Montreal, QC Drawing; Painting   Montreal, QC              
WISELBERG Lina   x   x                          
WISELBERG Rose   x x     b.1908  - Montreal, QC d.1992 - Montreal, QC Painting Anglophone Westmount, QC Studied: Ecole des beaux-arts (Montreal, QC)     Sister: Fanny Wiselberg   Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WISNICKI Catherine Chard         Active c.1919 b.(?) - Winnipeg, MB   Architecture   Montreal, QC; Toronto, ON              
WISWELL Elizabeth       x   b.1842 d.1914 Painting: Watercolour               In "On a Path to Learning: Early Nova Scotian Women Artists" exhibition catalogue (available at CWAHI)  
WITHROW Ada Leslie (Eva) x   x     b.1862 d.1939 Painting: Oil, Watercolour; Drawing: Crayon, Pencil   New Westminster, BC; San Francisco, CA, USA; opened an art studio in Victoria, BC (1883) Gave lessons to young ladies in oil and watercolor painting, crayons and pencil drawings. Taught the Carr children     Taught the Carr children Husband: M. Harrington Ellis      
WOLFF Andréa     x         Architecture                  
WOLFFEL Lilo R   x   x                          
WOLINSKY Eva   x   x Active c.1925                        
                                   
WOOD Candance   x   x                          
WOOD Elizabeth Wyn (Mrs. Emanuel Hahn)           b.1903 - Orillia, ON d.1966 - Willowdale, ON Sculpture   VP of Canada Council of the Arts; Taught at Central Technical School in Toronto, ON Studied: OCAD; Art Student's League (Robert Laurent and Edward McCarten) (New York, NY); OCA (Emanuel Hahn, Arthur Lismer, and JEH MacDonald) Member: Sculptors Society of Canada (founder); Canadian Guild of Potters; ARCA; CHG; FCA; RCA; SSC Founded Sculptors Society of Canada with Hahn, Frances Loring, Florence Wyle, Henri Hebert and Alfred Howell     McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
WOOD Faith (Faith Wood Breen, Mildred Faith Wood )   x x x   b.1917 - Devon, England d.2005 - Toronto, ON Painting; Design: Costume Design (Ice Capades, after WWII) British. Immigrated to Canada  1919   Studied: Mount Allison University (Alex Colville) (Sackville, NB) Member: HC; SCA   Husband: Melwyn Breen (reporter for Saturday Night). Sister: Mary Laura Wood (acctress b.1924). Great, Great Grandfather : Richard John Uniacke (Attorney General of Nova Scotia from 1797-1830). Grandfather: Josiah Wood (one of the first graduates of Mount Allison University and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick) CHIN , MMFA, NGC, AGO Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008); http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/faith-wood-breen/article702289/?service=print docs in W file,
WOOD Helen x   x   Active c.1930 b.(?) - Orilia, ON   Painting: Watercolour   NS; Bermuda              
WOOD Mary E   x   x                          
WOOD Mrs. C. R.     x         Architecture                  
WOOD Sally Elizabeth (Sally Eliza)           b.1857 - Brome Township, QC d.1928 Photography   Knowlton, QC (opened her own studio, 1899) Studied: William Notman (worked as his apprentice)            
WOOD Virginia H.W. (Virginia Hargraves Goddard)   x   x   b.1873 d.1941               CHIN, MMFA   docs in W file
WOODALL I. x     x Active c.1930's     Sculpture: Paper   Toronto, ON           McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999); Waddington's Auction Catalogue (November 9-11, 1981)  
WOODFORDE M.L.   x   x                          
WOOD-HAHN Quennefer     x         Architecture                  
WOODHEAD Dora Kelsey   x   x Active c.1916                        
WOODHOUSE Edith   x   x Active c.1895                   MMFA    
WOODMAN Florence   x   x                          
WOODS Emily Henrietta     x   Active c.1852-1916 b.(?) - Ireland   Painting   BC             File with Dr. Huneault
WOODWARD Barbara     x   Active c.1940s b.1887 - England d.(?) - Royal Oak, Victoria, BC Painting: Animal Portrait; Drawing:Wild Life Drawing British. Immigrated to Canada in 1936 (Victoria, BC). England; Africa; Scandinavia; Canada Studied: Doncaster Academy of Painting (W Edwin Tindall) (England); London Zoo (studied animal anatomy) Member: FCA; Zoological Society of London (Fellow) Friends with Katharine Maltwood     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) she became a respected authority in bird and animal behavior. travelled to Africa, Iceland, Norway (Spitzbergen),  Arctic to study and draw wildlife. Painted canvases of big game animals which decorated the Princess Patricia and Princess Marguerite (hotels?)
WOODWARD Gwladys L.     x     b.1885 - Beckford, Glouchestershire, England d. 1978 - Victoria, BC Painting British   Studied: Southpark School (her early education) (Victoria) Member: IAC (Founding Member: 1910-1941)          
WOOLNOUGH Hilda M   x   x   b.1934 d.2007                    
WORLING Vera (see KOCHANSKI Vera)   x   x Active c.1928                        
WRANGEL Natacha   x   x Active c.1920                        
WRANGLE Geraldine (see MAJOR Geraldine)   x   x Active c.1901                        
WRIGHT Edith Stevenson     x     b.1883 - Youngstown, Ohio, USA d.1975 - Thornhill, ON Painting: Portrait   Exhibited: William Shaus Gallery (New York, NY, USA) Studied: Central Ontario School of Art and Design (1896); Apprentice to JWL Forster; Art Students League (Kenyon Cox) (New York, NY)     Children: Dare Wright (artist, photographer, author)   Nathan, Jean "The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright" (Picador, 2005)  
WRIGHT Evelyn E       x Active c.1942                   CHIN (has Evelyn R from New Brunswick-possibly a typo)    
WRIGHT Geraldine Robinson     x     b.1877 - St Thomas, ON d.1969 - England Painting: Watercolour   Toronto, ON (1935)              
WRIGHT Mary       x       Woodwork               McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999)  
WRINCH Mary E. (Mary Evelyn Reid; Mrs. G. A. Reid)           b.1877 - Kirby-le-Soken, England d.1969 - ON Painting: China Painting, Miniatures; Printmaking; Drawing   Exhibited: Society of Arts and Crafts of Canada (1904) Studied: Laura Muntz Lyall; Central Ontario School of Art (GA Reid) (Toronto, ON); Art Students League (New York, NY) Member: ARCA; HC; OSA; SCPE   Husband: G A Reid   McLeod, Ellen Mary Easton. "In Good Hands: The Women of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild." (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1999)  
WYERS Jan Gerrit   x   x   b.1888 d.1973                    
WYLD (or WYLDE) x x   x                          
WYLDE Theresa Victoria     x   Active c.1897-1921 b.1870 - Newcastle, England d.1949 Painting: portrait British. London, England; Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC (She taught at Victoria Night school during the second world war); India; Studied: Slade School (London, England) Member: Islands Arts and Crafts Society          
WYLE Florence           b.1881 - Trenton, Illinois d.1968 Sculpture   IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; ON Studied: Art Institute of Chicago (Charles J Mulligan) (Chicago, IL) Member: ARCA; OSA; RCA; SSC (founder) Lifelong companion of fellow sculptor Frances Loring; they both studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Founded Sculptors Society of Canada with Emanuel Hahn, Elizabeth Wyn Wood, Frances Loring, Henri Hébert and Alfred Howell.     Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008) published a book of poetry
Y                                  
YANE Lillie x x   x                          
YEP Molly Yim Lei     x         Architecture                  
YOUNG Etta N   x   x                          
YOUNG Helen Granger     x     b.1923 - Toronto, ON d.(?) - Winnipeg, MB Sculpture: Porcelain, Bronze; Painting; Drawing: Pastels             CHIN, CARFAC, UBC, VAG, WAG, NGC, AGO, MMFA, HPL http://www.carfac.mb.ca/profile/hgranger  
YOUNG Miss   x   x                          
YOUNGER Piercy (see PORTEOUS Piercy)   x x   Active c.1907                        
Z                                  
ZACK Badanna Bernice   x   x   b.1933                      
ZARNOWER Teresa   x   x                          
ZEBRAUSKAITE-WEIR Elena       x   b.1919 - Lithuania d.1995 Sculpture; Painting             CHIN   doc in XYZ file
ZIEGLER Anne Alberta (born Jaffray)           b.1896 - Toronto, ON d.1981 - Oakville, ON Painting: Oil ; Printmaking     Studied: F McGillivray Knowles, JW Beatty and Franz Johnston (Toronto, ON)         Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)  
ZIMMERMAN Idessa Caroline Eichler   x   x Active c.1913                        
ZWICKER Marguerite (Mary Marguerite Porter) x         b.1904 - Yarmouth, NS d.1993 Painting:Watercolour; Printmaking: Linocut     Studied: Nova Scotia College of Art (Halifax, NS); Stanley Royle; Eliott O'Hara Member: NSSA       Prakash, A. K. "Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women's Art." (Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 2008)