The following is an alphabetical list of professional Canadian painters, primarily working in fine art painting and drawing. See other articles for information on Canadian art or a List of Canadian artists for other information.
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Isabella Mary Abbott (1890–1955) artist Una Stella Abrahamson (1922–1999) – artist, writer Lily Osman Adams (1865–1945)painter Marilla Adams (1864–1966) – artist Melita Aitken (1866–1945)artist Aleen Aked (1907–2003)Canadian-American painter Amelia Alcock-White (born 1981) – artist David T. Alexander (born 1947)landscape painter Lady Eveline Marie Alexander (1821–1906) – painter Wilhelmina Alexander (1871–1961) oil painter Libby Altwerger (1915–1995) painter and printmaker Helen Andersen (1919–1995)painter Marie-Elmina Anger (1844–1901) painter Danielle April (1949–) Silvia Araya (1930–2021)Chilean-born Canadian painter Caroline Armington (1875–1939) painter and printmaker Shelagh Armstrong (born 1961) illustrator William Armstrong (1822–1914) landscape watercolourist Caven Atkins (1907–2000) painter William Edwin Atkinson (1862–1926)landscape painter Joe Average (1957–2024) Eruoma Awashish (born 1980)Atikamekw painter Leo Ayotte (1909–1976) oil painter Philip Aziz (1923–2009) painter, sculptor
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Walter James Baber (1855–1924) – painter Earl Bailly (1903–1977) – mouth-painter and polio survivor Unity Bainbridge (1916–2017) – artist and poet Anna P. Baker (1928–1985) – painter Joan Balzar (1928–2016) – painter Marian Bantjes (1963–) – illustrator, designer, writer J. M. Barnsley (1861–1929)painter Anne Meredith Barry (1932–2003) painter Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995) American-Canadian painter, printmaker and sculptor Robert Bateman (born 1930) naturalist and painter Maxwell Bates (1906–1980) painter, architect Valentina Battler (born 1946) – artist Aba Bayefsky (1923–2001) painter Fanny Wright Bayfield (1813/14–1891) – illustrator Anong Beam – Ojibwe artist and curator John William Beatty (1869–1941) – painter François Beaucourt (1740–1794) painter Claire Beaulieu (born 1955) – painter Beaver Hall Group Noah Becker (born 1970) – painter Christi Belcourt (1966–) – Métis painter Arnold Belkin (1930–1992) Mexican-Canadian painter Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (1846–1923) – watercolour and oil landscape painter Lorraine Bénic (1937–) – painter William Berczy (1744–1813) pioneer and painter Rachel Berman (1946–2014) – American-born Canadian painter Judith Berry (born 1961) – painter George Théodore Berthon (1806–1892) portrait painter André Charles Biéler (1896–1989) painter and teacher David Bierk (1944–2002) American-born Canadian painter Olive Biller (1879–1957) – artist and illustrator B.C. Binning (1909–1976) painter, architect and teacher Yulia Biriukova (1897–1972) – painter Ron Bloore (1925–2009) painter, member of the Regina Five Susanna Blunt (1955–) – painter Bruno Bobak (1923–2012) Polish-born Canadian painter
Molly Lamb Bobak (1920–2014) painter Louis Boekhout (1919–2012) – Dutch Canadian landscape painter Blanche Bolduc (1906/1907–1998)Quebec painter, folk artist David Bolduc (1945–2010) – painter Eleanor Bond (born 1948) – painter, printmaker, and sculptor Marion Bond (1903–1965) – painter Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960) painter Simone Mary Bouchard (1912–1945) – painter and textile artist Sylvie Bouchard (born 1959) painter Céline Boucher (1945–) – painter, sculptor Shary Boyle (1972–) – painter, sculptor, performance artist Eva Theresa Bradshaw (1871–1938) painter Fritz Brandtner (1896–1969) painter Claude Breeze (born 1938)painter Henrietta Hancock Britton (1873–1963) – painter Bertram Brooker (1888–1955) writer, painter, musicianBiography of Bertram Brooker, retrieved on May 25th 2007. Annora Brown (1899–1987) painter and graphic artist Franklin Brownell (1856–1946) painter, teacher William Blair Bruce (1859–1906) painter Kittie Bruneau (1929–2021) painter and printmaker William Brymner (1855–1925) figure and landscape painter Karin Bubaš (1976–) – painter, photographer Della Burford (1946–) – painter, writer Dennis Burton (1933–2013) painter Ralph Wallace Burton (1905–1983) Jack Bush (1909–1977) abstract expressionist Sheila Butler (born 1940) painter
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Sveva Caetani (1917–1994) – Italian-Canadian painter Oscar Cahén (1916–1956)painter, illustrator, member of Painters Eleven Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (1923–2005) – painter, printmaker Florence Carlyle (1864–1923) – figure and portrait painter Franklin Carmichael (1890–1945) painter; member of the Group of Seven Emily Carr (1871–1945) painter and writer Barbara Caruso (1937–2009) – colour field painter, illustrator, printmaker, book designer A. J. Casson (1898–1992) painter of landscapes, forests and farms; member of the Group of Seven Mabel Cawthra (1871–1943) – painter Frederick Sproston Challener (1869–1959) painter, muralist and teacher Jack Chambers (1931–1978) painter and filmmaker Monique Charbonneau (1928–2014) – painter Benjamin Chee Chee (1944–1977) Ojibwa painter Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985) – painter and medical illustrator Victor Child (1897–1960) newspaper illustrator, painter and etcher Paraskeva Clark (1898–1986) painter Alberta Cleland (1876–1960) landscape painter Pierre Clerk (born 1928) – painter, sculptor and printmaker Nora Collyer (1898–1979) – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group Alex Colville (1920–2013) painter Charles Comfort (1900–1994) painter, muralist, designer, educator Edith Grace Coombs (1890–1986) – painter Emily Coonan (1885–1971) – painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group Corno (1952–2016) – painter Sonia Cornwall (1919–2006) – painter Bruno Cote (1940–2010) landscape painter Graham Coughtry (1931–1999) painter Holly Coulis (born 1968) painter Rody Kenny Courtice (1891–1973) – painter Linda Craddock (born 1952)painter, photographer Sarah Lindley Crease (1826–1922) – watercolour painter William Cruikshank (1848–1922) painter, teacher Maurice Cullen (1866–1934) Impressionist painter Jane Catherine Cummins (1841–1893) – painter Greg Curnoe (1937–1992) painter, co-founder of CAR Ruth Cuthand (1954–) – painter, printmaker, beader Colleen Cutschall (born 1951) – Oglala-Sicangu Lakota multi-media artist, professor Gertrude Spurr Cutts (1858–1941) – landscape painter
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Caroline Louisa Daly (1832–1893) – watercolour painter Kathleen Daly (1898–1994) painter Ken Danby (1940–2007) painter Charles Daudelin (1920–2001) sculptor and painter Julia Dault (born 1977) painter Karin Davie (1965–) – painter Sally Davies (1956–) – painter, photographer Forshaw Day (1837–1903) painter and educator Katherine Day (1889–1976) – painter, printmaker Mabel Killam Day (1884–1960) – painter Louis de Niverville (1933–2019) painter Simone Dénéchaud (1905–1974) painter Mary Dignam (1860–1938) painter; activist for women artists Melissa Doherty (1967–) – painter Eva Brook Donly (1867–1941) – painter Audrey Capel Doray (1931–2025) multimedia artistHeller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (eds.) (2013). "Doray, Audrey Capel". North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, p. 160. Routledge Julie Doucet (1867–1941) – painter Marie-Denise Douyon (born 1961) painter and illustrator Joseph Drapell (born 1940) abstract painter Moira Dryer (1957–1992) – abstract painter Ann Macintosh Duff (1925–2022) Delree Dumont – painter Alma Duncan (1917–2004) – painter, filmmaker Edmond Dyonnet (1859–1954) painter
E Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake (1854–1951) – painter Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896) portrait painter Allan Edson (1846–1888)landscape painter Emily Louise Orr Elliott (1867–1952) – painter and fashion illustrator Harold Elliott (1890–1968) painter Kingmeata Etidlooie (1915–1989) – painter, sculptor Leya Evelyn (1937–) – painter Catherine Everett (born 1957)sculptor and painter Peter Maxwell Ewart (1918–2001)landscape painter
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Lilias Farley (1907–1989) – painter, sculptor, muralist Caroline Farncomb (1859–1951) – painter Holly Farrell (born 1961) painter Claire Fauteux (1889–1998) painter Henriette Fauteux-Massé (1924–2005) painter Holly Fay – painter Lillian Prest Ferguson (1867–1955) – painter Marcelle Ferron (1924–2001) painter George Fertig (1915–1983) painter and photographer Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890–1956) artist; member of the Group of Seven Julie Flett – Indigenous painter, illustrator Lita Fontaine (born 1953) Indigenous multi-media painter Dulcie Foo Fat (born 1946) painter Harriet Mary Ford (1859–1938) – painter, muralist, jeweller Nehemiah Ford (birth year unknown; died between 1858 and 1862) painter, politician Nita Forrest (1926–1996) – painter John Wycliffe Lowes Forster (1850–1934) – painter Michael Forster (1907–2002) painter Mina Forsyth (1921–1987) – painter Marc-Aurèle Fortin (1888–1970) painter Daniel Fowler (1810–1894) watercolour painter Hannah Franklin (1937–) – painter, sculptor Leanne Franson (1963–) – illustrator, cartoonist John Arthur Fraser (1838–1898) – painter Maida Parlow French (1891–1977) – painter, writer
G Clarence Gagnon (1881–1942) painter, etcher Marianna Gartner (1963–) – painter Yves Gaucher (1934–2000) painter, printmaker Alyne Gauthier-Charlebois (1908–1955) – painter Robert Genn (1936–2014) painter Lise Gervais (1933–1998) – painter, sculptor Sky Glabush (born 1970) painter Eric Goldberg (1890–1969) Jewish-Canadian painter Regina Seiden Goldberg (1897–1991) painter Charles Goldhamer (1903–1985) watercolour painter Betty Goodwin (1923–2008) painter, sculptor Hortense Gordon (1886–1961) – painter Richard Gorman (1935–2010) painter and printmaker Pnina Granirer (1935–) – painter Vaughan Grayson (1894–1995) painter and printmaker Grimes (1988–) – musician, painter Daniel Charles Grose (1832–1900) painter Angela Grossmann (1955–) – painter
H Alexandra Haeseker (born 1945) – painter, printmaker, installation artist Clara Hagarty (1871–1958) – painter Sylvia Hahn (1911–2001)painter Elizabeth Amherst Hale (1774–1826) – painter John Hall (born 1943) – painter Joice M. Hall (born 1943) – painter Kazuo Hamasaki (1925–2005) Japanese-Canadian painter Henrietta Hamilton (1780–1857) – painter Mary Riter Hamilton (1873–1954) painter; World War I artist John A. Hammond (1843–1939) painter, photographer, printmaker Clara Isabella Harris (1887–1974) painter Lawren Harris (1855–1970) painter; member of the Group of Seven Robert Harris (1848–1919) painter Ted Harrison (1926–2015) painter Monique Harvey (1950–2001) painter Iris Hauser (1956–) – painter Bobs Cogill Haworth (1900–1988) – painter Guenter Heim (1935–2014) painter Pierre Henry (1932–2013) painter; anecdotism art movement Carle Hessay (1911–1978) painter Prudence Heward (1896–1947) painter; member of the Beaver Hall Group Annie Hewlett (1997–1974) – writer, painter Gilah Yelin Hirsch (1944–) – painter Edwin Holgate (1892–1977) painter, engraver; member of the Group of Seven Margaret Lindsay Holton (1955–) – painter William Hope (1863–1931) – painter, war artist Nesta Bowen Horne (1896-1987) painter Yvonne McKague Housser (1898–1996) painter, teacher Barbara Howard (1926–2002) – painter, engraver Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon (1826–1874) – painter Patrick Howlett (born 1971) – visual artist E.J. Hughes (1913–2007) – painter Natalka Husar (born 1951) – painter
I Jay Isaac (born 1975) – painter Gershon Iskowitz (1921–1988) painter
J A. Y. Jackson (1882–1974) painter; founding member of the Group of Seven Otto Reinhold Jacobi (1812–1901) painter Richard Jacobson (born 1959) artist, illustrator Sybil Henley Jacobson (1881–1953) – painter Lucy Jarvis (1896–1985) – painter Charles William Jefferys (1869–1951) painter, illustrator, author, teacher Sarah Anne Johnson (born 1976) painter Frank Johnston (1888–1949) artist; member of the Group of Seven Gladys Johnston (1906–1983) – painter John Young Johnstone (1887–1930) painter Janet Jones (1952–2025) – painter Leonel Jules (born 1953) painter
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