Canadian Artists Research Project

Visual Arts, Open, Grade 9 (AVI1O1)

 

 

List of Canadian Artists

 

A.Y. Jackson

Henry George Glyde

Miller Brittain

Adrien Hebert

Homer Watson

Molly Lamb Bobak

Alex Colville

Hortense Gordon

Nixie Barton

Alfred Pellan

Illingworth Holey Kerr

Nora Collyer

Alexandra Luke

Inglis Sheldon-Williams

Norval Morrisseau

Anne Meredith Barry

J.E.M. MacDonald

Oscar Cahen

Anne Savage

Jack Bush

Ozias Leduc

Arthur Lismer

Jack Shadbolt

Paraskeva Clark

Ausustus F Kenderdine

Jack Weldon Humphrey

Paterson Ewen

Bruno Bobak

James Wilson Morrice

Paul Grignon

Christopher Pratt

Jean Paul Lemieux

Pegi Nicol Macleod

Clarence Gagnon

Jock MacDonald

Prudence Heward

Cornelius Krieghoff

Joe Norris

Ray Mead

Daphne Odjig

John Hammond

Robert Bateman

David Milne

Josephine Crease

Ruth Wainwright

Doris McCarthy

Kananginak Pootoogook

Sarah Robertson

Edwin Holgate

Kathleen Jean Munn

Sophie Pemberton

Elizabeth Styring Nutt

Kathleen Morris

Stacey Spiegel

Emily Carr

Kazuo Nakamura

Stella Sagaitis

Emily Coonan

Ken Danby

Stewart Marshall

Ethel Seath

Kenojuak

Susan Point

George Charles Clutesi

Laura Muntz Lyall

Takao Tanabe

George Douglas Pepper

Lawren Harris

Tom Hodgson

Gerald Tailfeathers

Lilias Torrance Newton

Tom Thomson

Glen Loates

Mabel Lockerby

Tony Scherman

Goodridge Roberts

Marcelle Ferron

Walter Yarwood

Grant Leier

Mary Pratt

William Kurelek

Greg Curnoe

Maud Lewis

William Ronald

Harold Town

Maurice Haycock

Yvonne McKague Housser

Henrietta Mabel May

Michael Snow

 

 

 

Recommended Websites

 

National Gallery of Canada

 

Canadian  Encyclopedia

 

Art Canada Institute:  Online Art Books

Canadian Art:  Must-Know Artists

 

Art History Archive:  Canadian Art and Artists

McMichael Gallery:  Group of Seven artists

 

Canadian War Artists of World War One

 

Canadian War Artists of World War Two

 

 

Sample Biographical Research Notes

 

 

Research Notes:  Tom Thomson

 

Birth date and Country of Origin

  • Thomas John Thomson  (Town 2153)
  • Born August 4, 1877 in Claremont, Ontario  (Town 2153)
  • Lived on a farm near Leith, Ontario on Georgian Bay  (Town and Silcox 49)

 

Early Life: Family, Siblings, Friends

  • Had 9 brothers and sisters  (Town 2153)
  • Family loved the outdoors  (Town 2153)
  • Past-times include hunting, fishing, reading, music  (Town 2153)

 

Education, Training and Influences

  • Apprenticed as machinist in Owen Sound  ("Biography of Tom Thomson")

Artist at his / her peak

Major accomplishments

 

 

 

Works Cited List 

 

 

Sample Works Cited List

 

Works Cited

 

"Biography of Tom Thomson."  Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.  2001, www.tomthomson.org/thomson/biography2.html.  Accessed 17 Oct. 2016.

Town, Harold. "Thomson, Thomas John." The Canadian Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. 1988.

Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Firefly Books Ltd., 2001.