Marjorie Esa (born 1934) is an Inuit artist known for her drawings and stone carvings. [1] [2] She was born in the Nuqsarhaarjuk camp and lives in Baker Lake, Nunavut. [1]
Her work is included in the collections of the Winnipeg Art Gallery [3] the National Gallery of Canada [1] and the Art Gallery of Guelph. [4]
Phyllis Jacobine Jones (1897–1976) was a sculptor. She was born in England, but migrated to Canada in 1932.
Kate Nicholson was an English painter and the daughter of artist Ben Nicholson and his first wife, the artist Winifred Nicholson.
Isabel McLaughlin, was a Modernist Canadian painter, patron and philanthropist. She specialized in landscapes and still life and had a strong interest in design.
Marjorie Virginia Strider was an American painter, sculptor and performance artist best known for her three-dimensional paintings and site-specific soft sculpture installations.
The Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG), formerly the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (MSAC), is a public gallery and adjoining sculpture park in Guelph, Ontario. Its collection consists of over 9,000 works. The AGG is a nonprofit that focuses on research, publishing, educational programs, and touring exhibitions.
Susan Dobson (born September 19, 1965) is a Canadian artist based in Guelph, Ontario. She is best known for her photographs and installations, many focusing on the theme of urban landscape and suburban culture.
Cindy Heller Nemser was an American art historian and writer. Founder and editor of the Feminist Art Journal, she was an activist and prominent figure in the feminist art movement and was best known for her writing on the work of women artists such as Eva Hesse, Alice Neel, and Louise Nevelson.
Monica Tap is a Canadian painter, artist and educator. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is known for engaging and challenging conventions concerning landscape and still-life painting.
Cheryl Ruddock is a Canadian-American painter from Guelph, Canada, who has been exhibiting widely for over 20 years. Her most recent solo exhibition, Harmonics, was exhibited at Gallery Stratford, in 2016. A career survey of her work, entitled Slip, was held at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, now the Art Gallery of Guelph, in 2010.
Anne Marjorie Robinson, sometimes Annie Marjorie Robinson, (1858–1924) was a British painter who also exhibited examples of her sculptures and miniatures.
Lillian Freiman was a Canadian painter who studied in Montreal and France before settling in New York City. Influenced by Edgar Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, she was known for her subtle interpretations of every day people.
Rae Johnson (1953-2020) was a Canadian painter who lived in Toronto, Canada.
Marjorie Pigott was a Japanese Canadian artist, who adapted Japanese watercolour techniques to paint Canadian scenes.
Marjorie Schick was an innovative American jewelry artist and academic who taught art for 50 years. Approaching sculptural creations, her avant-garde pieces have been widely collected. Her works form part of the permanent collections of many of the world's leading art museums, including the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan; the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; and the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.
Mary Kapbak Okheena is an Inuvialuit graphic artist known for her stencil prints including "Musk-ox Waiting for the Tide to Cross Water" (1986) and "Shaman Dances to Northern Lights" (1991), drawings and embroidery. She is part of the third generation of organized graphic artists in the Canadian Arctic. Okheena has five children with her husband Eddie and she currently lives in Inuvik where she practices embroidery and makes wall hangings.
Erica Rutherford was a British-Canadian artist, filmmaker and writer. She received the Father Adrien Arsenault Senior Arts Award (2001) and was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1999).
Rabia Zuberi, sometimes referred to in Pakistan as Queen Mother of Arts, was a Pakistani sculptor, painter, former chairperson of the Pakistan Arts Council, teacher and Pakistan's first woman sculptor. She produced most of her work after immigrating to Pakistan. Some of her drawings includes Duputta, Quest for Peace, and some sculptures titled Peace Message from the Progressive World and Peace Message were acquired by the National Art Gallery, Pakistan during an exhibition in 2003.
Lynn Donoghue was a painter, known for her portraits.
Ada Eyetoaq was born in 1934 and died in 2014. She was a Baker Lake (Nunavut) Inuit who produced traditional Inuit art. She is primarily known for her miniature soapstone sculptures.
Anna Kingwatsiak (1911–1971) was an Inuit visual artist.