Jean-Paul Riopelle, was widely regarded as Canada's most important modern artist, whose Abstract Expressionist style was often compared to that of American artist Jackson Pollock.
One of the first Canadian artists to gain major international recognition, Riopelle was born on October 7, 1923, in Montreal, Quebec.
Alexander Young Jackson is revered as the leading artistic figure in Canada, whose creative art has significantly contributed to the development of art in 20thcentury Canada.
Best-known as the leading member of the Group of Seven, Jackson was born on October 3, 1882, in Montreal, Québec.
Daphne Odjig, is revered as an internationally renowned artist who brought a tectonic shift in Canadian art history.
A founding member of the 1970s artists' alliance the ‘Indian Group of Seven’, Odjig was born on September 11, 1919, in Wikwemikong, on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.
Displaying mythological tableaux by creating exquisite black wooden sculptural boxes in which a scene, composed of different elements, can be seen behind a glass and each box presents itself as an unusual “theatre of the unconscious”, the Canadian artist, Mimi Parent, is acclaimed as one of the most vibrant and provocative force of Surrealism in the decades after the second world war.
Depicting the French-Canadian life and Canadian landscapes in a detailed, romanticized and anecdotal style, the Dutch-Canadian painter, Cornelius Krieghoff, is celebrated as the finest Canadian artist to describe the Quebec life in the mid-nineteenth century.
One of the most well-known and sought after artist in his own life time, Krieghoff was born on June 19, 1815, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.