Barraud immigrated to Canada from England in 1913 as an established painter and graphic designer known for his drawings and etchings. He became an official Canadian war artist during the First World War after being injured while serving with the 43rd Battalion in 1916. A prominent teacher at the Winnipeg School of Art (now part of the University of Manitoba), Barraud taught etching to notable students such as Walter J. Phillips.

A British illustrator who travelled extensively in North America from the 1830s to 1850s, making landscape drawings for various illustrated volumes.

Bartlett contributed 120 drawings to Canadian Scenery Illustrated (1842), a project of the eminent American writer and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis. See artwork by this artist. 

Commissioned as an Official War Artist in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1944, Bayefsky was a painter and teacher at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. In 1945 he documented the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation. He remained committed to confronting anti-Semitism in his art for the remainder of his career and created a number of works exploring his own Jewish heritage. Bayefsky was awarded the Order of Canada in 1979. See artwork by this artist.

A prominent figurative and landscape artist and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Beament was an official Canadian war artist during the Second World War. During his tenure as a war artist, he depicted scenes based on his experiences as a naval commander in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, the English Channel, and Newfoundland waters. See artwork by this artist.

Widely recognized for her contributions to Canadian art, Belmore is a prominent performance and installation artist known for her politically charged work addressing the unresolved issues of history, trauma, and identity in the colonial spaces of Canada and the Americas. Among her most recognized works is the performance video Vigil, 2002, which calls attention to the hundreds of Indigenous women gone missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. In 2005 Belmore became the first Indigenous woman to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale. See artwork by this artist. 

Raised in Vienna, Berczy worked as a painter in Italy and England before travelling to Upper Canada in 1794. He became a popular portraitist in York (Toronto) and then in Montreal. Berczy’s most famous works include a full-length portrait of Joseph Brant, c.1807, and the group portrait The Woolsey Family, 1808–09. See artwork by this artist.

An important figure in Canadian art history for his arts activism (which contributed to the eventual founding of the Canada Council for the Arts), teaching, and prolific creative output. His paintings, murals, prints, and sculptures fuse a modernist concern for form, line, and colour with regionalist subjects: rural landscapes, figures, and genre scenes. See artwork by this artist.

The youngest official Canadian war artist appointed during the Second World War, Bobak was a Polish-born painter and printmaker. Influenced by the European Expressionists, he is best known for his figure studies and, in the 1950s, became a prominent member of the postwar Vancouver art scene. He was married to fellow painter Molly Lamb Bobak and, from 1962 to 1988, served as director of the Art Centre at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Vancouver-born artist Molly Lamb Bobak studied with Jack Shadbolt at the Vancouver School of Art. She served in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps during the Second World War and, in 1945, became the first woman to be named an Official War Artist. Her work includes both delicate floral studies in watercolour and depictions of interiors and of the crowds that animate scenes of regional life rendered in oil. In the 1950s and 1960s she gave televised art courses that were broadcast on various regional networks. See artwork by this artist.

A prolific and influential visual artist in Canada, Brandtner immigrated to this country in 1928 and quickly established himself as a commercial artist and set designer; he also mounted a solo exhibition soon after his arrival. German Expressionism influenced his artistic output, as did his interest in social justice. He was an active teacher, and with Norman Bethune established the Children’s Art Centre, a Montreal arts school for poor children. See artwork by this artist.

Brittain first trained with Elizabeth Russell Holt, a central figure of the arts scene in Saint John, New Brunswick, before studying at the Art Students League of New York from 1930 to 1932. His drawings, paintings, watercolours, and murals reveal an enduring interest in social realism and psychology. Brittain was a founding member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. See artwork by this artist.

A Toronto-born official Canadian war artist during the Second World War, Brooks, who served in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, is notable for his wartime paintings of naval life on Canada’s east coast. In the late 1940s, Brooks and his wife Reva―a prominent photographer―emigrated to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, there forming an informal artist colony. See artwork by this artist.

An accomplished painter and carpet designer who also produced etchings and engravings, Broomfield trained under Arthur Lismer at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) and was mentored by members of the Group of Seven, including J.E.H. MacDonald and Franklin Carmichael at their Port Hope summer school in 1920 and 1921. Broomfield enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War, capturing his experiences in paint.

Born on Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Butler is a painter, writer, and book illustrator. He received formal training at the Art Students League of New York. In the 1980s Butler self-published Art of War: Painting It out of the Picture, which explores his compositions about war and militarism. See artwork by this artist.