A sculptor and commercial designer who designed the Ned Hanlan monument (commissioned in 1926 and originally erected on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition; now located on Toronto Islands, Toronto). He was the head of the sculpture department at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University), Toronto, and the husband of fellow sculptor Elizabeth Wyn Wood. See artwork by this artist.

After studying painting in Berlin and Paris in the early years of the twentieth century, Mary Riter Hamilton established herself as an artist in Europe before returning to Canada. During the First World War, she petitioned to be sent to the front lines as an official war artist but was denied. Instead, she travelled to Europe in 1918 to spend three years painting the war’s aftermath. She produced over three hundred works in an Impressionist style, depicting battlefields in France and Belgium. See artwork by this artist.

A founding member of the Group of Seven in Toronto in 1920, Harris was widely considered its unofficial leader. Unlike other members of the group, Harris moved away from painting representational landscapes, first to abstracted landscapes and then to pure abstraction. The Group of Seven broke up in 1933, and when the Canadian Group of Painters was formed in 1933, Harris was elected its first president. See artwork by this artist.

A painter and teacher, Harrison is the author of the art education text Self-Expression Through Art (1960). An English immigrant to Canada, in 1931 she settled in Kingston, Ontario, where she taught art at Queen’s University with André Bieler. Harrison depicted scenes from the home front during the Second World War, such as Lunchtime, Cafeteria at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, 1944. See artwork by this artist.

An artist and activist whose work addresses issues of social justice, cross-cultural exchange, and global politics. Her multidisciplinary practice is informed partly by her biography: Hassan grew up with ten siblings in a Lebanese-immigrant family in London, Ontario, and she was educated in Rome, Beirut, Windsor, and Baghdad. She won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2001. Her works are held in public collections across Canada and she has exhibited internationally. See artwork by this artist.

A painter, illustrator, muralist, and potter who worked in an expressionist style, favouring landscapes and abstract compositions. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (for which she also served as president), the Canadian Group of Painters, and the Ontario Society of Artists. During the Second World War, she recorded the activities of the Canadian Armed Forces in British Columbia, later exhibiting this work to critical acclaim.

A prominent sculptor and a founder of the Sculptors Society of Canada, Hébert was central to the creation of Le Nigog (1918–19), an avant-garde art and literature review, and was a proponent of Quebec modernism. He was the son of Louis-Philippe Hébert, a significant nineteenth-century Quebec sculptor. See artwork by this artist.

One of the most important sculptors in Canada in the late 1800s, Hébert began his career by apprenticing with Napoléon Bourassa, and he later studied in Paris. He became known for creating bronze monuments, including several high-profile commissions for Parliament Hill in Ottawa and the Legislative Building in Quebec. See artwork by this artist.

One of the leading Canadian sculptors of the early twentieth century, Hill was known for his war memorials in the French academic style. Born in the Eastern Township of Shipton in Quebec, Hill studied sculpture at the École des beaux-arts and Académie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1894. Returning to Montreal, Hill went on to produce numerous major monuments primarily in Quebec and Ontario. See artwork by this artist.

An Abstract Expressionist painter, advertising art director, respected art teacher, and champion athlete raised on Centre Island, in Toronto Harbour. Hodgson was a member of Painters Eleven; he trained with Arthur Lismer at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University), Toronto, and made action paintings that were often immense in scale. See artwork by this artist.

A painter, draftsman, and educator, best known for his portraits and for his woodcuts of figures set in landscapes. Holgate was a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group, a member of the Group of Seven, and a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters.

Painter, curator, teacher, and writer, known for increasing the visibility of contemporary First Nations art in Canada. Houle’s experience at Sandy Bay Residential School informs his colour field paintings, which gave him a conceptual language to express the opposing ideologies of Saulteaux-Ojibwa spirituality and Christianity. Houle served as the first Curator of Contemporary Indian Art at the Canadian Museum of History (1977–1980) and co-curated several landmark exhibitions of First Nations artists. He received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2015. See artwork by this artist.

A multi-disciplinary textile artist based in British Columbia, Hunt is notable for work that focuses on the devastation of war. To comment on the human cost of war, she has used pink knitting yarn to recreate objects such as antipersonnel landmines and painstakingly embroidered delicate designs onto used camouflage-pattern uniforms. Hunt has also worked with hard materials, such as steel. See artwork by this artist.

A prominent Ottawa portrait and landscape artist, Hyndman was an official Canadian war artist during the Second World War. Serving first as a Spitfire pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force’s (RCAF) 411 Squadron, Hyndman later depicted some of his more harrowing flying experiences and completed a series of portraits of wartime RCAF personnel. He taught at the Ottawa School of Art for over thirty years and held teaching posts at Alberta’s currently named Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. See artwork by this artist.