Lucy Jarvis

Lucy Jarvis Artist Bio: Lucy Jarvis (1896-1985) Lucy Mary Hope Jarvis was born in Toronto in 1896, the first of five children of Edward William Jarvis and his wife, Kate Agnes Harris. E.W. Jarvis was associated with the Bank of Montreal and moved around the Maritimes...

Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey Artist Bio: Jack Weldon Humphrey, RCA 1901-1967 Jack Humphrey was one of Canada’s major painters during the middle years of the twentieth century. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Academy of Design in New York,...

Miriam Ramsay Holland

Miriam Ramsay Holland Artist Bio: Miriam Ramsay Holland (1904 – 1973) Born in Montréal, Holland studied painting at the École des Baux-Arts in Montréal and at the Art Association of Montréal under Edmond Dyonnet. Later Holland studied with Charles Hawthorn in...

Garnet Hazard

Garnet Hazard Artist Bio: Garnet Hazard (1903 – 1987) Garnet Hazard was born in 1903 in Wallaceburg, Ontario, but he grew up on a farm in rural Saskatchewan. He took art classes in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, before earning his teacher’s certificate there at Moose...

Hilton Hassel

Hilton Hassel Artist Bio: Hilton Hassell, RCA, OSA (1910-1980) Hilton Hassell was born at Lachine, Québec, and studied at the Ontario College of Art under J.E.H. MacDonald, J.W. Beatty, and F.H. Johnston, and also at the Heatherley’s School in England, under...