Mildred Valley Thornton

English Bay, n.d.

Chief Moody Humchitt, c.1940

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Thornton was born in 1890. Although she was born in Ontario, Thornton spent a good deal of her life in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, perhaps inciting one of her contemporary artists called her “as Canadian as wheat,” Thornton is famous both for her landscapes and her portraits of First Nations people, of which she did over 300.

Thornton transgressed the gender boundaries of her time, enlisting her husband’s help in raising their twin sons while she pursued her artistic career. She was also radical for her time as an early supporter of women’s and aboriginal rights. It for these reason that Thornton was, and remains, an under-appreciated Canadian artist. 

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Sources: Janet Nicol Blog, Surrey 604, Mother Tongue Publishing

(Source: pegasusgallery.ca)

Ted Mayac

Loons, Emperor Goose, Tufted Puffin, ca.1993

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William Noah 

The Skeletoned Caribou, 1974

waddingtons:

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Barker Fairley 

Irma Milne, 1967

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Peter Morgan

Unititled (Caribou Skull), n.d.

(Source: 69.90.163.69)

youngontario:

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Prudence Heward

Sisters of Rural Quebec, 1930

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Pitseolak Ashoona 

Birds Attacking Goose Hunter, 1978

artgalleryofontario:

The Inglenook in My Studio, c. 1910
Mary Hiester Reid Canadian, 1854 - 1921
Oil on canvas
61.2 x 46 cm
Purchase, 1987
© 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario

cuartgallery:

Collection Friday!

Fran Jones, Spring Snow, 1954. Linocut on paper.