Extended Artist Biographies

Frederick Hagan
Frederick Hagan (1918 – 2003) RCA, OSA, CPE was a painter, printmaker, and influential instructor and department head at the Ontario College of Art (OCA). Hagan grew up in Cabbagetown, where...
Frederick Hagan
Frederick Hagan (1918 – 2003) RCA, OSA, CPE was a painter, printmaker, and influential instructor and department head at the Ontario College of Art (OCA). Hagan grew up in Cabbagetown, where...

Annemarie Slipper (née Teuscher)
Annemarie Teuscher was born in New York in 1932. She was raised in Montreal, where she studied painting at the Fine Arts department at McGill University. Teuscher married and had...
Annemarie Slipper (née Teuscher)
Annemarie Teuscher was born in New York in 1932. She was raised in Montreal, where she studied painting at the Fine Arts department at McGill University. Teuscher married and had...

Aleen Aked
Aleen Aked (1907 - 2003) was born in Kildwick of Yorkshire, England to an affluent family involved in England’s wool industry. In 1910, Aked and her family immigrated to Canada,...
Aleen Aked
Aleen Aked (1907 - 2003) was born in Kildwick of Yorkshire, England to an affluent family involved in England’s wool industry. In 1910, Aked and her family immigrated to Canada,...

Charles Hepburn Scott
Charles Hepburn Scott (1886-1964) was born in Ayrshire in Scotland in 1886. After spending his childhood in his native country and studying at the Glasgow School of Art, he immigrated to...
Charles Hepburn Scott
Charles Hepburn Scott (1886-1964) was born in Ayrshire in Scotland in 1886. After spending his childhood in his native country and studying at the Glasgow School of Art, he immigrated to...

Dorothy Stevens
Dorothy Stevens (1888-1966), RCA, OSA, CPE, known in her time as a strong-willed, trouser-wearing woman who once went to a costume party with Frederick Varley dressed as the Cleopatra to his...
Dorothy Stevens
Dorothy Stevens (1888-1966), RCA, OSA, CPE, known in her time as a strong-willed, trouser-wearing woman who once went to a costume party with Frederick Varley dressed as the Cleopatra to his...

Edwy Francis Cooke
Edwy Francis Cooke was born in Toronto in 1926. He studied at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD) under Charles Comfort, Yvonne McKague Housser, John Alfsen, Eric Aldwinke, and Grace...
Edwy Francis Cooke
Edwy Francis Cooke was born in Toronto in 1926. He studied at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD) under Charles Comfort, Yvonne McKague Housser, John Alfsen, Eric Aldwinke, and Grace...