24 Canadian war artists

Clare "Tony" Atwood was a British painter of portraits, still life, landscapes, interiors and decorative flower subjects. Atwood lived in a ménage à trois with the dramatist Christabel Marshall and the actress, theatre director, producer and costume designer Edith Craig from 1916 until Craig's death in 1947.

Geoffrey Spink Bagley was an English artist, museum curator, politician, historian and writer.

Aba Bayefsky, was a Canadian artist and teacher.

Lieutenant-Commander Alan Brookman Beddoe, OC, OBE, HFHS, FHSC was a Canadian artist, war artist, consultant in heraldry and founder and first president of the Heraldry Society of Canada in 1965.

Molly Bobak was a Canadian teacher, writer, printmaker and painter working in oils and watercolours. During World War II, she was the first Canadian woman artist to be sent overseas to document Canada's war effort, and in particular, the work of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C), as one of Canada's war artists.

Miller Gore Brittain was a Canadian artist from Saint John, New Brunswick.

Paraskeva Clark was a Canadian painter. Her work is often political as she believed that “an artist must act as a witness to class struggle and other societal issues.” She was a member of the Canadian Group of Painters, the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Canadian Society of Graphic Art, the Ontario Society of Artists, and the Royal Canadian Academy. Much of her art now is in the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

David Alexander Colville, was a Canadian painter.

Charles Fraser Comfort, was a Scottish-born Canadian painter, sculptor, teacher, writer and administrator.

Kerr Eby was a Canadian illustrator best known for his renderings of soldiers in combat in the First and Second World Wars. He is held in a similar regard to Harvey Dunn and the other famous illustrators dispatched by the government to cover the First World War.

Robert Stewart Hyndman was a distinguished Canadian portrait and landscape artist based in the National Capital Region. His career spanned more than 70 years.

Alexander Young Jackson was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was successful in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto. He exhibited with the Group of Seven from 1920. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a War Artist during World War I (1917–19) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

Charles William Jefferys was a Canadian painter, illustrator, author, and teacher, best known as a historical illustrator.

Richard Johnson is a Canadian journalist and war artist.

Arthur Lismer, was an English-Canadian painter, educator, and member of the Group of Seven. He is known for his paintings of ships in dazzle camouflage.

Manly Edward MacDonald was a Canadian semi-impressionistic painter who was born in Point Anne, close to Belleville, Ontario. He was the son of William MacDonald, a farmer and fisherman who emigrated to Canada from England. His work captured and recorded rural Ontario practices such as ploughing, cutting ice, collecting sap, logging and fishing. He is particularly renowned for his depictions of working horses in flowing motion, streams and gristmills. MacDonald also painted landscapes and many portraits of family and local dignitaries.

Pegi Nicol MacLeod,, was a Canadian painter whose modernist self-portraits, figure studies, paintings of children, still lifes and landscapes are characterized by a fluidity of form and vibrant colour. Born Margaret Kathleen Nichol, she was a teacher, war artist and arts activist. In 1936 she became a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and one year later she joined the Canadian Group of Painters.

David Milne was a Canadian painter, printmaker, and writer.

Jack Nichols (1921–2009) was a Canadian artist from Montreal, Quebec.

William Abernethy Ogilvie, was a Canadian painter and war artist.

George Douglas Pepper was a Canadian artist.

George Campbell (Cam) Tinning, known as Campbell Tinning, was a Canadian painter, graphic designer, muralist, and illustrator. He was an Official Canadian War Artist in World War Two; the only one born in Saskatchewan. After the war, he resided in Montreal but travelled extensively and painted in every Canadian province, the United States, Jamaica, Italy, France, England and Scotland. In 1970, he was elected a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Frederick Horsman Varley was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven.

Emily Mary Bibbens Warren was a British Canadian artist and illustrator. She worked in ink, watercolour, oil, gouache, and graphite. Her favourite subjects included gardens, landscape, and interiors and exteriors of buildings. She is known for sunlight beaming through stained glass windows.