Edward (Ted) Fenwick Zuber is a professional painter well-known for his work as a War Artist from the Canadian government. He was born in 1932 in Montreal, Quebec. He started his study in art at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, attended Queen’s University (fine arts) and apprenticed to the spiritual painter Matthew Martirano.

Throughout his experience on the Korean Front, Zuber had a sketch book with him to record the action around him. During which time he shaped many drawings and maintains a full “Sketch diary”. These pictorial records of Canada’s Korean association are chiefly precious historically, as there was no official war painter assigned to Canada’s Korean involvement. Thirteen paintings from Zuber’s “Korean War Series” are now in the set of the Canadian War Museum.

On December 17, 1991 Zuber was awarded with Kuwait and Gulf medal by Chief of the Defense Staff, General John de Chastelain. He was even awarded with the Korean Medal on November 11, in the year 1991 together with the other Canadians who served in Korea. Zuber is the only Canadian service man or woman to have both the Korean War award and the Gulf War medal.

Horatio Walker (1858-1938) was an appreciated and officially successful Canadian painter. He worked in oils and watercolors, normally depicting scenes of rural life in Canada. He was prejudiced by the French Barbizon School of painting.

Walker was born at Listowel, Ontario on May 13, 1858. In 1873 he moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he was a trainee at the photography firm of Notman and Frasier. In 1883 he moved to Rochester, New York. In 1883 he married Jeanette Pretty (d. 1938) of Toronto. He had two children, Alice (1884-1891) and Horatio Jr. (1886-1910). Walker was a member of few artists’ organizations, as well as the American Watercolor Society (1882), the Royal Canadian Academy of Art (associate member in 1883, was a full member in 1913), the Society of American Artists (1887), the National Academy of Design (associate member during 1890, full member during 1891), and the British Institute of Watercolors (1901). He was a opening member of the Canadian Art Club that elected him as its president in 1915. In 1928 he officially leaves and moved to Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec. He died there on September 27, 1938.

Walker’s awards and prizes include:

•Gold medals, American Art Gallery, New York (1887, 1889)
•Evans Prize, American Watercolor Society (1888)
•Bronze medal, World Exposition, Paris, France (1889)
•Gold medal, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (1893)
•Gold medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York (1901)
•Gold medal, Charleston Exposition, Charleston, South Carolina (1902)
•Two gold medals (for oil and watercolor), Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri (1904)
•Medal of honor, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1906)
•First prize, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts (1907)
•Gold medal, Pan-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California (1915)

Landscape No. 1: Mountains, B.C., circa 1934, National Gallery of Canada. Frederick Horsman Varley (January 2, 1881-September 8, 1969) is a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists.

Varley was born in Sheffield, England in the year 1881 and studied art in Sheffield and in Belgium. He came to Canada during 1912 on the counsel of another Sheffield native, Arthur Lismer, and explored his work at Grip Ltd. He then served in the First World War and painted scenes of battle from his own experiences of the time. His major gift to art, however, was for his own work with the Group of Seven. He and Lawren Harris were the only members in that group to paint portraits.He died in Toronto in 1969.

Tristan Tondino (born on July 3, 1961) is an Irrealist painter/artist and a member of La Raza Group 2006, born in Montreal, Canada. Tondino then made his living for a time as a scenic painting, art director and also with screen writer.

In the late-1990s Tondino painted and displayed a number of works that he himself called Irrealist. His work cannot truly be said to have a precise style, anyhow many are Lettrist abstractions. Tondino’s parents were painter/educator Gentile Tondino RCA (1923–2001) and Livia Tondino (1925–2003). Gentile Tondino was his primary early painting influence.

He painted 40 works on a trip to Europe, which burned in a car fire on the Amalfi coast during 1987. In the 1990s Tondino started devoting himself even more seriously to the creation of artworks. The early works then move back and forth from En plein air (e) paintings to works was mainly influenced by Willem de Kooning and Pablo Picasso. These early works are colorful, free paintings in a direct impasto technique.

Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917) was a great influential Canadian artist of early 20th century. Tom Thomson was born near Claremont, Ontario and studied in Leith, near Owen Sound.

Thomson was mainly self-taught. He was then employed as a graphic designer with Toronto’s Grip Ltd., an experience that honed his draughtsmanship. Although he started his painting and drawing at quite early age, it was only in 1912, when Thomson was too much into his thirties, that he began painting very seriously. His first trips to Algonquin Park mainly inspired him to follow the lead of fellow artists in creating oil sketches of natural scenes on small, rectangular panels for easy portability as traveling. Between 1912 and his death in 1917, Thomson made hundreds of these small sketches, many of which are now housed in such beautigul galleries as the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Marc Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote (April 6, 1869 – January 29, 1937) is a Canadian artist and sculptor.

He was born in Arthabaska, Quebec in the year 1869. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts at Paris with Léon Bonnat during 1890s. After him return to Quebec during the year 1908, he produced many impressionist paintings of the Quebec landscape, and lot of portraits, nudes, historical paintings and later sculptures.

Suzor-Cote became paralyzed in the year 1927 and later died at Daytona Beach, Florida in 1937.

Rudolf Stussi is a Swiss-born painter who came to Canada during 1967 to attend Carlton University. Stussi then studied and taught at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in the year 1978. From 1988 to 1991 he was president of the Canadian Society of Painters in the Water Colour (CSPWC).

Rudolf was totally involved in animation with Toronto based Nelvana. He also directed the award winning series “Little Bear” and “Rolie-Polie-Olie” and the great film “Heidi”. In the year 1998, Stussi was the subject of a monograph by the Canadian art critic Paul Duval and had illustrated several books.

His published works include:

•Rudolf Stussi, Painter by Paul Duval, Benteli (Switzerland), 1988
•Periwinkle Isn’t Paris by Marylin Eisenstein, Tundra Books (Canada), 1999
•Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Desertina (Switzerland), 2000\

He was represented by galleries in Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Jack Leonard Shadbolt (February 4, 1909 – November 22, 1998) is a Canadian painter.

Born in Shoeburyness, England, he then came to Canada with his parents during 1912, and was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. From the period 1928 to 1937, he taught in high schools in Duncan, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied with his companion Frederick Varley at the Vancouver School of Art. From 1938 to 1966, he taught at the Vancouver School of Art and was the head of painting and also drawing section until 1966. During World War II, he was an official War artist for the Canadian Army.

In the year 1972, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1990, he was also awarded by the Order of British Columbia.

Tony Scherman (born 1950) was a leading Canadian painter. Born in Toronto, Canada and during 1974 graduate of the Royal College of Art, Scherman has had his solo shows in galleries and regional museums although Canada and the United States. His most expressive work often depicts historical figures and was held in public collections world-wide. He is most chiefly known for a monumental cycle of Napoleon portraits and French Revolution paintings collected in the 2002 art book, Chasing Napoleon: Forensic Portraits.

Jean-Paul Riopelle (7 October 1923 - 12 March 2002) was a painter and sculptor as well from Quebec, Canada.

Born in Montreal, he studied under Paul-Émile Borduas during 1940s and was a member of Les Automatists movement. He was one of the good signers of the Refus global manifesto. In 1949 he moved to Paris and then continued his career as a painter, where he commercialized on his picture as a “wild Canadian”. His life and artistic partner was the great American painter, Joan Mitchell. They also kept separate homes and studios near Giverny, where Monet lived. They were influenced one another significantly, as much rationally as artistically, but their relationship was a violent one, fueled by alcohol. At times their styles were extraordinarily similar.

In June, 2006 the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts prearranged a displayed exhibition that was presented at the State Hermitage Museum at Saint Petersburg, Russia and the Musee Cantini in the Marseilles, France. The Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal still has a number of his works, spanning his whole career, in their permanent collection.