Isabel Grace McLaughlin
Canadian CGP, OSA [1903-2002]
A RAINY FALL DAY AT COWANSVILLE, P. QUE.; 1937
oil on wood panel
13 x 16.25 in. (33 x 41.3 cm)
signed, titled and dated verso; estate stamped (Inv. #129)

Provenance: Masters Gallery, Calgary AB (label verso)

Isabel McLaughlin studied at the Ontario College of Art (under Arthur Lismer and Yvonne McKague Housser), as well as at the Art Students League of New York and at the Scandinavian Academy (Paris). She held her first solo show in 1933 at the Art Gallery of Toronto, the same year she became one of the founding members of the Canadian Group of Painters. She exhibited regularly with the group, and in 1939 became its first female president.