George Douglas Pepper - Artist Info

About George Douglas Pepper

  • Biography

    Captain George Douglas Pepper was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator, printmaker, educator and a famous Canadian war artist. His works have been included in some of Canada's most important exhibitions of 20th Century art. They are also in most of Canada's major museums.

    He was born in Ottawa, Ontario and died in Toronto, Ontario where he had lived since 1932. (1)

    His mediums included oil, watercolor, Conte Crayon*, pencil, charcoal, ink and linocut*. His subjects were landscapes, portraits, genre*, figures, nudes, Eskimos, totems, Indians, farm life, urban scenes and war. The peacetime painting locations ranged across Canada from Newfoundland to British Columbia to the Arctic. They also...

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