Nora Collyer
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Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (June 7, 1898 – June 11, 1979)[1] was a Canadian modernist painter who was inspired by the Canadian landscape, nature, and urban communities.[1] Both an artist and a teacher, she received her formal art training at the Art Association of Montreal (AAM), where she studied under Alberta Cleland, William Brymner, and Maurice Cullen.[2] Nora Collyer was the youngest of the ten women artists who today are commonly referred to as the Beaver Hall Group.[1] Aside from being an artist and a teacher, she was also a volunteer for the Children's Memorial Hospital of Montreal.[1] Collyer's work was exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, England, in 1924 and 1925, as well as at the 1939 New York World's Fair.[3]