Eldon Grier

Eldon Grier (13 April 1917 – 28 July 2001) was a Canadian poet and artist. Grier is best known for his poems regarding travel and art. Grier's early poems were influenced by Louis Dudek He died at the age of 84 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They had two children together, a daughter named Alexa and a son named Brock. in his mid-thirties and underwent treatment for two years before he recovered.

Grier started his career as an artist. At age seventeen Grier failed to find financial stability through art. In 1945 he travelled to Mexico to study fresco painting from Alfredo Zalce. He was apprenticed to Diego Rivera as a plasterer. He later became a professor at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under Arthur Lismer.

Eldon Grier travelled Europe from 1955 to 1965.