George Raab

George Raab (born 1948) is a Canadian printmaker who has gained an international reputation for his wilderness landscape photo-based etchings and aquatints.

Career Raab spent his early years in Toronto and discovered printmaking as a student at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. After graduating in 1971 with a diploma in fine arts, he enrolled in the University of Toronto as an extension student to study in the printmaking studio, and also studied etching at Erindale College, University of Toronto.

He is a former director of the Algonquin Arts Council; a member of the Canadian Artists’ Representation, Ontario, the founder and former curator of the Ironwood Art Gallery, Trent University, Peterborough; a member of the International Graphics Society, New York, New York; a former member of the Executive Council of the Ontario Society of Artists' a member of the board of directors of the Otonabee Conservation Foundation; a member of the Print and Drawing Council of Canada; and of the Print Club, Cleveland, Ohio.