Nora Collyer

Nora Frances Elizabeth Collyer (June 7, 1898 – June 11, 1979) was a Canadian modernist painter who was inspired by the Canadian landscape, nature, and urban communities. Nora Collyer was the youngest of the ten women artists who today are commonly referred to as the Beaver Hall Group.

Early life and education Collyer was born in Montreal, Quebec on June 7, 1898. Collyer studied for nine years at the AAM with Alberta Cleland, William Brymner, and Maurice Cullen.

The Beaver Hall Group The Beaver Hall Group was one of Canada's most iconic unstructured artistic associations. The group only survived for a year and a half, but the friendships and alliances formed continued through the next two decades. Collyer would spend the summer there sketching and gardening and Margaret would visit on weekends. They had this cottage until 1967.

Collyer and Reid moved into a duplex in Westmount in 1953, where Collyer used her sitting room for teaching. Reid had a family history with Alzheimer's disease, and in later years began to show symptoms of the disease. Dominion Gallery, Montreal (1946) Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal (1964) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1969) Paul Kastel Gallery, Montreal (1971) Galerie Continentale, Montreal (1981)