Robert Pilot

Robert Wakeham Pilot DCL (9 October 1898 – 17 December 1967) was a Canadian artist, who worked mainly in oil on canvas or on panel, and as an etcher and muralist. He is known for his ability to capture the tone and atmosphere, especially at twilight, of the landscape of Quebec. Pilot is the last of the Canadian painters considered "to lend authority to Canadian Impressionism". He also accepted commissions as a book illustrator.

Career Pilot was born at St. John's, Newfoundland, to Edward Frederick Pilot and his wife Barbara (née Merchant). In 1910, his widowed mother married the artist, Maurice Cullen, moving into Cullen's home in Montreal. He was mentioned in dispatches while in Italy, which resulted in him being made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1944. and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Although he did at least three murals in Quebec, it is his 1953 mural for the Canadian Pacific Railway that is most widely known.

Pilot died at Montreal General Hospital on 17 December 1967, National Gallery of Canada; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Sobey Art Foundation;

Selected public collections Musée de la civilisation; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Museum London; Canadian War Museum;