Yvonne McKague Housser, 1897 – 1996
An award-winning student and lifelong learner, Canadian artist Yvonne McKague Housser attended the Ontario College of Art during World War I, studying under William Cruikshank, J. W. Beatty and Robert Holmes. Over the years, she took further studies abroad: in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and at the Académie Ranson; at the University of Vienna, briefly under Franz Cižek, an expert in art education; in Taos, New Mexico; and in Provincetown, Massachusetts with famous abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann.