Louis de Niverville. Painter. Toronto, Ontario. Active mid 20th century -.

Louis de Niverville was an outsider artist (self-taught). His painted his imagination and his memories in the manner of Rousseau with much use of collage. His work was naive and he painted murals as well.

Ref: C. S. MacDonald. A Dictionary of Canadian Artists. Ottawa. Canadian Paperbacks. 1967.

Ref: Joan Murray. Louis de Niverville Retrospective. Oshawa. Robert McGlaughlin Gallery. 1978.

Ref: Lerner. and Williamson, Art and Architecture in Canada. A Bibliography …to 1981. University of Totonto Press. 1991.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Leah Frey Daum. Painter. Elmira, Ontario. Active mid 20th century.

Leah Frey Daum Was a naive painter. She painted landscapes from her memories of childhood in Waterloo County. Her medium was ‘as found’ oil colours.

Ref: Kobayashi/Bird, A Compendium of Canadian Folk Artists (1985).

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Tom Chambers. Sculptor. Decoy carver. Wallaceburg, Ontario. Active 19th – 20th century.

Tom Chambers was a decoy maker.

Ref: Bernie Gates. Ontario Decoys ll . The UpperCanadian. 1986.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

Ross Butler. Painter. Woodstock, Ontario. Active early 20th century.

Ross Butler was a naive artist. He painted scenes of farms and farm animals – prize cattle and horses. He was cited in

Ref: Artists in Canada, Union list of Artist’s files. National Gallery of Canada. 1982.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).

John Buist. Sculptor. Painter. Kingston, Ontario. Active late 20th century.

John Buist was a Guard at the Kingston penitentiary. When he retired he made painted sculptures in clay and wood of guards and prisoners as well as models of interiors of Kingston Penitentiary. His work is in private collections and the Penitentiary Museum in Kingston.

Ref: Blake McKendry, An Illustrated Companion to Canadian Folk Art (1999).