The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (formerly The Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation) is a private Canadian charity[1] that provides grants to young artists working in representational painting, sculpture, drawing and/or printmaking.
[2] It was established in 1955 by the Montreal lawyer Charles Glass Greenshields, Q.C.
[1] By the terms of its endowment, it is precluded from funding the pursuit of abstract or non-objective art.
[6][7] It received the Excellence in Fine Art Education Award from the Portrait Society of America[8] in 2016 and the Gari Melchers Memorial Medal[9] from the Artists’ Fellowship[10] in 2021.
In 2023, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation awarded close to C$1.5M in grants to 82 artists and art students.