Illingworth "Buck" Kerr CM (20 August 1905 – 6 January 1989) was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer.

Illingworth Holey Kerr was born on 20 August 1905 in Lumsden, Saskatchewan, 31 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of the city of Regina.

His teachers at the OCA were Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley and John William Beatty.

They married in 1938, spent their honeymoon in Paris and the south of France, then returned to Montreal in 1938 on a Cunard ship.

There he undertook commissions for the Lumsden restaurant owner Charlie Wong, and exhibited his work at the Regina Art College.

[4] The Kerr’s moved to British Columbia and lived in turn in White Rock, Cultus Lake and Vancouver.

Kerr was given commissions to paint portraits of prominent Albertans such as Grant MacEwan, Harry Strom and John C.

[5] Kerr retired from teaching in 1967 and entered a period of great artistic productivity, painting landscapes and also making drawings and prints of animals.

[4] The Kerrs began to spend their winters in the warmth of St. Lucia, Arizona, Maui, Barbados, Jamaica and Mazatlan.

[2] Kerr made pictures of First Nations people, portraits, towns, wild animals and the landscapes of the prairies and Ontario.

His early landscapes show the influence of Lawren Harris, with his emphasis on design and use of long, curving brush strokes.

[1] These paintings, in the tradition of the Group of Seven, depict angular fields, rolling skies and simple prairie towns.