Isabel McLaughlin, CM OOnt (10 October 1903 – 26 November 2002) was a modernist Canadian painter, patron and philanthropist.

[4] Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Bertram Brooker, Lowrie Warrener, Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, came and besides advice, expressed enthusiasm.

(Her artistic pursuits are described in the 1994 NFB film on the Beaver Hall group, "By Woman's Hand").

[2] She exhibited at Scott & Sons, Montreal with Sarah Robertson, and Heward (1934); at Malloney Galleries, Toronto, with Rody Kenny Courtice, Kathleen Daly, Housser and Paraskeva Clark (1936); and the Picture Loan Society, Toronto (1937).

[10] Besides Heward, she formed a strong friendship with Housser and the two often went on painting excursions together and exhibited their work at Canadian Group of Painters shows, of which both were founding members in 1933.

[2] During the summers from 1947 to 1952, McLaughlin studied with Hans Hofmann accompanied by Alexandra Luke with whom she also was a close friend.

Some of these artists included Gerhard Richter, Prudence Heward, Louis Archambault, B. C. Binning, André Charles Biéler, Emil Bisttram, Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Lyonel Feininger, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Alexandra Luke, Peter Haworth, Bobs Cogill Haworth, Hans Hofmann, J. E. H. MacDonald, Anne Savage, Arthur Lismer, and Sarah Robertson among others.

In 1948, Housser painted a watercolour depicting McLaughlin titled Isabel the Archaeologist, Cap Chat River.