Marjorie "Jori" Smith[1] CM RCA (January 1, 1907 – November 25, 2005) was a key figure in the 1930s in initiating Canada's modernist art movement.

[2] Subsequently, her studies took her to the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and in 1938 she became the only woman member in the Eastern Group of Painters.

In 1998 she published Charlevoix County, 1930, based largely on an early manuscript of her memories of the people that she painted in the 1930s in rural Quebec.

[4] Her works are held in museums including the National Gallery of Canada, notably "The Communicant", dating from her many years at Petite Rivière St Francois.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the Library and Archives Canada also maintain collections of her work.