Kathleen Daly

[4] She studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto (1920–24), where her instructors included John William Beatty, George Agnew Reid, Arthur Lismer and J. E. H.

[4] Kathleen Daly met George Pepper (1903–1962) while they were both studying at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

[9] The Peppers traveled to the north shore of Lake Superior, then to Charlevoix County in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec in 1930.

[10] In 1933 they built a log studio in Charlevoix County, where Kathleen Daly painted French-Canadian genre scenes and landscapes.

[4] Their cabin was in the village of Saint-Urbain, where they were great friends of Alphonse and Madame l'Abbé, an extremely outgoing and hospitable family.

[6] They continued to travel widely in Canada, visiting the east and west coast and going as far north as Ellesmere Island.

Kathleen painted portraits of Innu (Montagnais Indians) of the Lac St. Jean district (Mashteuiatsh reserve) in 1936.

[12] In 1954 the Peppers spent ten days on a trawler on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, sketching the fishermen.

[7] The Peppers were good friends of A. Y. Jackson, who also lived in the Studio Building, and who had a marked influence on their landscape styles.

[5] Her work in Quebec goes beyond conventional picturesque subjects and reflects an interest in the social and economic conditions of the country people.

[7] Her pictures of Inuit mothers nurturing their children show them as sources of strength, independence and the preservation of their language and culture.

In 1975 Daly was asked by the National Gallery of Canada to provide an update to her biographical data.