D. (November 3, 1896 – January 10, 1980) was a Canadian painter[1][2][3][4][5] and a member of the Beaver Hall Group.

[3] In 1922, she won an Honorable Mention at the Paris Salon while studying with Alfred Wolmark.

In 1933, at the first show of the Canadian Group of Painters, Newton's Nude in the Studio was removed from the exhibition by the board of the Art Gallery of Toronto (AGO), because it felt that the public would find it shocking since the model wore green, high-heeled shoes.

Honourable Vincent Massey, Toronto and Port Hope, Ontario,[11] and in time came to the Thomson collection at the AGO.

[6] Like Edwin Holgate, she shows a concern for solid structure derived from Cézanne in her work[14] but she also was interested in Modigliani and Derain.

[15] Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Glenbow Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hart House at the University of Toronto, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[16] the Canadian War Museum, and other public institutions in Canada.