Margaret Dorothy Shelton (1915–1984)[1] was a Canadian artist who lived nearly all of her life in Alberta.

[2] Margaret Shelton was born August 15, 1915, in Bruce, Alberta.

[2] She attended night and summer classes at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (PITA) from 1934 through 1943.

In 1938 she earned her MFA from the Banff School of Fine Arts.

[2] She had major exhibitions at the Burnaby Art Gallery, British Columbia in 1981, and at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary in 1985.