Mayer Kirshenblatt (1916–2009) was a Polish-born Canadian self-taught painter and author of Jewish origin.

Mayer Kirshenblatt was born on September 4, 1916, in Opatów (Apt in Yiddish), to a middle class Jewish family.

[1][2] He left Poland in 1934 and settled in Toronto, Canada,[1][2] where he eventually ran a paint and wallpaper store for many years.

[1][5] In minute detail Kirshenblatt painted people at work, everyday chores, as well as Jewish and Christian holiday celebrations.

[1] In 2007, he and his daughter Barbara published They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood before the Holocaust[5] (University of California Press).