Naomi Jackson Groves CM (1910 – December 25, 2001) was a Canadian painter, art historian and linguist.
She studied art while in Denmark and returned to the AAM in 1936, receiving instruction from Lilias Torrance Newton.
[3] Groves, whose landscape oil paintings are held in collections at the National Gallery of Canada, the Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery and the McMaster Museum of Art, wished to paint full-time, but was encouraged by her parents to pursue work in academia due to the financial instability of an artistic career.
[2] In 1936 Groves was awarded a travel scholarship by the Canadian Federation of University Women to Germany.
The diaries the pair kept during the two-month trip were the basis for Groves' book Two Jacksons Abroad (2000), which includes correspondence and reproductions of their drawings and paintings from this period.
[6] In 1951, after completing her PhD, Groves took a position at McMaster University where she reestablished and chaired the department of fine arts, following its closure during the war.