Robert Newton Hurley (1894, London, England - 1980, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), who signed his work R.N.
Hurley, was an English-born painter who, after immigrating to Canada in 1923, became known for his watercolor paintings of the Saskatchewan landscape and sky.
As a teenager, he worked multiple jobs in England, including as a form-laborer and an apprentice printer-compositor.
In Canada, he worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway[1] and as an itinerant laborer before settling down in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
During the Great Depression, Hurley began to use his extra time to paint, focusing on the prairie landscapes, skies, and grain elevators near Saskatoon.