Yvonne McKague Housser

Yvonne McKague Housser, CM RCA (1897–1996) was a Modernist Canadian painter, and a teacher.

[1] She studied at the Ontario College of Art (OCA), Toronto, from 1913 to 1918, with George Agnew Reid, J. W. Beatty, William Cruikshank, Robert Holmes and Emanuel Hahn.

[3][5] In 1923, she first exhibited her work with the Royal Canadian Academy, and in 1924 with the Ontario Society of Artists of which became a member in 1928.

In 1935 she married Frederick B. Housser, financial editor of the Toronto Star and author of A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven, published in 1926.

[12] In 1998, Housser was one of the four artists in 4 Women Who Painted in the 1930s and 1940s, curated by Alicia Boutilier for the Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa.

Whitefish Falls in 1936. Top row: Randolph Hewton , Mr. Whittall, Charles Comfort , Yvonne McKague Housser. Middle row: Isabel McLaughlin , Gordon Webber, Bennie Hewton. Bottom row: Hal Hayden, Audrey Taylor, Prudence Heward , Rody Kenny Courtice , Mr. Macdonald.