Helen Galloway McNicoll

Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1879. Died in Swanage, England in 1915. Helen McNicoll RCA became deaf after a bout of scarlet fever during her childhood. She studied with William Brymner in Montréal, and then in London at the Slade School of Art and at St. Ives, in Cornwall with the British painter A. Talmage. She won the Jessie Dow Prize in 1908 and the Women's Art Society Prize in 1914. After becoming a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1913, she became an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. McNicoll, who was strongly influenced by Impressionism, painted landscapes, portraits, seascapes and genre paintings in both Quebec and particularly in France. Most of her works include impressions of an overexposed play of light.

Works by this artist
	Midsummer (circa 1909)