Pegi Nicol MacLEOD (1904 - 1949) Canadian

Untitled, landscape, oil on wooden panel, 11 x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left. Born in Listowel (Ontario), MacLeod studied at the Art Association of Ottawa School after World War I with Franklin Brownell, subsequently at the École des Beaux Arts de Montréal at the same time as Paul-Émile Borduas, Lillian Freiman Goodridge Roberts, Anne Savage and Marian Scott - with Edwin Holgate. In 1936, she became a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and one year later she joined the Canadian Group of Painters. MacLeod was invited to exhibit her collection of artwork entitled "Portraits, Landscapes and Studies" with the Group of Seven in Toronto, in 1938.