George Pepper
Nationality: Canadian
Born: 1903-02-25, Ottawa
Died: 1962-10-01

George D. Pepper was born at Ottawa in 1903. He studied under J.E.H. MacDonald and J.W. Beatty in Toronto before attending the Academie de la Grande Chaumier in Paris. He was greatly influenced by the Group of Seven, and his early works from the 1920s demonstrate an affinity to the Group's approach to the Canadian landscape. He became an official war artist for the Candian government in the Second World War and later illustrated many books about the war. After wedding fellow artist Kathleen Daly, the couple headed to the Eastern arctic in 1960 to study Inuit art.

Pepper taught at the Ontario College of Art and the Banff School of Fine Arts. He was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1957.

Source: Unattributed Files in Vancouver Art Gallery Library Canadian Artist Files