Doris McCarthy

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Doris McCarthy

Born	July 7, 1910 (1910-07-07) (age 97) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Artist

Doris McCarthy, C.M., O.Ont., R.C.A. (born July 7, 1910) is a Canadian artist specializing in abstracted landscapes.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, McCarthy attended the Ontario College of Art from 1926 - 1930, where she was awarded various scholarships and prizes. She became a teacher shortly thereafter and taught most frequently at Central Technical School in downtown Toronto from 1932 until she retired in 1972. She has spent most of her life living and working in Scarborough (just outside of Toronto), Ontario, though she has traveled abroad extensively and painted the landscapes of various countries, including: Costa Rica, Spain, Italy, Japan, India, England, and Ireland. McCarthy is nonetheless probably best known for her Canadian landscapes and her depictions of Arctic icebergs.

McCarthy has also penned three autobiographies, chronicling the various stages of her life: A Fool in Paradise (Toronto: MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, 1990), The Good Wine (Toronto: MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, 1991), and Ninety Years Wise (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2004). She is also the recipient of the Order of Ontario, the Order of Canada, honorary degrees from the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, Trent University, the University of Alberta, and Nipissing University, an honorary fellowship from the Ontario College of Art and Design and also has a gallery named in her honour on the Scarborough campus at the University of Toronto.