TOP 100 CANADIAN WATERCOLOURISTS
RANK ARTIST TOTAL SALE

1 Emily Carr $9,927,600

2 Edward John (E.J.) Hughes $3,201,520

3 David Brown Milne $2,864,875

4 Franklin Carmichael $1,949,125

5 Walter Joseph (W.J.) Phillips $1,515,346

6 Jean Paul Riopelle $865,645

7 Marc-Aurèle Fortin $758,200

8 Alfred Joseph (A.J.) Casson $707,893

9 Jack Leonard Shadbolt $656,023

10 Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith $638,035

11 Frederick Horsman Varley $622,820

12 Frederick Arthur Verner $599,386

13 Frances Anne Beechey Hopkins $387,134

14 Paul-Émile Borduas $291,010

15 Thomas John (Tom) Thomson $244,000

16 Doris Jean McCarthy $187,786

17 William Kurelek $178,660

18 Toni (Norman) Onley $169,414

19 Jean Paul Lemieux $156,630

20 Mary Frances Pratt $154,985

21 Molly Joan Lamb Bobak $148,171

22 Oscar Cahén $138,265

23 John Kasyn $124,850

24 Maxwell Bennett Bates $122,432

25 James Wilson Morrice $110,300

26 James Pattison Cockburn $109,995

27 William Ronald $105,682

28 Jean Albert McEwen $103,162

29 Alexander Colville $102,775

30 David Lloyd Blackwood $101,654

31 Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald $99,998

32 Gershon Iskowitz $96,430

33 James Williamson Galloway (Jock) Macdonald $85,680

34 Dorothy Knowles $80,784

35 Lawren Stewart Harris $79,250

36 Carl Fellman Schaefer $77,330

37 James D. Duncan $76,728

38 James Fenwick Lansdowne $71,402

39 Lucius Richard O'Brien $68,697

40 Henry George Glyde $68,034

41 Ken (Kenneth) Edison Danby $67,084

42 Takao Tanabe $66,182

43 Jack Hamilton Bush $66,065

44 Henry Sandham $65,720

45 Arthur Lismer $60,850

46 Edwin Headley Holgate $60,250

47 Paul Vanier Beaulieu $57,939

48 Alex Simeon Janvier $57,875

49 Eddy Cobiness $55,691

50 Gordon Appelbe Smith $52,928

51 Alfred Pellan $51,280

52 Ernest Lindner $48,920

53 Thomas Mower Martin $45,650

54 Christopher Pratt $44,520

55 Gregory Richard Curnoe $42,540

56 Frank Hans (Franz) Johnston $42,480

57 Cornelius David Krieghoff $41,250

58 William Armstrong $39,702

59 Wanda Koop $36,875

60 Alan Caswell Collier $36,372

61 Albert Jacques Franck $35,688

62 Fritz Brandtner $30,932

63 Kazuo Nakamura $30,409

64 Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson $28,035

65 William Goodridge Roberts $27,519

66 Thomas William Fripp $27,252

67 Jack Weldon Humphrey $26,111

68 Early 19th Century Canadian School $25,818

69 Alexandra Luke $24,417

70 Harry Heine $22,966

71 Jean-Philippe Dallaire $22,500

72 Thomas Sherlock Hodgson $21,205

73 Laura Adelaine Muntz Lyall $21,178

74 Léon Bellefleur $19,660

75 Donald Jarvis $19,429

76 John Ensor $18,256

77 William Brymner $17,592

78 Charles John Collings $17,562

79 Marmaduke Matthews $17,505

80 Henri Leopold Masson $17,494

81 Paul Archibald Octave Caron $17,115

82 James Edward Hervey (J.E.H.) MacDonald $16,875

83 Florence Carlyle $16,380

84 Spencer Percival Judge $16,112

85 Peter Haworth $15,749

86 Charles Fraser Comfort $15,731

87 Thomas de Vany Forrestall $14,781

88 John Arthur Fraser $14,104

89 Washington F. Friend $13,903

90 Ethel Seath $13,225

91 Betty Roodish Goodwin $13,165

92 Attributed to Emily Carr $13,100

93 Paraskeva Plistik Clark $12,925

94 Tim Gardner $12,500

95 Tom (Thomas) Keith Roberts $12,164

96 Phillip Henry Howard Surrey $11,876

97 Irene Klar $11,750

98 Bruno Joseph Bobak $11,650

99 William Paterson Ewen $11,500

100 Martin Glen Loates $11,125

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