Nan Lawson Cheney (1897–1985) was a Canadian painter and medical artist.
Cheney was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. She studied at Boston School of Fine Arts and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She studied medical illustration at Johns Hopkins University, and worked as a medical artist at McGill University. In 1924, she married Hill Cheney. In 1937, the couple moved to Vancouver, and Nan Cheney became the University of British Columbia’s first medical artist. She held this aim until 1962.
Cheney worked later than Group of Seven members Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald, accompanying them upon sketching trips. She then worked alongside with her buddy Emily Carr.
Cheney died in Vancouver in 1985.
Her sham is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada (which holds Cheney’s portrait of Carr) and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
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