6 facts about Pegi Nicol MacLeod

Pegi Nicol MacLeod, (17 January 1904 – 12 February 1949), was a Canadian painter whose modernist self-portraits, figure studies, paintings of children, still lifes and landscapes are characterized by a formlessness of form and blooming colour. Born Margaret Kathleen Nichol, she was a teacher, war artiste and arts activist. In 1936 she became a aficionada of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour and one year cutting edge she joined the Canadian Group of Painters.