The Most Famous
ARTISTS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Artists. The pantheon dataset contains 78 Artists, 1 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 21st most number of Artists behind North Macedonia and Georgia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Artists of all time. This list of famous Canadian Artists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. John Howe (1957 - )
With an HPI of 44.64, John Howe is the most famous Canadian Artist. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
John Howe (born August 21, 1957) is a Canadian book illustrator and concept designer, best-known for his artwork of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. One year after graduating from high school, he studied in a college in Strasbourg, France, then at the École des arts décoratifs in the same town. Howe and the Tolkien artist Alan Lee served as chief conceptual designers for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Howe illustrated the Lord of the Rings board game created by Reiner Knizia, and re-illustrated the maps of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion in 1996–2003. His work includes images of mythological material such as the Old English epic poem Beowulf (including Knizia's board game Beowulf: The Legend). Howe illustrated many books in the fantasy genre, such as those by Robin Hobb. He also contributed to the film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia. In 2005 a limited edition of George R. R. Martin's novel A Clash of Kings was released by Meisha Merlin, with numerous illustrations by Howe. Howe has illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. For The Hobbit films, original director Guillermo del Toro and replacement director Peter Jackson consulted with both Howe and fellow concept artist Alan Lee to ensure continuity of design. Howe is a member of the living history group the Company of Saynt George, and has expertise in ancient and medieval armour and armaments. Howe served as a concept designer for Amazon's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which premiered on Prime Video on September 2, 2022.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as artists born between 1957 and 1957. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living artists include John Howe.
