Estelle Muriel Kerr
Estelle Muriel Kerr (1879-1971) was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer. Life. Estelle Muriel Kerr was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1879. In Toronto she studied with Mary Ella Dignam and Laura Muntz Lyall. She studied at The New York Art Students League (NYASL) for about two years from 1901. She also spent two years at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. During the summers she sketched in Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Around 1913 Kerr shared a studio in Toronto with Dorothy Stevens. In World War I (1914-1918) she drove an ambulance  in France. She became well known as an art critic and a painter of children. She also painted landscapes and figure studies. Kerr was among the founding members of the Graphics Art Club and the Heliconian Club. Kerr died in 1971. Publications. Kerr illustrated several children's books and contributed illustrated stories and poems to several publications. She published: References. Citations Sources