 Robert-Ralph Carmichael

Robert-Ralph Carmichael (1937 – July 16, 2016) was a Canadian artist who designed the image of the common loon on the reverse side of the Canadian one-dollar coin.The coin takes its name, "loonie" ("huard" in French), from the image of the bird on the reverse.The artwork depicts a loon swimming in a lake, with coniferous trees visible on a point of land on the horizon.