The Group of
Seven was a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s, originally
consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y.
Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and
Frederick Varley. The Group of Seven was strongly influenced by European
Impressionism of the late Nineteenth Century in the Montmartre district of
Paris.
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Emily Carr was born in Victoria, British
Columbia, and moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of
her parents. In 1899 she travelled to England to deepen her studies, where
she spent time at the Westminster School of Art in London and at various
studio schools in Cornwall, Bushey, Hertfordshire, San Francisco, and
elsewhere.
In the 1920s she came into
contact with members of the Group of Seven (artists) after being invited by
the National Gallery of Canada to participate in an exhibition of Canadian
West Coast Art, Native and Modern.
Franklin Carmichael was born in Orillia, Ontario
in 1890.Carmichael arrived at Toronto
when he was 20 years old and entered the Ontario College of Art in Toronto,
where he studied with William Cruickshank and George Reid. In 1911, he began
working as an apprentice at Grip Ltd. for $2.50 a week. He then joined Tom
Thomson and other painters who were training to be serious artists.
Alfred Joseph Casson was born in Toronto in
1898. At age 9 he moved to Guelph and
again to Hamilton at age 14. He left school early at age 15 to find work as
an apprentice at a Hamilton lithography company. Casson studied art at
Central Technology School while keeping his job. In 1917 he had his first
public exhibit at the Canada National Exhibition.
Lawren Stewart Harris was born in Brantford,
Ontario into a wealthy family on October 23 1885. Harris was a Canadian
painter and is best known as a member of the Group of Seven who pioneered a
distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century.
Franz Johnston born in Toronto in 1888, was a
Canadian artist associated with the Group of Seven.
As a commercial artist at Grip Ltd., he was involved with the circle of
young artists working there, whose ideas about Canadian art led to the
formation of The Group. When he joined the firm around 1908, his fellow Grip
workers included
J. E. H. Macdonald and Tom Thomson, and later Arthur Lismer and Franklin
Carmichael signed on.
Born in Durham, England in 1873. MacDonald came
to Canada as a teen with his English mother and Canadian father (1887). He
started to study art in Hamilton and Toronto. MacDonald worked at a Toronto
commercial art firm, Grip Ltd., from 1895 to 1911. There he became the art
director and is well known for his excellent commercial design work. He
supervised many artists including Frank Johnston, Tom Thompson, Arthur
Lismer and Franklin Carmichael. Mac Donald was the oldest and a founding
member of the Group of Seven.
Born in Durham, England in 1873. MacDonald came
to Canada as a teen with his English mother and Canadian father (1887). He
started to study art in Hamilton and Toronto. MacDonald worked at a Toronto
commercial art firm, Grip Ltd., from 1895 to 1911. There he became the art
director and is well known for his excellent commercial design work. He
supervised many artists including Frank Johnston, Tom Thompson, Arthur
Lismer and Franklin Carmichael. Mac Donald was the oldest and a founding
member of the Group of Seven.
Tom Thomson was born near Claremont, Ontario and
grew up in Leith, near Owen Sound. In
1907he joined an artistic design firm in Toronto where many of the future
members of the Group of Seven also worked.
His first exhibition was in 1913. Beginning
in 1914 he acted as a fire fighter and guide in Algonquin Park in Ontario.
During the next three years he produced many of his most famous works,
including
“The Jack Pine and The West Wind.”
Thomson disappeared during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park
on July 8, 1917, and his body was discovered in the lake eight days later.
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