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The Group of Seven & Tom Thomson

The Group of Seven & Tom Thomson. The Group of Seven. Franklin Carmichael Lauren Harris Alexander Young Jackson Frank Johnston Arthur Lismer James Edward Hervey MacDonald Frederick Varley Plus Tom Thomson.

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The Group of Seven & Tom Thomson

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  1. The Group of Seven& Tom Thomson

  2. The Group of Seven • Franklin Carmichael • Lauren Harris • Alexander Young Jackson • Frank Johnston • Arthur Lismer • James Edward Hervey MacDonald • Frederick Varley Plus Tom Thomson

  3. John A. Fraser 
September Afternoon, Eastern Townships   1873 
oil on canvas
78.5 x 131.3 cm

  4. Horatio Walker 
Oxen Drinking   1899 
oil on canvas
127.5 x 92.4 cm

  5. “Art in Canada, meant a cow or a windmill” A.Y. Jackson

  6. Horatio Walker 
Little White Pigs and Mother   1911 
oil on canvas
65.8 x 91 cm

  7. The Canadian Landscape J.W. Beatty (1869 – 1941) • Was an associate of Macdonald’s in the Arts and Letters Club • Returned from Europe painting dark moody images of Dutch peasant life • Heard arguments from another artist that artistic expression is only meaningful if it connects to the viewer (C.W. Jeffreys) • As early as 1902 Jeffreys, Beatty, and MacDonald travelled northward to sketch

  8. J.E.H.MacDonald Thomson's Rapids, MagnetawanRiver, 1910 oil on paperboard, 15.2 x 23.4 cm

  9. J.W. Beatty 
The Evening Cloud of the Northland   1910 
oil on canvas
99.4 x 142.4 cm

  10. Harris and Dr. James MacCallum • Talked MacDonald in leaving his commercial work to become a professional painter • Harris and MacCullum constructed the “Studio Building of Canadian Art” • Harris wrote to Jackson in Montreal to ask him to move to Toronto • Dr. MacCullum offered up his summer home for the year for Jackson to start sketching and painting and hopefully convince him to stay

  11. A.Y. Jackson 
Terre Sauvage   1913 
oil on canvas
128.8 x 154.4 cm

  12. Tom Thomson 
Northern Lake   1914 
oil on plywood, laid down on wood
21.5 x 26.6 cm

  13. Tom Thomson 
Moonlight   1913-1914 
oil on canvas
52.9 x 77.1 cm

  14. October 14th, 1914 • Thomson and Jackson made for the north in their first trip together to Algonquin Park • Here is where it would seem that Thomson had things to teach Jackson • They would stay there for 6 weeks and later be joined by Lismer and Varley. • Jackson hit his full form with Frozen Lake, Early Spring, Algonquin Park

  15. A.Y. Jackson 
Frozen Lake, Early Spring, Algonquin Park   1914 
oil on canvas
81.4 x 99.4 cm

  16. Arthur Lismer 
Study for "The Guide's Home, Algonquin"   1914 
oil on wood
23.5 x 31.5 cm

  17. Arthur Lismer 
The Guide's Home, Algonquin   1914 
oil on canvas
102.6 x 114.4 cm

  18. Tom Thomson 
Parry Sound Harbour   1914 
oil on wood, mounted on plywood
21.7 x 26.7 cm

  19. Tom Thomson 
Northern River   1915 
oil on canvas
115.1 x 102 cm
Purchased 1915

  20. The War • The “Algonquin School” was just ready to make a move towards a more public presence • This would now have to wait for five years until the group members returned from the war • Jackson returned to Montreal, joined the war efforts in 1915, 1917 was made official war artist • Harris enlists, 1916 • February, 1918, Fred Varley • June, 1918, Arthur Lismer • August, 1918, Frank Johnston

  21. Back in Toronto • MacDonald and Harris would continue to lighten their palettes • The two of them would see Thomson often during the early years of war • Thomson created a pattern by this time: in Algonquin by April to sketch, work odd jobs during the summer, and then sketch till November, then return to Toronto • Controversy over “The Tangled Garden”

  22. J.E.H. MacDonald 
Study for "The Tangled Garden"   1915 
oil on cardboard, mounted on plywood
20.5 x 25 cm

  23. J.E.H. MacDonald 
The Tangled Garden   1916 
oil on beaverboard
121.4 x 152.4 cm

  24. 1917 • Thomson drowns in Canoe Lake, July, 1917 • MacDonald suffers a breakdown • Thomson ends off with The West Wind and The Jack Pine

  25. Tom Thomson, West Wind, 1917 Oil on canvas, 120.7 x 137.2 cm

  26. Tom Thomson 
The Jack Pine   1916-1917 
oil on canvas
127.9 x 139.8 cm

  27. 1918 • Harris and MacCullum headed for Algoma • Harris returned in September with MacDonald and Johnston • The “Box Car Trips” • The Following September Jackson would replace MacCullum • The first Group of Seven exhibition happened May 1920.

  28. Lawren S. Harris 
Shacks   1919 
oil on canvas
107.9 x 128 cm

  29. J.E.H. MacDonald 
The Solemn Land   1921 
oil on canvas
122.5 x 153.5 cm

  30. A.J. Casson 1986

  31. A. J. Casson, Untitled, 1966-68
oil on linen canvas
261.6cm x 200.7 cm

  32. http://www.youtube.com/user/CanadaArtChannel#p/u/0/sKjCDH_FxXEhttp://www.youtube.com/user/CanadaArtChannel#p/u/0/sKjCDH_FxXE

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