In the early 20th Century, Canadian were more aware of their own identity. A group of landscape painters called themselves, the Group of Seven aimed to develop their distinctive Canadian style of painting. Most of the artists worked in commercial illustrations. Amongst them were Franklin Varley, Lawren Harris, A Y Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J E H MacDonald and Franklin Carmichael. It was the Canadian answer to the French Impressionists with equally colourful styles. There prominent subjects matters of their paintings were the lone pine, the snow and the Canadian wilderness.

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Noontime, Longue Pointe Village (Detail). 1919. Oil on canvas, 76.7x101.8 cm. Albert Robinson. Musee du Quebec.

2. In the early 20th
Century, Canadian were more aware of their own identity. A group of landscape painters called
themselves, the Group of Seven aimed to develop their distinctive Canadian style of painting. Most of the artists
worked in commercial illustrations. Amongst them were Franklin Varley, Lawren Harris, A Y Jackson, Frank
Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J E H MacDonald and Franklin Carmichael. It was the Canadian answer to the French
Impressionists. There prominent subjects matters of their paintings were the lone pine, the snow and the
Canadian wilderness.

3. There were others who were outside of this group amongst them were Tom Tomson, Emily Carr, Clarence Gagnon etc.
TomThomson

4. AYJackson

5. ClarenceGagnon
Gagnon was a French Canadian landscape painter. On and off he lived in France and assimilated the Impressionist style.

6. MauriceCullen
Maurice Cullen also painted scenes of Quebec. He studies in France for several years and his light-filled snowscapes in
particular attracted considerable attention, among the Canadian artists..

7. It was said that this painting of JEH MacDonald was inspired after seeing the Scandinavian devotion to northern subject,
after a visit to an exhibition of contemporary Scandinavian landscape painting.
LEH MacDonald

8. Lawren Harris
The Canadian wilderness was a very popular subject for paintings, reflecting the Canadian-ness of their country. .

9. Lawren Harris

10. FrankJohnston
Frank Johnston was one of the member of the Group
of Seven.

11. LawrenHarris

12. Clarence Gagnon

13. TomThomson
Tom Thomson was the most famous artist of Canada and his life become a Canadian legend, often associated with the
Canadian wilderness.

14. Clarence Gagnon reflected the French Canadian ways of life, battling with harsh environment.
ClarenceGagnon

15. ClarenceGagnon
Clarence Gagnon is best known today for the illustrations he created for Maria Capdelaine, a famous novel on the French
Canadian ways of life in Quebec.

16. ClarenceGagnon
Clarence Gagnon wrote on his Capdelaine illustrations were to capture “the struggle of a brave little minority and reveals the
true .pioneering instinct of these early settlers.”

17. ClarenceGagnon

18. ClarenceGagnon

19. ClarenceGagnon
Clarence Gagnon grew up in late 19C rural Quebec. Rarely has an artist fused innate understanding with such acute
powers of observation.

20. ClarenceGagnon
In 1909, Clarence Gagnon, Charlevoix county, Quebec capturing the untouched quality of remote towns buried under heavy
dazzling snow, with white hillside of a Canadian winter.

21. AYJackson

22. LEH MacDonald

23. Lawren Harris painted a series of portraits of houses
in Toronto around the University Avenue and
College Street, where much of Toronto’s immigrant
population lived.
He liked the effects of the bright winter sunlight as it
played on the facades of the houses, with their lively
red trim and green shutters. For Harris, this was a
distinctly Canadian scene, warm and cheerful
despite the cold ground of snow and the ic-blue sky.
Lawren Harris

24. LawrenHarris

25. LawrenHarris

26. LawrenHarris

27. AndreBieler

28. AJCasson
AJ Casson is known for his depiction of the
gentler, more civilized area of southern
Ontario, areas of small villages and farms, the
forests and rolling hills of “cottage country” ,
rather than the wild Canada.

29. AJCasson

30. EdwinHolgate
Edwin Holgate was a Montreal artist. Heis reputation was largely founded on his fine portraiture and interpretation of the
human figure.

31. EdwinHolgate

32. AlbertHRobinson
Albert H Robinson like Gagnon was a Quebec artist. He too was devoted to expressing his love of rural Quebec.

33. AlbertHRobinson

34. LeMoineFitzGerald
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald was a latecomer to the
Group of Seven. He had a distinguished style and
sensibilities. He paintings are much more refined.

35. LeMoineFitzGerald

36. AYJackson

37. Jackson was invited to travel aboard the ship ‘Beothic’ that delivered supplies, police officers and scientist to northern
RCMP posts.
AYJackson

38. LawrenHarris
Lawren Harris also painted this icebergs about the same time as AY Jackson trip to the arctic.

39. LawrenHarris
Lawren Harris began to abandoned landscape painting and began his series of ‘ice cone mountains’ in search for a
‘deeper and more universal expression”.

40. LawrenHarris
Lawren Harris ‘ “Ice cone mountains” in search for a ‘deeper and more universal expression”.

41. ArthurLismer
Arthur Lismer was born and raised in Sheffield England. He spent some time in continental Europe. He saw Canada
through the eyes of the French impressionists, using small dabs of pure colour..

42. AYJackson
Jackson was widely travelled in Canada. His painted the Rocky Mountains, the Arctic, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

43. LEHMacDonald

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The Canadian wilderness. Aurora at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Canada.

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