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The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
Lawren Harris Tom Thomson Fred Varley A.Y. Jackson Arthur Lismer Frank Carmichael J.E.H. MacDonald Franz Johnston A.J. Casson
They often met to discuss ideas at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto
The Studio Building was financed by Harris, and designed to provide northern light to the artists’ studios. Tom Thomson, who couldn’t afford the rent, worked
in his shack nearby.
Tom Thomson
Although Thomson died before the group officially formed in 1920, he was part of the circle of painters who travelled and painted together before the First World War.
His work had an enormous effect on the development of other members of the group.
Thomson’s love of the north country was infectious. He led the others on camping and canoeing expeditions in Algonquin Park, where he worked as a guide and park ranger.
Thomson’s style is characterized by:
- the use of bold pure colours
- the use of rough, visible brushwork (impasto)
- a low vantage point in many compositions
- a screening effect created by foreground tree
branches
- lake views
- pictures composed with foreground, middle ground and
background
- subject matter from the natural world: trees, rocks,
water, sky
Tom Thomson - The Jack Pine
Tom Thomson – The West Wind
Tom Thomson – Spring Ice
• Tom Thomson
• Autumn Foliage
Tom Thomson – Woodland Waterfall
Lawren Harris
Harris was a leader in the group. He had more money than the others and was
able to finance the construction of the studio building.
His style evolved toward abstraction in his later years.
He travelled north of Lake Superior and to the Arctic to paint.
Lawren Harris – North Shore, Lake Superior
Lawren Harris – Miners Houses, Glace Bay (Nova Scotia)
A.Y. Jackson
A. Y. Jackson was from Montreal. In his work we see scenes from rural Quebec,
as well as paintings from the Algonquin Park and Georgian Bay areas.
A. Y. Jackson – The Red Maple
A. Y. Jackson - Barns
A. Y. Jackson – Quebec Village
J. E. H. MacDonald
MacDonald – Montreal River
MacDonald – The Solemn Land
MacDonald – The Tangled Garden
A.J. Casson
Arthur Lismer
Arthur Lismer – The White Pine
Arthur Lismer – Green Lake
Lemoine Fitzgerald
Lemoine Fitzgerald
• Lemoine Fitzgerald
• From an Upstairs Window
Frederick Varley
Varley was the only member of the Group of Seven who was interested in portraiture.
Along with A.Y. Jackson, he served as a war artist in the First World War.
F. H. Varley
• F. H. Varley
F. H. Varley
Varley - Dharana
Varley
Frank Carmichael
Carmichael – Wabajisik (The Drowned Island)
Carmichael – In the Hilltop
Carmichael - Grace Lake