Journeys

 It was a long standing tradition in the New World that artists had to learn in the Old World. Such was the case with Canadian artists, and some of the paintings and works in this area reflect that period. 

St. Mark's, Venice is the title of this 1901 painting by Henry Sandham.

A.Y. Jackson, later to be a member of the Group of Seven, painted Studio At Etaples in 1912 while in Europe.

William Brymner gave us A Wreath Of Flowers in 1884, an Impressionist painting that takes its influences from time in France.

The Quebecois sculptor Alfred Laliberte spent time in Paris too, and this work shows the influence of the Old World: Head Of A Woman is a marble bust from 1923-28

But it was the vastness of the land they called home that influenced countless Canadian artists. Lawren Harris, another member of the Group of Seven, painted The Drive in 1912, depicting the logging drives of northern places in dramatic lighting.

Winter Landscape is a 1909 oil painting by Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote.

Clarence Gagnon painted In The Laurentians, Winter in 1910.

And I finish today with Winter Evening, Quebec, a 1905 painting by Maurice Cullen, depicting the provincial capital on a snowy night.