Seven

 The Group of Seven exhibited together from 1920-33, and changed the way Canadian art was seen at home and abroad. There was always seven members, though some came and went to be replaced by others, and the Group were associated closely with other artists. Their art was not just about how a place looked, but how it felt.

F.H.Varley was one of their number, and this is Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, from 1921.

The Solemn Land is a 1921 painting by J.E.H. MacDonald, another member of the Group.

One of my favourite paintings here is The Red Maple, dating to 1914 by A.Y. Jackson, another member of the Group.

The Hilltop is a 1921 painting by Franklin Carmichael, yet another member of the Group.

There are a series of small canvases used for painting out in the field, later to be transferred to the canvas, a technique common to the Group. These are the works of Tom Thomson, who was himself hugely influential on his friends in the Group, but who died before they started formally exhibiting together. The other members of the Group deemed him one of their own, and to this day, the art world often refers to them as Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.

Moonlight is a 1913-14 work by Thomson, who drowned in Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park in 1917.

More of Thomson's field canvases are here.

Burnt Land is a 1915 painting by Thomson.

I finish today with a work of art by a First Nations artist, suitably displayed among these works by the Group of Seven. Spirit of the Forest- Mother Nature is a 2013 sculpture by John Marston.