Canadian Identity In Paintings

 We begin today with Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior, a 1924 painting by Lawren Harris of the Group of Seven.

It is in this large space, where on one wall is a large collection of paintings gathered together.

George Reid painted Mortgaging The Homestead in 1890.

Here we have Miss Audrey Boller, by Randolph Hewton, done circa 1922-23.

La Caterina was painted circa 1887-89 by James Kerr-Lawson.

Here we see The Photographer, an 1896 work by Franklin Brownell.

Randolph Hewton painted A Spring Day circa 1915.

This enchanting painting is Jean Biggar, an 1890 portrait by George Reid.

At the center of the room is another masterpiece- an Indigenous canoe.

Here we see another work by a member of the Group of Seven. A.Y. Jackson painted March Storm, Georgian Bay in 1920. We'll pick up here tomorrow.