The Rise Of The Group Of Seven

 We begin today with a parka, dating around 1916, by an unknown Inuit artist.

Lawren Harris was another member of the Group of Seven. This is his 1912 painting The Drive.

Maurice Cullen painted Winter Evening, Quebec around 1905. This looks across the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City, which occupies the high ground.

Two paintings are exhibited beside each other. This first one is Waiting, by Kathleen Moir Morris.

Its counterpart is A Laurentian Homestead, circa 1919, by Clarence Gagnon.

Mary Wrinch painted Snow Magic in 1918.

Here is another work by Kathleen Moir Morris. Byward Market, Ottawa was painted around 1927.

March Evening, Northland is a 1914 painting by J.E.H. Macdonald, yet another member of the Group of Seven.

The Group of Seven exhibited formally together from 1920-33. The membership changed through those years, but they started out as friends years beforehand. One member of that friendship died before they became a group, but is considered as one of them. Here we have two works. A.Y. Jackson painted Cacouna in 1921. Snow And Rocks, at bottom, is by Tom Thomson, a 1916 work. It was Thomson who died before the Group formalized itself, but who was a huge influence on the others in terms of the source of their inspiration- the Canadian outdoors.

Lawren Harris painted Winter Morning in 1914.

At top, we have In The Woods, an undated work by Thomson. Below it is Study For Sumacs, by Franklin Carmichael, yet another member of the Group of Seven.