Portraiture

 Today we start with this self portrait. Paraskeva Clark painted Myself in 1933.

Here we have two paintings by the same artist, Lilias Torrance Newton. Portrait Of Frances Loring is from 1942, while her Self Portrait was done in 1929.

Two works of art, linked together, are exhibited together. Gordon Davies painted the artist Elizabeth Wyn Ward in 1936 in a painting titled Gesture And Elizabeth.

Ward has her sculpture present in the painting, and it is beside the painting as well. This is Gesture.

Here we have two abstract works by the same artist, Bertram Brooker. Both date to 1929. This is Ascending Forms and Evolution.

Canadian

 A reminder to members of City Daily Photo: the theme for the 1st of May is Earth.

I left off yesterday with a work by Edwin Holgate of the Group of Seven. This is another, dating to 1930, titled Nude In A Landscape.

Here we have a portrait by Prudence Heward. Rollande dates to 1929.

Coming back into the main gallery space here gives a view of a display case with First Nations work. Most of the art seen here is by Emily Carr, who met the Group in the 1920s and is associated with them. She was well known for her paintings of the landscapes of British Columbia and of the lives of the coastal First Nations.

This is British Columbia Landscape by Carr, from 1934. 

Two portraits, side by side from 1929 and 1930, are of the same woman. Vera is the  title for both paintings by F.H. Varley of the Group.

Visions

 To start today, here we have Georgian Bay, a 1913 painting by Arthur Lismer of the Group of Seven.

Another Lismer work: The Big Rock, Bon Echo dates to 1922.

Lawren Harris was another member of the Group. Here we have his Lake Superior, which is from 1928.

Two more works by Harris. North Shore, Lake Superior is from 1926. As is High Country, Lake Superior.

An artist following in the footsteps of Harris a few years after Harris first started visiting the area. Yvonne McKague Housser painted Rossport, Lake Superior in 1929.

And for today we leave off with this. Edwin Holgate, another member of the Group, painted Early Autumn in 1938.

Seven

Yesterday I featured two paintings by J.E.H. MacDonald of the Group of Seven. They were studies for this. Gleams On The Hills dates to 1921.

Here we have three works by Tom Thomson. Though his death predated the formal organization of the Group, he was friends with them, and they deemed him essential to their movement.

This is Burnt Land, which dates to 1915.

And this is The Pool, from 1915-16.

This is a Thomson masterpiece from 1916-17: The Jack Pine.

Close by is this display case featuring the work of First Nations artisans.

Seven

This large and diverse collection of paintings on the one wall in this part of the Gallery usually has folders at either end identifying the paintings. Because of Covid, that has not been the case, and while scanning a code was available, I didn't partake this time. I've featured this elegant painting before, but attempts to find its identity in my past posts were unsuccessful.

This one I remembered the title of. Mortgaging The Homestead is by George A. Reid. It dates to 1890.

The signature on this one gave me a lead through the Gallery's website. It's Miss Audrey Boller, by Randolph Hewton, dating to 1922-23.

Returning to The Group of Seven. This is The Hilltop, by Franklin Carmichael, dating to 1921.

It was common for Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven to work in the wilds with a field kit of paint  brushes and small canvases, do a sketch of a location, and then bring that to full life on canvases in the studio. These paint sketches are some of those.

Here we have Moonlight, by Thomson, done around 1913-14.

Two paintings by J.E.H. Macdonald, another member of the Group. Both date to 1918, and have similar titles. Gleams On The Hills I is at top. Gleams On The Hills II is below it.

Closng out the day: Spring Ice by Thomson, dating to 1916. 

Contrasts

 Emerging into the next gallery space gives us this large area with a collection of various paintings on one wall, works of the Group of Seven facing on the opposite wall, and an Algonquin canoe taking pride of place in the centre of the room. 

Here we have March Storm, Georgian Bay, by A.Y. Jackson of the Group, circa 1920.

Another view of the canoe and the paintings. We'll have a closer look at three of those tomorrow.

Franz Johnston, another member of the Group, painted Fire-Swept Algoma around 1920.

A September Gale, Georgian Bay is a 1921 painting by Arthur Lismer, another member of the Group of Seven.

To close out the day, another Jackson painting. Here we have The Red Maple, a 1914 oil painting. I'm quite familiar with the river this painting depicts.