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Tom Thomson
Avid outdoorsman Tom THE GROUP
Thomson (1877–1917) was OF SEVEN
an esteemed 20th-century From 1920 to 1931,
Canadian painter. He was the Group of Seven
the first artist to attempt to founded a distinctive
express a sense of national Canadian art move-
identity with his distinctive, ment based on a love of
brightly colored landscapes their country’s natural
of Northern Ontario, and beauty. These artists,
he greatly influenced among them J.E.H.
the country’s most MacDonald, Lawren
celebra ted group Harris, A.Y. Jackson and
of painters, Frank Johnston, used
the Group luminous colors and
of Seven. visible brushstrokes to
depict their favorite
places in Nova Scotia,
Ontario, and Quebec
wildernesses. The
Art Gallery of Ontario
A Northern in Toronto (p182) has
Canadian Lake a permanent and
(c 1915), by Group extensive display of
of Seven painter their paintings.
Tom Thomson

TOP ART Women studying paintings
3 COLLECTIONS by Emily Carr, on display at
Vancouver Art Gallery
Musée d’Art
Contemporain
de Montréal
This contemporary art
museum displays works
by Canada’s top modern
artists (p244).

National Gallery
of Canada
Home to the country’s
biggest collection of
work by Canadian
artists (p214).
Vancouver
Art Gallery
This is the largest art
gallery in Western
Canada, with a fine
collection of Emily
Carr’s best works (p86).

Emily Carr
Born in Victoria, Emily Carr (1871–1945) was Canada’s
first prominent female artist and is still considered
one of its greatest painters. Her early works depicted
the west coast Salish people and their totem poles.
She went on to produce many remarkable landscapes
featuring Canada’s verdant forests.
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