Group of Seven painter, Tom Thomson

The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. In addition to Tom Thomson, Emily Carr and David Milne, the Group of Seven were the most important Canadian artists of the first decades of the twentieth century.

In conjunction with a yearlong series of exhibitions planned to celebrate the Vancouver Art Gallery's 75th anniversary, the Gallery has produced a dynamic web-based publication that documents 75 works from the collection.

Arthur Lismer (1885 – 1969) was an English-born Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven.

J E H MacDonald was born in Durham, England and moved to Canada at the age of fourteen. He trained as an artist in Hamilton and Toronto, pursuing a career in commercial art.In 1895 he joined the Grip Engraving Company in Toronto where he met and encouraged other staff members, including Tom Thomson, Frank Carmichael, Arthur Lismer and Fred Varley, to paint with him on weekends - laying the groundwork for what would later become Canada's famous Group of Seven.

Dealers in historical and contemporary Canadian Art

Franklin Carmichael

Dealers in historical and contemporary Canadian Art

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(movement, 1920-present)Around 1912 a loosely knit group of artists began to paint Canada as they saw it. Sketch boxes in tow, they journeyed all over the

Biographical sketch of a noteworthy Manitoban.