1. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
Lawren Harris Tom Thomson
Fred Varley
A.Y. Jackson
Arthur Lismer
Frank Carmichael
J.E.H. MacDonald
Franz Johnston
A.J. Casson

2. They often met to discuss ideas at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto
The Group of Seven at the Arts and Letters Club

3. The Studio Building was financed by Harris, and designed to provide northern light to the artists’ studios. Tom Thomson, who couldn’t afford the rent, worked in his shack nearby.
The Studio Building

4. Tom Thomson
Although Thomson died before the group officially formed in 1920, he was part of the circle of painters who travelled and painted together before the First World War.
His work had an enormous effect on the development of other members of the group.
Thomson’s love of the north country was infectious. He led the others on camping and canoeing expeditions in Algonquin Park, where he worked as a guide and park ranger.

5. Thomson’s style is characterized by:
- the use of bold pure colours
- the use of rough, visible brushwork (impasto)
- a low vantage point in many compositions
- a screening effect created by foreground tree
branches
- lake views
- pictures composed with foreground, middle ground and
background
- subject matter from the natural world: trees, rocks,
water, sky

6. Tom Thomson - The Jack Pine
The Jack Pine – Tom Thomson

7. Tom Thomson – The West Wind
The West Wind – Tom Thomson

8. Tom Thomson – Spring Ice
Spring Ice – Tom Thomson

10. Tom Thomson
Autumn Foliage

11. Tom Thomson – Woodland Waterfall

13. Lawren Harris Harris was a leader in the group.
He had more money than the others and was
able to finance the construction of the studio building.
His style evolved toward abstraction in his later years.
He travelled north of Lake Superior and to the Arctic to paint.

14. Lawren Harris – North Shore, Lake Superior
North of Superior – A.Y. Jackson

18. North of Superior – A. Y. Jackson

20. Lawren Harris – Miners Houses, Glace Bay (Nova Scotia)
A. Y. Jackson

21. A.Y. Jackson A. Y. Jackson was from Montreal.
In his work we see scenes from rural Quebec, as well as paintings from the Algonquin Park and Georgian Bay areas.

22. A. Y. Jackson – The Red Maple
The Red Maple – A.Y. Jackson

23. A. Y. Jackson - Barns

24. A. Y. Jackson – Quebec Village

25. J. E. H. MacDonald

26. MacDonald – Montreal River

27. MacDonald – The Solemn Land

28. MacDonald – The Tangled Garden

29. A.J. Casson

31. A.J. Casson

32. Arthur Lismer

33. Arthur Lismer – The White Pine
A.J. Casson

34. Arthur Lismer – Green Lake

35. Lemoine Fitzgerald

36. Lemoine Fitzgerald

37. Lemoine Fitzgerald
From an Upstairs Window

38. Frederick Varley
Varley was the only member of the Group of Seven who was interested in portraiture.
Along with A.Y. Jackson, he served as a war artist in the First World War.

39. F. H. Varley

40. F. H. Varley

41. F. H. Varley

42. Varley - Dharana

43. Varley

45. Frank Carmichael

46. Carmichael – Wabajisik (The Drowned Island)

47. Carmichael – In the Hilltop

48. Carmichael - Grace Lake