The Group of Seven, also known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of these following persons:-
- Franklin Carmichael
- Lawren Harris
- A.Y.Jackson
- Frank Johnston
- Arther Lismer
- J.E.H.Macdonald
- Frederick Varley
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| Franklin Carmichael |
Franklin Carmichael :- Franklin Carmichael (May 4, 1890 – October 24, 1945) was a Canadian artist. He was the youngest original member of the Group of Seven. Franklin Carmichael was born in 1890 in Orillia Ontario. Carmichael arrived in Toronto at the age of twenty and entered the Ontario College of Art. He then joined Tom Thompson and other painters who were training to become serious artists, joining them on weekend sketching trips. Famous for his watercolours, many of his paintings depict Ontarian landscapes. Contemporary Emily Carr considered Carmichael's work "A little pretty and too soft, but pleasant.
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| Lawren Harris |
Lawren Harris :-Lawren Stewart Harris, (October 23, 1885 – January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford,Ontario and is best known as a member the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. During the 1920s, Harris's works became more abstract and simplified, especially his stark landscapes of the Canadian north and Arctic. In 1969 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He painted landscapes around Toronto, Georgan and Algoma. His first trip to the Rockies
in 1924 soon became annual, too, for the next three years. In 1930,
Harris’s landscape paintings became simplified as he sailed with A.Y.
Jackson aboard a supply ship. Harris died in Vancouver in 1970, a well-known artist. He was buried on
the grounds of the McMichael Art Gallery, where his work is now held.
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| A.Y.Jackson |
A.Y.Jackson :- Alexander Young Jackson, (October 3, 1882 – April 5, 1974) was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. In 1919, Jackson and six painter colleagues formed the Group of Seven.
These artists were considered to be bold, because the Canadian
wilderness had previously been considered too rugged and wild to be
painted. Although his name is conventionally associated with this group, he would also remain something of a loner throughout his life.In 1925, he taught at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto; this was the only year that he missed his annual spring trip to Quebec.In 1933, Jackson helped and found the Canadian group of painters.
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| Frank Johnston |
Frank Johnston :- Frank Johnston (June 19, 1888 – July 19, 1949) was a Canadian Artist associated with the Group of seven. Johnston had much in common with these artists. Like them, in the years before World War 1 he used his spare time to pursue landscape painting, through sketching trips around Toronto and farther north to Bon Echo near Algonquin Park and to Hearst, north of Lake Superior—a source of inspiration for him. He taught at the Ontario College of Art during the 1920s. In 1927, he changed his name to Franz Johnston. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He died in Toronto in 1949.
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| Arther Lismer |
Arther Lismer :- Arthur Lismer, (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven. His best known work from the war years depicted what he observed and
learned about in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Mine sweeping, convoying,
patrolling and harbor defense. He also did some sketches of the Halifax Explosion. In Toronto, Lismer Hall, the auditorium at Humberside Collegiate Institute named in his honour. He painted one of the largest murals in Canada
for the school during the 1930s that hangs on the auditorium's walls
today. In 1967, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Lismer died on March 23, 1969 in Montreal, Quebec and was buried alongside other members of the Original Seven at the McMichael Gallery Grounds.
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| J.E.H.Macdonald |
J.E.H.Macdonald :- James Edward Hervey MacDonald (May 12, 1873 – November 26, 1932), known as J. E. H. MacDonald, was a Canadian artist and one of the founders of the Group of Seven who initiated the first major Canadian national art movement. Every summer beginning in 1924, MacDonald travelled to the Canadian Rockies
to paint the mountainous landscapes that dominated his later work. By
this time he had become somewhat alienated from the rest of the Group of
Seven, as many of the younger members were beginning to paint in a more
abstract manner.From 1928 until his death MacDonald served as the Principal of the Ontario College of Art, and he painted with less frequency and less consistent success.
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| Frederick Varley |
Frederick Varley :-Frederick Horsman Varley, also known as Fred Varley (January 2, 1881 – September 8, 1969), was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists. He was known for painting landscapes. He painted people in green, pink, or purple. His and A.Y. Jackson contribution in the war influenced work in the Group of Seven. They chose to paint Canadian wilderness that had been damaged by fire or
harsh climates. Varley's major contribution to art is his work with the
Group of Seven. In Markham Ontario, the Varley Art Gallery is named after him, as is Fred Varley Drive, a two-lane residential street in Unionville. He died in Toronto in 1969.
