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Canadian Winter

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20C Canadian Paintings

Noontime, Longue Pointe Village (Detail). 1919. Oil on canvas, 76.7x101.8 cm. Albert Robinson. Musee du Quebec.

In the early 20th Century, Canadian were more aware of their own identity. A group of landscape painters called themselves, the Group of Seven aimed to develop their distinctive Canadian style of painting. Most of the artists worked in commercial illustrations. Amongst them were Franklin Varley, Lawren Harris, A Y Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J E H MacDonald and Franklin Carmichael. It was the Canadian answer to the French Impressionists. There prominent subjects matters of their paintings were the lone pine, the snow and the Canadian wilderness.

There were others who were outside of this group amongst them were Tom Tomson, Emily Carr, Clarence Gagnon etc.

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Gagnon was a French Canadian landscape painter. On and off he lived in France and assimilated the Impressionist style.

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Maurice Cullen also painted scenes of Quebec. He studies in France for several years and his light-filled snowscapes in particular attracted considerable attention, among the Canadian artists..

It was said that this painting of JEH MacDonald was inspired after seeing the Scandinavian devotion to northern subject, after a visit to an exhibition of contemporary Scandinavian landscape painting.

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The Canadian wilderness was a very popular subject for paintings, reflecting the Canadian-ness of their country. .

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Frank Johnston was one of the member of the Group of Seven.

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Tom Thomson was the most famous artist of Canada and his life become a Canadian legend, often associated with the Canadian wilderness.

Clarence Gagnon reflected the French Canadian ways of life, battling with harsh environment.

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Clarence Gagnon is best known today for the illustrations he created for Maria Capdelaine, a famous novel on the French Canadian ways of life in Quebec.

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Clarence Gagnon wrote on his Capdelaine illustrations were to capture “the struggle of a brave little minority and reveals the true .pioneering instinct of these early settlers.”

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Clarence Gagnon grew up in late 19C rural Quebec. Rarely has an artist fused innate understanding with such acute powers of observation.

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In 1909, Clarence Gagnon, Charlevoix county, Quebec capturing the untouched quality of remote towns buried under heavy dazzling snow, with white hillside of a Canadian winter.

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Lawren Harris painted a series of portraits of houses in Toronto around the University Avenue and College Street, where much of Toronto’s immigrant population lived.

He liked the effects of the bright winter sunlight as it played on the facades of the houses, with their lively red trim and green shutters. For Harris, this was a distinctly Canadian scene, warm and cheerful despite the cold ground of snow and the ic-blue sky.

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AJ Casson is known for his depiction of the gentler, more civilized area of southern Ontario, areas of small villages and farms, the forests and rolling hills of “cottage country” , rather than the wild Canada.

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Edwin Holgate was a Montreal artist. Heis reputation was largely founded on his fine portraiture and interpretation of the human figure.

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Albert H Robinson like Gagnon was a Quebec artist. He too was devoted to expressing his love of rural Quebec.

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Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald was a latecomer to the Group of Seven. He had a distinguished style and sensibilities. He paintings are much more refined.

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Jackson was invited to travel aboard the ship ‘Beothic’ that delivered supplies, police officers and scientist to northern RCMP posts.

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Lawren Harris also painted this icebergs about the same time as AY Jackson trip to the arctic.

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Lawren Harris began to abandoned landscape painting and began his series of ‘ice cone mountains’ in search for a ‘deeper and more universal expression”.

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Lawren Harris ‘ “Ice cone mountains” in search for a ‘deeper and more universal expression”.

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Arthur Lismer was born and raised in Sheffield England. He spent some time in continental Europe. He saw Canada through the eyes of the French impressionists, using small dabs of pure colour..

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Jackson was widely travelled in Canada. His painted the Rocky Mountains, the Arctic, Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.

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Music – Hallelujah played by Chris Botii

The Canadian wilderness. Aurora at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Canada.

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