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The Mighty Pen are pleased to select in the Coffee Table book category:

The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

amazon.ca: http://www.amazon.ca/Group-Seven-Tom...2129018&sr=8-1



The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL, Lawren HARRIS, A.Y. JACKSON, Franz JOHNSTON, Arthur LISMER, J.E.H. MACDONALD and F.H. VARLEY - befriended each other in Toronto between 1911 and 1913. All except Harris, who was independently wealthy, made their living as commercial artists, and several of them even worked together in the same shop. Tom THOMSON, another commercial artist, was included in this circle of friends, but since he died in 1917 he never became a member of the Group. He was important to the other artists, however, for he was an avid outdoorsman and awakened their interest in painting the rugged northern Ontario landscape.











I have grown to have a huge appreciation for this group of artists, especially since seeing an exhibition of theirs at the Glenbow. This is an excellent coffee table book with close to 400 reproductions of their work.