The Canadian Group of Seven

“We are on the fringe of the great North and its living whiteness, its loneliness and replenishment, its resignations and release, its call and answer, its cleansing rhythms. It seems that the top of the continent is a source of spiritual flow that will ever shed clarity into the growing race of America.”
- Lawren S. Harris, 1926

Autumn in Orilla 1924 Franklin Carmichael
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The wonderful watercolorist, Sarah Yeoman, wrote us about one of the sources of inspiration to her work - Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven Canadian artists. These artists are considered to have founded the first major Canadian national art movement from 1920 to 1933 (also known as the Algonquin School). It is daunting to consider the commitment they made to painting …