The Group of Seven in Western Canada
- ISBN-10
- 1552636003
- ISBN-13
- 9781552636008
- Category
- Landscape painting, Canadian
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-07-25
- Author
- Catharine M. Mastin
Description
For more than 80 years, The Group of Seven has been Canada's best-known art collective. Founded in 1920, the Group'Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank H. Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frederick H. Varley, A.J. Casson, Edwin Holgate, and Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald'was recognized for their strikingly bold, modernist and colourful images of the Canadian landscape. In creating their art, the Group also contributed greatly to Canada's emerging sense of identity. In their inaugural exhibition catalogue, the Group poignantly wrote: 'An art must grow and flower in the land before the country will be a real home for its people.' While much has been written about the Group, as both a collective and as individual artists, there has never been an examination of their work from an exclusively regional perspective. Almost all the artists in the Group visited or lived in western Canada at some point in their lives. Their travels took them to the Rocky Mountains, the Prairies, British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories and these western experiences are profoundly reflected in their work. For the first time, and in conjunction with a traveling exhibition by the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, The Group of Seven in Western Canada explores the influence of western Canada on their art. In The Group of Seven in Western Canada , Catharine Mastin, curator of the Glenbow exhibition, along with five other Canadian scholars and curators'Robert Stacey, Marcia Crosby, Liz Wylie, Anna Hudson and Ann Davis'explore the inspiration and influence of the west on both the Group's artwork and their sense of national identity. A multiplicity of viewpoints are expressed in this book as each author explores the Group's relationship with the West from their own unique point of view. The book focuses on the significant themes and works produced by the Group from artistic, political, geographical, social and cultural perspectives in order to create the first, and most comprehensive, study of the Group's western muse. With 130 stunning images and photographs to accompany the fascinating and insightful text, The Group of Seven in Western Canada is a unique and outstanding contribution to the history and legacy of Canadian art. Catharine Mastin curated the Group of Seven in Western Canada exhibition for Glenbow. The Glenbow Museum is a world-class multi-disciplinary institution that includes a permanent art collection, western Canada's largest museum, Canada's largest non-government archives, and an unparalleled western Canada reference library. Located in downtown Calgary, it is world-renowned for its innovative programming and exhibitions. Glenbow's museum houses displays ranging from western Canadiana, militaria, Africana, and minerology, to First Nations culture. The art collection emphasizes particularly the history of northwestern North America, and the historical and contemporary art of the First Nations. (July 2002)
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