In 1924 an exhibition in London of Canadian landscapes moved the critic C Lewis Hind to celebrate them as ‘the most vital group of paintings produced since the war – indeed, this century’. These landscapes of Canada’s northern lakes and rugged backwoods, painted in a boldly Post-Impressionist style, had been produced over the previous decade by a collective of Toronto-based painters known as the ‘Group of Seven’, whose aim was to forge a national school of landscape painting.

Picture Credit:The Jack Pine Tom Thomson, 1917, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

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