Canadian Frank Johnston (1888-1949), like the other members of the artistic Group of Seven, was deeply connected to the environment of his vast country, reflected in this extraordinary multi-colored rendering of the woods at sunset.
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Arts Everyday Living: A. Y. Jackson and Canada—A Painter’s Country
Reposted blog. The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas.* Night Pine Island is by A. Y. or Alexander Young Jackson, who also belonged to the Group of Seven. During his long life of some 92 years, Jackson dedicated […]
Arts Everyday Living: Through a Canadian Artist’s Eyes—A Memory of Indian Summer
Reposting blog on another Canadian artist, Franklin Carmichael. AUTUMN IN WINTER A MEMORY OF INDIAN SUMMER It is only here in large portions of Canada that wondrous second wind, the Indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection,—-the temperatures; the sunny haze; the mellow, rich delicate, almost flavored air….. Walt Whitman, Diary in […]
