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The Art History Archive - Canadian Art
The Group of Seven
Franklin Carmichael
Lawren S. Harris
Alexander Young Jackson
Frank H.
Johnston
Arthur Lismer
J.E.H. MacDonald
Frederick H. Varley
Canadian Landscape Artist
Biography by Brandi Leigh -
Frank Johnston was born June 19th, in Toronto Ontario. As a young man out of high school he began to work as a commercial artist at Grip Limited.
He started working with both MacDonald and Thomson, and later Lismer and Carmichael also signed on.
Group of seven paintings imagesIt was here that he met the founding fathers of the Group of Seven.
Johnston also was a member of the Arts Letters Club, a group of a hundred men who would meet regularly to discuss conversation and art. The purpose of this group was to create a place where people with different interests could meet and discuss their own artistic creativity in many different arts: Literature, Architecture, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Photography an
