Canada's artists

Thomas John "Tom" Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917) was an influential cCanadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as being a member of the group itself. Thomson died under mysterious circumstances, which added to his mystique.

J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932)MacDonald was born on May 12, 1873 in Durham, England^[1] to an English mother and Canadian father,^[2] who was a cabinetmaker.^[3]In 1887 at the age of 14, he emigrated with his family to Hamilton, Ontario.^[4] That year he began his first training as an artist at the Hamilton Art School,^[1] where he studied under John Ireland and Arthur Heming.^[3] In 1889, they moved again to Toronto, where he studied commercial art and became active in the Toronto Art Student League. He continued his training at the Central Ontario School of Art and Design, where he studied with George Agnew Reid and William Cruikshank

A. J. Casson (1898–1992) was invited to join in 1926

 LeMoine Fitzgerald (1890–1956)Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (1890 – 1956) was a Canadian artist and art educator. He was the only member of the Group of Seven to be based in western Canada.

His landscapes and still lifes were drawn from his immediate surroundings—the view of the back lane outside his house; a potted plant on the windowsill. His style grew more spare and abstract over his career. His body of work includes painting in oil and watercolour, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.

Arthur Lismer, CC (27 June 1885 – 23 March 1969) was an English-Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven.

Frank (Franz) Johnston was born in Toronto and like many other Group members, he joined Grip Ltd. as a commercial artist. He studied in Germany from 1904 to 1907. Although his official association with the Group of Seven was brief, his friendship with the artists dated back over a much longer period. In 1910, he left for the United States where he studied art in Philadelphia and worked in commercial design in New York. Although an original member of the Group, Johnston's association was brief. He did exhibit in the exhibition of 1920, but by 1921 he had left Toronto to become Principal at the Winnipeg School of Art.^[1] In the earlier years of their friendship, Johnston had joined MacDonald and Harris on their journeys to Algoma. His paintings from those years express a strong decorative interpretation of the landscape. In later years, the artist's style became more realistic and revealed a strong fascination with the qualities of light. His landscape paintings became very full of images reflected on water. In 1927, Johnston changed his name to the more exotic title of `Franz' Johnston. He painted over 250 paintings in his entire career.

The youngest of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael was born in 1890 in Orillia, Ontario.^[1] His father was a carriage maker.^[1]Carmichael arrived in Toronto at the age of twenty and entered the Ontario College of Art

Frederick Horsman Varley