Without Lifting A Finger

Have set aside Berger's essays for a time (I'm roughly half way through) to pick up a new book: Emily Carr's Hundreds and Thousands (her journals from 1927 to 1941). It begins with her traveling from B.C. to the East (Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal) largely to meet with the members known as The Group of Seven (I believe she meets with all seven) and to view their work. From 1927, Dec 5th, Montreal: Arrived 11:50 and after lunch went straight to the Royal Canadian Academy. It was a good show. The big room (mostly Group of Seven) was very enjoyable. It was the first time I have been able to sit and take the time over the Group of Seven. I studied them separately and together. There was Jackson, Lismer, Harris, MacDonald, Carmichael and Casson represented -- all except Varley.      Harris's "Mountain Forms" was beautiful. It occupied the centre of one wall -- one great cone filled with snow and serenely rising to a sky filled with wonderful light round it in...

In my brief wanderings I rubbed up against the term "The Group of Seven" in conjunction with Emily Carr. Apparently she is not considered to be one of the original seven. Here's Wiki's take: The Group of Seven — sometimes known as the Algonquin school — were a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael (1890–1945), Lawren Harris (1885–1970), A. Y. Jackson (1882–1972), Frank Johnston (1888–1949), Arthur Lismer (1885–1969), J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932), and Frederick Varley (1881–1969). Two artists commonly associated with the group are Tom Thomson (1877–1917) and Emily Carr (1871–1945). Although he died before its official formation, Thomson had a significant influence on the group. In his essay "The Story of the Group of Seven", Lawren Harris wrote that Thomson was "a part of the movement before we pinned a label on it"; Thomson's paintings "The West Wind" a...

I hardly care whether it's Canada or Canadian, though perhaps a true Canuck would. (According to Wiki "Canada Goose" has chronological precedence, dating back to 1772.) 

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