Group of Seven artists

Franklin Carmichael

Lawren Harris

Alexander Young Jackson

Frank Johnston

Arthur Lismer

J.E.H. MacDonald (1873 - 1932)

Tom Thomson (1877 - 1917)

Fred Varley

What is Group of Seven

The Group of Seven was a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley. Tom Thomson (who died in 1917) and Emily Carr were also closely associated with the Group of Seven, though neither were ever official members. The Group of Seven is most famous for its paintings of the Canadian landscape. It was succeeded by the Canadian Group of Painters in the 1930s.

The Group of Seven was strongly influenced by European Impressionism of the late nineteenth century in the Montmartre district of Paris.