MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION
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Entirely devoted to Canadian art, it is especially for its incredible collection of Group of Seven works that we come here.
It is a true immersion in Canadian art and the majestic landscapes that inspired it. Nearly 6,500 works trace the evolution and highlights of Canadian art, from First Nations and Inuit artists to contemporary painters. But the real treasure of the gallery is undoubtedly the impressive collection of paintings by the famous Group of Seven, one of the most emblematic pictorial movements of Ontario in particular, and of Canada as a whole. The Group of Seven wanted to free themselves from European influences and to imagine a painting that would be better able to convey the majesty of the great Canadian wilderness, which the inhabitants were discovering more and more thanks to the train and the car that were developing at the time. The paintings represent with romanticism, power and strength, the winding rivers, the blushing trees or the snowy mountains of the immense Canadian territory. In 1913, the artists of this movement gathered in the Studio Building in Toronto where they set up their studios. In the first decades of the 20th century, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, usually associated with Emily Carr and Tom Thomson, gave birth to a radically Canadian style of painting. A visit to this abundant collection is a must and a guided tour is included in the admission fee.
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