"A group of young Canadian painters came together, ... drawn by the irresistible urge to replace this 'foreign-begotten technique' by a way of painting dictated by Canada itself." —Lawren S. Harris In the 1910s, Tom Thomson and seven other artists — Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and F.H. Varley — began exploring and painting the landscapes of Algonquin Park and Georgian Bay, Ontario. Although the Group officially had no women

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