{"id":865,"date":"2016-04-14T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturallysuperior.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:50:38","slug":"the-group-of-sevens-agawa-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rockislandlodge.ca\/the-group-of-sevens-agawa-canyon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Group of Seven’s Agawa Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nearly a century has passed since some of Canada\u2019s most famous landscape painters rode the rails deep into the wilderness of northern Ontario and defined an iconic style of art. Between 1918 and 1922, Lawren Harris, J.E.H. MacDonald, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer and Frank Johnston\u2014members of Canada\u2019s legendary Group of Seven<\/a>\u2014traveled on the Algoma Central Railway and sketched the rugged hillsides, waterfalls and autumn colors of Algoma, just north of the Great Lakes. They spent their days sketching from canoes and hiking to elevated viewpoints. MacDonald\u2019s \u201cSolemn Land\u201d<\/a>, Lismer\u2019s \u201cSomber Hill, Algoma\u201d<\/a>, Harris\u2019 \u201cAlgoma Waterfall\u201d<\/a> and Jackson\u2019s \u201cFirst Snow, Algoma\u201d<\/a> are the notable results of this definitive era of painting.<\/p>\n