An integral member of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945) primarily worked in watercolors but this lush work – called Farm, Haliburton, 1940 – was done in the deep textures and colors of the oils he came to use.
Ian Dejardin, executive director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, which holds the work, says “this gorgeous image is very much of its date. It conveys a sunny, pastoral, ‘Anne of Green Gables’ vision of Canada.”
🖼 Franklin Carmichael, 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘮, 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘯, 1940, oil on hardboard, 96.3 x 122 cm, Given in memory of Alice and Douglas Bales by their family
See also this Art Junkie background piece on the Group of Seven
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… and thanks for giving everyone the opportunity to connect with that Dulwich exhibition…
I so wanted to see it in London, but that was out of the question. It would have been fascinating to see the hype and view the art via different eyes, not possible to do here because we’re all so used to seeing Group of Seven art in places as pedestrian as school hallways.
Yes, it’s seeing the familiar in an unfamiliar context (physical or mental) that makes it fresh… one of the Group of Seven, and I’m blanking on which one, was commissioned to tour France immediately post WWI and paint the devastation — stunning, poignant, simple — not what we are used to, not the usual northern-Ontario-etc work… therefore startling & a whole new dimension to his work
I think it was the work of A.Y. Jackson you’re thinking of – see this piece from Wilfrid Laurier University called Shattered Landscape . . . https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1089&context=cmh
yes! that’s the man, and that’s the commission — touring the now-silent front, 1918-1919 — silent from absence of guns, also silent from absence of life…