Bertram Brooker
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Bertram Richard Brooker was a Canadian abstract painter. A self-taught polymath, in addition to being a visual artist, Brooker was a Governor General's Award-winning novelist, as well as a poet, scree
Brooker painting in his studio, 1943
Lawren Harris
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Lawren Stewart Harris LL. D. was a Canadian painter, best known as one of the founding members of the Group of Seven. He played a key role as a catalyst in Canadian art, as a visionary in Canadian lan
Bertram Brooker
…to attempt to render the mystical in art. Brooker began painting in an abstract style, and in 1927 held his first exhibition, sponsored by his friends Lawren Harris, and Arthur Lismer at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. He was one of the first Canadians to paint in this style, although Kathleen Munn, Henrietta…
Harris in 1926, photographed by M. O. Hammond
Lawren Harris in his Vancouver studio, circa 1944.
Group of seven artists: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Barker Fairley, Frank Johnston (artist), Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald
North Shore, Lake Superior, by Lawren Harris,1926