The Group of Seven, once known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, with "a like vision". It originally consisted of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harri
(l-r) Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Barker Fairley (not a member), Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald. Image ca. 1920, F 1066, Archives of Ontario, I0010313
Gas Chamber at Seaford, 1918, by Frederick Varley, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
The Jack Pine, 1916–17, by Tom Thomson, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
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
Harris in 1926, photographed by M. O. Hammond
Lawren Harris in his Vancouver studio, circa 1944.
North Shore, Lake Superior, by Lawren Harris,1926