PAINTING CANADA – TOM THOMSON

Posted on 2011-12-19

In the early twentieth century in Toronto, Canada, the first stirrings of a new movement of painting were being felt. A group of artists started to engage with the awesome Canadian wilderness, a landscape previously considered too wild and untamed to inspire ‘true’ art. Tom Thomson paved the way for this artistic collective, the Group of Seven, and their works have become revered in Canada. This exhibition will reintroduce their stunning impressions of the Canadian landscape to the British public for the first time since the 1920s

Opposite – Tom Thomson, The West Wind, 1917

Exhibition runs through to January 8th, 2012

Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road
London
SE21 7AD

www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk