$50 · The Group of Seven in Western Canada Catharine M. Mastin, Toronto, 2008

*Price is firm. The Group of Seven in Western Canada Catharine M. Mastin Published by Prospero Books, Toronto, 2008 Condition: Very Good. Square folio. 10.5 x 10.5 in. 208 pages. Previously published by the Glenbow Museum in Calgary in 2002. Heavy Book For more than 100 years, The Group of Seven has been Canada's best-known art collective. Founded in 1920, the Group-Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank H. Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frederick H. Varley, A.J. Casson, Edwin Holgate, and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald-was recognized for their strikingly bold, modernist and colorful images of the Canadian landscape. In creating their art, the Group also contributed greatly to Canada's emerging sense of identity. In their inaugural exhibition catalogue, the Group poignantly wrote: 'An art must grow and flower in the land before the country will be a real home for its people.' "A completely original look at the cornerstones of contemporary Canadian art and the visual legacy created in a landscape punctuated by the awe-inspiring scale of the mountains, the contemplative mood of the prairies and the expanse of the north!". Profusely illustrated in color. With group's chronology, select bibliography, and list of works appearing in the exhibition.