The Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Painting Canada. Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven an exhibition on view 19 October 2011 – 8 January 2012.
Tom Thomson The Jack Pine Dulwich Picture Gallery
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
Organized by the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo and the Groninger Museum. With the generous support of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
This exhibition will also tour to the following locations:
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway 29 January – 13 May 2012
The Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands 3 / 6 June – 28 October 2012
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD
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