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I don’t have an especial point to make about the group of seven that I haven’t already made in their respective analyses, but I wanted there to be a spot where you could see all the paintings I’ve so far identified in one place. I’ll just provide links here, in the order as the paintings appear.
- The Solemn Land, by JEH MacDonald
- Northern River, by Tom Thomson (honourary member)
- Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, by FH Varley
- Red Maple, by AY Jackson.
- Mist Fantasy, Sand River, Algoma, by JEH MacDonald
- Port Radium, by AY Jackson (uncertain, by likely by Jackson, either way)
- Maligne Lake, Jasper Park, by Lawren Harris
- Beaver Swamp, by Lawren Harris
- Arpeggio, by FH Varley
There’s also two pieces by Copper Thunderbird of the Indian Group of Seven. There’s also a piece that strongly resembles the works of Franklin Carmichael, but I’ve been unlucky putting a name to it. And there remain a handful of unidentified landscapes which could be more Go7s, but I’m increasingly doubtful about this. The Johnson House, Hanover, by Carl Schaefer appears in the blowjob well, and Schaefer was a student of MacDonald and Arthur Lismer, so I suspect other students of Go7 artists may reveal themselves in time. As of now, Lismer and Frank Johnston are the only artists from the original group who seem to have been left out, though Alois Arnegger’s piece of the Kaiser mountains does resemble Johnston’s piece A Lone Land. If that’s intentional somehow (I doubt it), then Lismer would be the only one without a reference, though we could think of Schaefer as an indirect reference.
It might also be pointing out generally that there was such a thing as the Sampson-Matthews print series, where the works of the Go7 were mass produced thanks to a process called silkscreening. These copies were sent out to military bases during WWII to promote a sense of the natural splendour that the troops were fighting for, causing some to wonder if the Go7 were co-opted into a kind of propaganda. But also, Sampson sounds like Samson, a figure of Christian myth for whom a mountain in the piece Maligne Lake, Jasper Park (see link above) is named for. So, while I’ve contemplated the significance of that Samson in its blink-and-miss-it appearance within the film, it could be that every Go7 piece speaks to the Samson subtext, by virtue of this Sampson-Matthews connection.
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