J.e.h. macdonald fun facts

MacDonald together with Lawren Harris constituted the driving force and inspiration in the formation of The Group of Seven. They held similar strong beliefs in the direction and ideals of art in Canada, and MacDonald often found himself spokesman for the new artistic movement. While The Group of Seven was considered to be radical for its time, at age forty-seven when The Group formed, MacDonald could hardly be referred to as a "young radical".

Born in England, MacDonald emigrated to Canada as a teenager with his family and studied art in Hamilton.

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MacDonald became Grip's art director and today is well known for his superlative commercial design work. His interest in landscape painting involved him in Grip's weekend sketching trips as well as several other sketching clubs in Toronto. In , MacDonald moved his wife and family to Thornhill, Ontario, quit his job and began painting full-time.

Here he found inspiration from the surrounding countryside. In the next few years he began to travel north - first to the Georgian Bay area and then to Algonquin Park. The appeal of the north was very strong for both MacDonald and his good friend Tom Thomson. Thomson and MacDonald are considered to have had tremendous impact on each other's work.

After Thomson's death in , MacDonald suffered a physical collapse and possibly a stroke while working at the memorial cairn at Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. He was bedridden for several months.

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In Harris prevailed upon MacDonald to join their now famous boxcar trips to the Algoma region north of Lake Superior. In Algoma MacDonald received his greatest inspiration. For the next five years he entered his most productive phase of painting.