Old Willow sketch, Susan Giannantonio
A trailblazing group of artists in Canada in the early 1900's struck out to the Canadian countryside and, after years of study and practice of sound academic painting and drawing, began to experiment with broken color, dots and dashes, underpainting, and alla prima. In an essay about these artists called The Story of the Group of Seven, Lawren Harris wrote, "When we focus our own seeing through our own creative activity and conviction, we are working from the inside, with the creative spirit itself; then the arts of the past and of other peoples become immediate, alive, and luminous to us."
