Group of 7 Photo Gallery
Sue and Jim Waddington of Hamilton love the beauty of the La Cloche
mountains. Each winter they study the paintings of the Group of Seven artists
and by comparing the paintings to maps they try to determine the places the
paintings were made.
They spend their vacations canoeing in the area looking for the locations
that were used for the paintings. They scrabble around the rocks looking for the
place that the painter sat while painting. When they find the site they take a
picture of the scene.
Some of the views are quite different now than they were when the area was
visited by A.Y. Jackson, Franklin Carmichael, A.J. Casson, Arthur Lismer and
Lawren Harris. The trees have grown back after logging and fires. One can
sometimes find the right place but there are too many trees to take a good
picture. Of course the artist did not want to reproduce nature but interpret it
so the views are sometimes rather different.
A. J. Casson & La Cloche
Franklin Carmichael's Rock
La Cloche Artists
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The Painting Site for A.J. Casson's ' Frood Lake' - Jim & Sue Waddington
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One of Arthur Lismer's Painting Sites for 'Bright Land' - Jim & Sue Waddington
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The Painting Site of A.Y. Jackson's 'Nellie Lake' - Jim & Sue Waddington
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Carmichael's Spot; Nina Wallace at Grace Lake 2000 - Jim & Sue Waddington
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The Painting Site of A.J. Casson's 'Little Bay' - Jim & Sue Waddington
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A Possible Site of A.Y. Jackson's 'Sunlit Tapestry' - Jim & Sue Waddington |
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The Painting Site for A.Y. Jackson's Grace Lake, Algoma - Jim & Sue Waddington |
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Building Franklin Carmichael's Cabin On Cranberry Bay 1934 - John Mastin Collection
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Franklin Carmichael Painting At Grace Lake circa 1935; Photo by Joachin Gauthier - John Mastin Collection
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Group of 7 Painter Franklin Carmichael circa 1935 - John Mastin Collection
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Franklin Carmichael & Joachim Gauthier's Grace Lake Camp circa 1930 - Paul Gauthier
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Joachim Gauthier and A.J. Casson painted and enjoyed La Cloche - Paul Gauthier |
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Franklin Carmichael, Joachim Gauthier & A.J. Casson 1927 - Paul Gauthier |
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Carmichael's Spot;Kerry Butler and Jim Waddington's hand Grace Lake May 9, 2006 |
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Joachim Gauthier (right) and Franklin Carmichael painted together in the 20s, 30s & 40s. Harrison's farm Lake Kushog, Haliburton - Paul Gauthier
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Paul Gauthier & A. J. Casson....1987 during serigraph production of Baie Fine entrance, Frazer Bay - Paul Gauthier |
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Joachim Gauthier & A. J. Casson 1986 - Paul Gauthier |
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Joachim Gauthier & A. J. Casson circa 1930 - Paul Gauthier |
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Joachim Gauthier circa 1928 heading off to La Cloche. Franklin Carmichael's car in the background. - Paul Gauthier |
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View '
Frood Lake'
View
'Bright Land'
View
'Nellie Lake'
View 'Grace Lake,Algoma' View
'Sunlit Tapestry'
Courtesy of;
Debicki, R.L.
1982: Geology and Scenery, Killarney Provincial Park Area;
Ontario Geological Survey Guidebook No. 6, 152 p.
Artists from many fields have long recognized the
wild beauty of the country in the Killarney area. Perhaps no other group is as
well known for its activities in the region as the Group of Seven painters.
Lauren Harris, who was the first member of the group to visit the area, made his
initial visit in 1918, two years before the group was officially formed. Arthur
Lismer and A.Y. Jackson frequented the area after 1920. Franklin Carmichael was
so impressed by the region that he built a cottage at cranberry Bay in 1934.
J.E.H. MacDonald and F.H. Varley also painted in the region. Visits by A.J.
Casson and other members of the Group of Seven to the area continued through the
1940s and into the 1950s.
The most readily identifiable works of the region
are Arthur Lismer's "Happy Isle" painted at McGregor Bay, A.J. Casson's "White
Pine", Franklin Carmichael's "October Haze", and A.Y. Jackson's Nellie Lake.
According to Jackson's longtime sketching companion Joachim Gauthier, however,
A.Y. Jackson's "Nellie Lake" is not that lake at all, but rather of Grace Lake.
Regardless of the locality of the lake depicted by Jackson, it is unlikely that
the ultimate result of his visits to the Killarney area, the creation of
Killarney Provincial Park, is widely recognized.
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