Group of Seven

You know, a Canadian, uh, like, a, an incredible artist.

Um, and then of course Group of Seven was, was an inspiration when I was in school just studying about, you know, their works and Tom Thomson and some of the...

And that, that goes, you know, it's right in line with being out on, uh, some of the waters that we're fishing.

You can actually see their paintings, like, right in front of them, like, the Stormy Bay and, uh, uh, Geor- Georgian, uh, Stormy Waters and Georgian Bay and...

Um, yeah.

Yeah, I have a few, actually.

I, obviously, I, I love the Group of Seven.

Uh, how could you not love, uh, the, the paintings that were created by that group of artists? Um, there's a, there's an artist out of New York called Ran Ortner.

That synchronicity began its magic in 1908 when Tom Thomson got a job working as a commercial artist at the Toronto design firm Grip Limited.

There he met many of the other men who would go on to form the Group of Seven, a group that stood to define Canadian art.

The other men were Franklin Carmichael, Frank Johnson, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley.

Later, these men would be joined by Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson.

In fact, as Arthur Lismer, one of the members of the group said, he was very much the, um, the voyager.

He was the adventurer for the group, and he introduced them to Algonquin Park, which of course was the subject of so many of his sketches and works that we have here in the collection.

I think all the members of the Group of Seven, that group of artists who were painting and going into Canada's North as kind of the North was opening up, recognized in Tom Thompson that he was the real deal.

He was a great artist.

I love that you brought up the art.

That was actually, uh, one of the first, uh, things that, like, made me reach out to you is when you wrote about the Pistons losing out in the playoffs and how the, the energy of that team reminded you of, uh, the Group of Seven, which is-

Hmm

... uh, several artists that I'm actually very familiar with.