J.E.H. MacDonald
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| J.E.H. MacDonald |
| 1873-1932 |
| Canadian Artist |
| J. E. H. MacDonald was born in England on May 12, 1873. He spent his childhood in a little town called Kirkby Stephen. MacDonald moved to Canada when he was 13 (1887) and then studied at the Hamilton Art School (Hamilton), the Central Ontario School of Art and Design in Toronto. When MacDonald was 26 he got married to Joan Lavis. He worked in Grip's designing department from 1895 till 1911. There he met other artists, like Tom Tomson, Frank Carmichael, Arthur Lismer and Fred Varley. They all painted together at MacDonald's house on weekends. Everybody in the Group of Seven worked there except for A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris. The Group of Seven is a group with seven artists who painted wonderful paintings. For two years MacDonald was a book designer for Carleton. After that he went back to Grip, and became head designer. In 1922 he was a teacher at the Ontario College of Art. J. E. H. MacDonald worked for them both until he died. MacDonald thought that man reached higher spirit though nature, he showed this in his art. He became a full time artist he begun to travel more, because he got his inspiration from the country side. The more he traveled north, the better his paintings got. Algoma was his greatest inspiration. Algoma became known as "MacDonald's country". When J. E. H. MacDonald was 47 the Group of Seven was created. MacDonald was not called a "young radical". During the last year of the Group of Seven (1932), he died. |
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Paintings by J.E.H. MacDonald
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