by Ross King
Above Lake Superior
(Harris, c. 1922), 35, 376–77
Académie de la Grande Chaumière,
214–15, 218
Académie Julian (Paris), 82–83,
118, 141, 167
Académie Matisse, 103
Academy of Arts (Berlin), 29
The Adoration of the Magi
(Carmichael, 1923), 397
ae (George Russell), 330, 331
Aesthetic Movement, 160
Ahrens, Carl, 195; attacked Algonquin Park School, 193–94, 224; character and aesthetics of, 194–96; MacDonald’s responses to, 199–201; Mercer as patron, 203; and National Gallery controversy (1922), 388–89, 390; The Road, 389
Ahrens, Carl von, 200
Airy, Anna, 294
Aitken, Max. See Beaverbrook,
Lord (Max Aitken)
Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo), 66–75
Alexei, Frederick, 418
Algoma region (Ontario), 280–82,
286–88, 308, 324–25, 352, 373–74
Algoma Sketches and Pictures by
J.E.H. MacDonald, A.R.C.A., Lawren
Harris, Frank H. Johnston (Art Gallery
of Toronto, 1919), 308–9
Algomaxims, 308–9, 332, 344
Algonquin Park School: on Canadian landscape art, 268, 271; origin of name, 127; osa’s favourable treatment of, 304, 306; postwar revival of, 296–97, 310;
in public collections, 168; renamed as Group of Seven, 330. See also Group
of Seven; Hot Mush style; Studio Building for Canadian Art; specific artists
and exhibitions
Algonquin Provincial Park, 3–4, 41,
124–25, 127, 143, 146–47, 179, 218
American Art Association of Paris, 118
Amstel, Jan van, 264
Anderson Galleries exhibition
(1919), 312, 316
Angell, Norman, 178;
The Great Illusion, 149–50
Antwerp (Belgium), 62, 264
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 109, 268;
“The Wonder of War,” 271–72
Appia, Adolphe, 370
Archer, Violet, 421
Armory Show. See International
Exhibition of Modern Art (Armory
Show, New York, 1913)
Armstrong, William, 374
Art Association of Montreal, 17–18,
80, 81, 88, 103, 306
Art Gallery of Toronto: Algoma Sketches
and Pictures exhibition (1919), 308–9; Group of Seven exhibition (1920),
327–29, 335–42; Group of Seven exhibition (1921), 351, 358, 363–66; Group of Seven exhibition (1922), 382–84, 383; International Exhibition of Modern Art (1927), 411; osa exhibition (1919), 307
Art in French Canada exhibition (1926), 410
Art Institute of Chicago, 82, 118
Art Museum of Toronto, 89, 133.
See also The Grange
Art Nouveau, 14, 70, 74–75, 158,
163, 164, 189, 218
Arts and Crafts movement, 35, 58,
98, 110–11, 321
Arts and Letters Club: discrimination
against women, 306; dramatic evenings, 165, 284; Jackson exhibition (1913), 106; MacDonald exhibition (1911), 23–24,
26, 33; membership and objectives, 23; Varley exhibition (1916), 263
Arts Club of Montreal, Thomson
exhibition (1919), 299
Art Students’ League of New York, 21, 117, 314
Ashcan School. See The Eight (American)
Asia (ship), 137
Assisi from the Plain (Jackson, 1912), 7, 80, 87
De Åtta (The Eight), 68, 330
Automatistes, 414
Autumn (Varley), 168
Autumn, Algoma (Harris), 337
Autumn Hillside (Carmichael), 403
Autumn in Picardy (Jackson, 1912), 9, 106
Autumn’s Garland (Thomson, 1915–16),
190, 364
A.Y. Jackson Sketching (MacDonald, 1915), 188
Baden-Powell, Lord, 160
Baker-Clack, Arthur, 87
Ball, Helen, 199
Ballantyne, Robert M., 42, 113
Banting, Frederick, 378, 409–10
Barbizon School, 23, 46, 117, 194, 200, 373
Bartlett, Charles W., 365
Bartlett, G.W., 241, 243
Batchawana Rapid (MacDonald, 1921), 359
Beatty, J.W. “Bill”: in Algonquin Provincial Park (1914), 127; at Grip Limited, 36; MacDowell Club exhibition (1913), 76; Morning, Algonquin Park, 167; on Mowat Lodge, 145; at Ontario College of Art, 265; at osa exhibition (1915), 166; in Rocky Mountains with Jackson (1914), 141–42; shared studio with MacDonald (1912), 59; sidelined from Algonquin Park School, 328–29; in Studio Building (1914), 112,
115; Thomson’s memorial cairn, 251;
as war artist, 265, 266, 290
Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken), 256–57,
258, 259, 265, 267, 295, 296
The Beaver Dam (MacDonald), 404, 406
Beaver Hall Group, 355–56, 383–84
Beaver Haunts (Johnston), 338
Beckmann, Max, 333, 334
Beggarstaff Brothers, 14
Belaney, Archie. See Grey Owl
Belgium (MacDonald, 1915), 17,
177, 183, 190–91
Bell, Clive, 420
Bellamy, John, 350–51
Bellows, George: Both Members of
This Club, 161; Cliff Dwellers, 361; Stag
at Sharkey’s, 161; Why Don’t They Go
to the Country for a Vacation? 361
Bell-Smith, F.M., 34–35, 141, 166, 305, 350, 391–92; Lights of a City Street, 35, 46;
The Silent Sentinel of the North, 370
Bengough, J.W., 13, 370
Bennett, R.B., 230
Bergh, Richard, 71
Bergstrøm, Hjalmar, 278
Berlin (Germany), 27–28, 29–30
Berlin, on (later Kitchener), 100, 227
Berlin Secession (formerly Group
of Eleven), 29–30, 82, 303
Bernstorff, Count Johann von, 240
Berton, Pierre, 415
Bertram, Christina, 118–19, 436n23
Besant, Annie, 330, 331, 362, 370, 377
Bey, Johnnie, 370
The Big Rock, Bon Echo (Lismer, 1922),
34, 373
Bing, Siegfried, 158
Binyon, Laurence, 37, 85
Biscostasing region (Ontario), 52–54
Bishop, Billy, 291, 312
Black Court, Halifax (Harris 1921), 360–61
Der Blaue Reiter, 86, 304
Blavatsky, H.P., 277, 330–32, 377
Bletcher, Martin (Jr.), 238–39, 240, 241, 248
Bletcher, Martin (Sr.), 244
Blewett, George, 97, 243, 395
Bloore, Ron, 414
Boathouse, Go Home Bay (Thomson, 1914), 138
Bobcaygeon region (Ontario), 396
Boccioni, Umberto, 333
Bolshevism, in Canada, 319
Bomberg, David, 268, 312–13, 334;
Sappers at Work, 312–13
Bon Echo Inn, 368, 369, 370–71
Bon Echo Rock (Old Walt), 368, 369, 371
Bonnard, Pierre, 14, 147, 158, 162
Borden, Robert, 38, 179, 197, 229,
263, 294, 313, 319
Borduas, Paul-Émile, 414
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe, 142, 329
Bourgeois Galleries (New York), 276
Boyer, Arthur, 342
Bradford, William, 18, 126
Bramley, Frank, A Hopeless Dawn, 313
Bramshott Camp, 185–86
Brancusi, Constan
tin, 411
Braque, Georges, 86, 147, 303, 333, 334
Breithaupt family, 100–101, 200, 214, 227
Bridle, Augustus: on Arts and Letters Club, 23; on Beatty, 328; on Group of Seven exhibitions (1920–22), 337, 338, 339, 341, 363, 384, 393; on Heming, 113; on osa exhibition (1912), 49, 52; on Varley,
264–65; on Ward district, 35
Brigden, Fred, Jr.: In the Hardwood
Bush, Northern Ontario, 91; A
Muskoka Highway, 135
Brinton, Christian, 67–68, 71, 73
British Empire Exhibition (London/Wembley, 1924), 390–93, 399–405, 406–8
Broadhead, William Smithson, 51–57,
60, 102, 129, 158, 164, 169–70, 236;
Boy with Goldfish, 51–52
Brodie, William, 8, 56
Brooke, Rupert, 14, 76, 127, 139, 281
Brooker, Bertram, 413
Brown, Roy, 291
Brown, Eric: and British Empire Exhibition, 391, 392, 402, 406; Harris’s donation to National Gallery, 106; ignored David Milne, 316–17; Mackenzie King on, 388; as National Gallery director, 90–91; and National Gallery during wwi, 186; Press Comments, 406; promoted Canadian culture abroad, 407; purchases from Group of Seven exhibitions (1920, 1921), 328, 341–42, 365; supported Group of Seven, 332, 387, 406, 407; supported Johnston, 353; supported rugged Canadian art, 90–91, 135; supported war artists,
257; supported young artists, 136, 168;
on Thomson’s outdoors skills, 250; U.S tour of Canadian paintings, 346; on
The Wild River, 309
Browne, Belmore, 141
Brownell, Peleg Franklin, 389, 392
Bruce, Muriel, 197–98
Bruce, William Blair, 103
Bruegel, Pieter the Elder, 264;
The Fall of Icarus, 264n
Brundall House Hospital, 225
Brymner, William, 76, 81, 167, 266, 304, 355
Buchan, John, 255–56
Bucke, Richard Maurice, 372
Buffalo, ny, 66
Buildings on the River Spree (Harris), 32
Burroughs, John, 287
Bussy, Simon, 120
Buvette de la plage (Le Pouldu), 145
Byam Shaw, John, The Flag, 313
By the River, Early Spring
(MacDonald, 1911), 23, 24, 45
Cacouna, qc, 357
Callighen, Bud, 178, 223
Cameron, Irving Heward, 380
Campbell, Wilfred, 42, 55, 137, 139,
163, 165, 280
Camp Borden, 206, 274
Camp Mowat, 5, 127.
See also Mowat Lodge
Camp Petawawa, 210, 239
Camp Valcartier, 175, 185
Canada and the Call (poster,
MacDonald), 175–76
Canada’s Morning (MacDonald), 166
Canadian Art Club, 304, 306
Canadian Expeditionary Force: 10th Canadian Battalion, 172; 16th Canadian Battalion, 172; 48th Highlanders, 144; 60th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Victoria Rifles of Canada), 174, 175, 185–86,
203–4, 229–30, 257; 118th Infantry Battalion, 239; Canadian Scottish Regiment, 292; Queen’s Own Rifles,
144; Royal Newfoundland Regiment,
220. See also World War i
Canadian Group of Painters, 413
Canadian National Exhibition, cwmf exhibition (1919), 311–14, 316, 324
Canadian School, 125–26, 146
The Canadians opposite Lens (John), 295
Canadian War Memorials Fund (cwmf): Canadian War Memorials Fund Exhibition (London, 1919), 294–97; cne exhibition (1919), 311–14, 316, 324–25; documented home front, 285; expansion of (1918), 265; Home Work Section, 297–98; influence of, 338; Konody as director, 267, 268; Nevinson in, 270; purpose of, 256–57
Canadian War Records Office (cwro),
256, 259, 265, 296, 315–16, 353
Canoe Lake, 4, 5, 125, 127–28, 243–45,
249, 251, 415. See also Algonquin Provincial Park; Thomson, Tom
Capello, Luigi, 397
Carman, Bliss, 394, 395
Carmichael, Franklin, 154; artistic influences on, 158; Bon Echo Inn brochure, 369; as boxing fan, 160; death of (1940s), 415; early years and education, 153; financial difficulties (1914–15), 176–77; and Group of Seven exhibition (1920), 328, 336, 342; marriage to Ada Went (1915), 170–71; murals in St. Anne’s Church (1923), 397–98; on northern Lake Superior (1922), 384–85; at osa exhibition (1915), 166; in Studio Building (1914), 154–55; studio-mate with Thomson (1914–15), 157–59; on Thomson’s death (July 1917), 246; on Varley’s quarrel with Thomson (1915), 168–69; wwi, attempts to enlist, 178
Carmichael, Franklin (titles of works): Autumn Hillside, 403; The Hilltop, 365; Leaf Pattern, 384; Spring, 403; Winter Evening, 166
Carpenter, Edward, 62, 95–96, 99,
165, 176, 276, 372
Carr, Emily, 30, 104, 105, 410–11, 413, 416
Caruso, Enrico, 79
Cassatt, Mary, 365
Casson, A.J., 336, 411–12
Castle, William Ivor, 255
Cattle by the Creek (MacDonald, 1918), 283
Cennini, Cennino, Il Libro dell’Arte, 222
Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design (later Ontario College of Art),
10, 21, 22, 39, 46
Cézanne, Paul, 30, 82, 84–85, 109, 147,
330, 348, 381–82
Challener, Frederick Sproston, 392
Champagne, Claude, 421
Champlain, Samuel de, 54, 139
Charlesworth, Hector: on the Algoma paintings, 309; on British avant-garde, 313; on British Empire Exhibition,
391–92, 405; on Decorative Landscape, 275; on Group of Seven, 382, 384, 387, 389, 390; MacDonald’s response to, 201; as Saturday Night critic, 193–94, 339, 363
Chase, William Merritt, 111, 194, 305, 306
Chavignaud, Georges, 47, 211–12, 352
Chelsea Arts Club, 296
Church, Frederic Edwin, 18, 19
Churchill, Winston, 61
City Beautiful Movement, 321–23
Clapp, William, 76, 304, 330
The Clearing (Lismer), 94
Clemens, Lewis W., 307
Clement family, 100–101, 138, 436n23
La Cloche, on, 52
Cloisonnism, 189, 216, 443n10
Clouds and Rock, Split Rock
(MacDonald), 59
Coburn, Frederick S., 390
Cockburn, Alexander, 44–46
Collyer, Nora, 355
Colson, Molly, 240, 248
Connaught, Duke of, 91, 144
Constable, John, 19, 24, 191
Contemporary Scandinavian Art
(Albright Art Gallery, 1913), 67–75
Convoy in Bedford Basin
(Lismer, 1918), 297–98
Cook, Ramsay, 418
Cookhouse of 156th Battalion
at Witley Camp (Airy), 294
Coonan, Emily, 355, 356, 389
A Copse, Evening (Jackson), 295–96
Corinth, Lovis, 82, 164
The Corner Store (Harris, 1913), 91
Corot, Camille, 62, 164; A Pond in Picardy, 271
Cortissoz, Royal, 79
Courbet, Gustave, 72, 348;
Cliff at Étretat after the Storm, 72
Courcelette, 220, 260
Crib and Rapids (Thomson, 1915), 183–84
Crombie, Daphne, 237, 238, 247–48
Crombie, Robert, 237, 238
Cross, Henri-Edmond, 119, 223
The Crucifixion (MacDonald, 1923), 397
Cruikshank, George, 10
Cruikshank, William, 10, 21, 39,
89, 93, 153, 214
Cubism: at
Art Gallery of Toronto, 411;
Braque and, 303, 334; Canadian debut, 312, 313; and dazzle painting, 297–98; Delaunay on, 72; Picasso and, 109, 334;
in postwar period, 334; at Salon d’Automne, 86; and Vorticism, 268
Cullen, Maurice: at British Empire Exhibition, 403; difficulty selling works, 102; excluded from Group of Seven, 327; First Snow,
135; The Ice Harvest, 135; at MacDowell Club, 76; taught Charles Simpson,
266; as war artist, 265; winter
landscapes, 202, 356
Cumming, Alex G., 159, 310
Cunningham, A.M., 223
Currie, Arthur, 262, 291
Curtis, Edward S., 126
Dadaism, 334–35
Davies, Arthur B., 276; The Dweller
on the Threshold, 277
Decorative Landscape (Harris, 1917), 275
Delaunay, Robert, 72, 86
Denis, Maurice, 162
Denison, Flora, 368–69, 370, 371–72
Denison, Merrill, 367–71, 385, 407, 420–21
Derain, André, 147, 218
Derby, Earl of, 185
Diaz de la Peña, Narcisse-Virgile, 23
Dickson, Larry, 132, 138, 233, 237,
238, 243, 249
Divisionism, 83, 119, 122, 223
Donovan, Peter, 196
Doré Gallery (London), 267–68
Dorgèles, Roland, 184
Dreier, Katherine, 411
The Drive (Harris, 1912), 46, 49–50,
106, 135, 351
Duchamp, Marcel, 78, 411;
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 79
DuMond, Frank Vincent, 117, 314
Duncan, Norman, 45
Dunsany, Lord, 343
Durkheim, Émile, 16, 31
Early Spring (Jackson, 1913), 88
Early Spring, Georgian Bay (Jackson), 365
Eastern Group of Painters, 413
The Eaton Manufacturing Building
(Harris, 1911), 3, 38–39, 45, 361
Eaton’s (T. Eaton Company), 46–47
the Eclectics, 62, 96
Eden (Varley, 1912), 146
The Edge of the Maple Wood (Jackson, 1910), 8, 88–89, 91
Edward, Prince of Wales, 279, 311,
320, 326–27, 401
The Eight (American), 35, 161,
276, 277, 304, 330, 452n8
The Eight (De Åtta), 68, 330
The Elements (MacDonald, 1915–16),
190–91, 192–93
Elevator Court, Halifax (Harris, 1921),
33, 360–61
Eliot, T.S., 17, 386
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 108, 346
Émileville (Jackson, 1913), 88