Back to the Land: early 20th century landscapes in the permanent collection

The works in this exhibition were all in one way or another associated with the period in which Canadian landscape painting came of age: the first half of the 20th century, when the Canadian Group of Seven and associated artists brought the raw, rugged beauty of the landscape into national consciousness, separating it for ever from the more "refined" European-influenced visions of the land that preceded them. Paintings and drawings by A.Y. Jackson, A.J. Casson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Lawren Harris and David Milne were seen in relation to works by Nova Scotia-based artists such as Edith and Lewis Smith, Marguerite Zwicker, Anthony Law and D.C. MacKay, lending a Maritime regional flavour to this mini-survey of the period. Selected by Susan Gibson Garvey from the Gallery's permanent collection.