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| | book review | the group of seven and tom thomson (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Three more would be added over the next decade or so, as the Group became a movement of sorts in the Canadian art scene, mixing their peculiarly Protestant spiritualism with a benevolent nationalism to create a body of mostly landscape work that ended up defining the way Canada looked at itself. |
 | | This, at least, is the conventional wisdom on the group, and it has a kind of historical weight when you consider that, as Silcox points out, eighty percent of Canada’s six and a half million population lived in small towns and rural areas when the Group was founded. |
 | | Most of the group’s core members, and Harris in particular, spent years before and after the founding of the group painting glimpses of a Toronto that’s long vanished, a place that looks like a village in some canvases, like a huge factory in others. |
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