Influences

Work by the following artists has influenced the artist’s work:

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven – Canadian artists who established the defining look of Canadian art starting in the early 20^th Century. The Group of Seven (also known as the “Algonquin School”) was in existence from 1920 to 1933.  Most of it’s members subsequently were involved with the founding of the 28-member Canadian Group of Painters which existed from 1933 to 1967.  Members of the Group of Seven were:

-- Tom Thomson (1877-1917) – Canadian born and largely self-taught oil landscape painter who died before the Group of Seven was formed but was acknowledged by all its members to be the inspiration for the group

-- Lawren Harris (1885-1970) – Canadian born heir to the Massey-Harris fortune and Theosophist who later became an abstract painter but as a member of the Group of Seven, was the only portraitist besides F.H. Varley

-- J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932) – English born landscape oil painter

-- A.Y. Jackson (1882-1974) – Canadian born landscape painter

-- Arthur Lismer (1885-1969) – English born landscape oil painter

-- F.H. Varley (1881-1969) – English born landscape oil painter and portraitist

-- Frank Carmichael (1890-1945) – oil and watercolor landscape painter who also co-founded Ontario Society of Painters in Watercolour in 1925

-- Frank (later Franz) Johnson (1888-1949) – landscape painter who resigned from the Group of Seven in 1924

-- A.J. Casson (1898-1992) – joined Group of Seven in 1926 after Franz Johnson left.

-- Edwin Holgate (1892-1977) – portraitist who joined the Group of Seven in 1930

-- LeMoine FitzGerald (1890-1956) – joined Group of Seven in 1932 following death of J.E.H. MacDonald

Other influential artists:

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) – an American landscape painter and printmaker who worked in oil and watercolor

Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) – an artist whose paintings focused on the American West

Ed Mell (1942- ) – a Phoenix artist who paints Southwestern desert oils

Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) – an artist who worked in New Mexico, specializing in southwestern landscape woodblock prints

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) – English illustrator

Timothy Horn – a Bay Area artist who works in oil (www.horndesign.com)

Beverly Wilson – a local Napa Valley artist who works in oil and pastel (www.beverlywilson.com)

Tom Kilburn – a Bay Area artist known for his Japanese-style woodcut prints of California landscapes