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(By The Canadian Press) TORONTO, December 6 - Following the preview of the
Group of Seven exhibition which opened Friday night at the
Toronto Art Gallery, a step was officially taken by the members of the Group of
Seven which marks a new epoch in Canadian art. At a reception held after the preview, at the ultramodern house of Lawren Harris, a leader in the Group of Seven, the following announcement was made by Alex Jackson to all present and to all Canadians through them. "The interest in a freer form of art expression in Canada has become so general that we believe the time has arrived when the Groups of Seven should expand, and the original members become the members of a larger group of artists, with no officials or constitution, but held together by the common intention of doing original and sincere work. We hope the 1931 exhibition will mark a forward movement in art in this country." This means that, henceforth, instead of the Group of Seve a new art organization similar to the group but more important, larger and expanded, is to lead Canadian art on to new and greater destinies. Present at the reception as members were Lawren Harris, Alex Jackson, Arthur Lismer, Frank Carmichael and A.J. Casson. |