Members of the Group of Seven at the Toronto Arts and Letters Club, circa 1920
Archives of Ontario, William Colgate Collection F 1066
Saturday Morning Class in the Print Room, Art Gallery of Toronto, circa 1931
City of Toronto Archives
RG 8-2-18
1885
Born on June 27 to a working-class family in England.
1905
Graduates from art school and specializes in pictorial publicity.
1911
Moves to Toronto, works at a commercial
art firm and starts to sketch and paint in the Canadian wilderness.
1912
Marries Esther Mawsen and together they have
a daughter, Marjorie.
1920–1931 Exhibits with the Group of Seven.
1929
Founds the Children’s Art Centre at the Art Gallery
of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario).
1941 Heads the Montreal Children’s Art Centre (later part of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).
1950
First retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.
1969
Dies on March 23 in Montreal.
Arthur Lismer and Tom Thomson, Smoke Lake, Algonquin Park, 1914
Photo: Bud Callighen. McMichael Canadian Art Collection Archives
Self-Portrait, 1924 Arthur Lismer
oil on board 91.0 x 76.3cm Gift of Mrs. James H. Knox McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1971.10
Arthur Lismer and A.Y. Jackson sketching the tower, Sainte-Famille, Île d'Orléans, Quebec, 1925
Canadian Museum of Civilization Archives, Marius Barbeau fonds 66130
