The Group of Seven 2006 Calendar Author:Firefly Books The Group of Seven was formed in 1920. At an important time in Canada's history, these talented artists applied their creativity and passion to a visual celebration of Canada as a wild and eminently beautiful land. Their powerful landscape paintings would come to shape a country's long romance with its wilderness, and consequently its sense of i... more »dentity. This calendar presents 12 distinctive masterpieces -- some more familiar than others. Founding member Lawren Harris wrote that the Group of Seven "loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." It is their shared concept of Canada as a northern nation for which they are best known. It is Canada's continued passion for the land and its natural beauty that grants modern relevance to the work of these exceptional artists.« less