Canada
Art from Canada, from Northwest Coast carving and Inuit printmaking to the Group of Seven, Quebec abstraction and Vancouver photography.
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Indigenous nations produced Canada's first great art: the carved house posts and masks of the Haida and Kwakwaka'wakw on the Pacific coast, quillwork and beadwork across the plains and woodlands. From the late 1950s Inuit artists at Kinngait (Cape Dorset) turned drawings into stonecut prints, with Kenojuak Ashevak among the best known.
Settler painting found a national subject in the northern wilderness. Tom Thomson painted wind-bent pines before his death in 1917, and the Group of Seven, who first exhibited in 1920, carried on with bold, flattened landscapes, while Emily Carr painted West Coast forests and villages. In Montreal, Paul-Émile Borduas and the Automatistes issued the Refus global manifesto (1948), opening the way for Jean-Paul Riopelle's thick abstract mosaics. Canada also produced Agnes Martin, Frank Gehry and the Toronto collective General Idea, and Vancouver artists Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas built large, staged photographic and film works.
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