Alfred Joseph Casson

'Hills at Baptiste Lake' Limited Edition Lithograph by Group of 7 Artist

1990

After the original oil painting 'Lake of Two Rivers' this piece is one of 51 lithographs included in 'Casson's Cassons Vol. 1' printed in 1990 by Paul Duval and AJ Casson in Toronto....

Capturing a moment in time dockside in a bayside town, PC Sheppard brings us into a slower pace of life. A leisure boat can be seen moored to the dock with its captain seated...

When the world thinks about the famous Group of Seven, this is likely the kind of image they recall—the quiet majesty of the Canadian wilderness. This lithograph by one of its youngest members, Alfred Joseph Casson is one of many classic landscapes he painted of the north—mountains, lakes, bare trees in the foreground rendered in his favoured bright palette of autumn colours—red, yellow, orange, a touch of green, and deep blue lakes against a cloudy white sky. Casson was an avid canoeist and spent many hours camping and drawing in northern Ontario often alongside fellow members of the Group. “I had to develop my own style. I began to dig out places of my own...” A. J. Casson He moved on to two commercial art firms in Toronto where he worked as an assistant to the artist Franklin Carmichael, one of the founding members of the renowned Group of Seven, (A group of Canadian landscape painters that included Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and A. Y. Jackson.). Carmichael encouraged him to sketch and paint on his own. Casson was invited to join the Group of Seven in the 1920’s with whom he painted for years. Following their demise, he formed the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour...

A charming and captivating watercolour painting, depicting a landscape view with mountains in the distance. Signed and inscribed indistinctly to the lower right-hand corner. Date is ...