Flowers: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson

This exhibition includes a variety of paintings, prints, and sketches. They range from small still life works notable for their simplicity and elegance, to urban scenes that feature flowering trees, to unruly garden vistas that recall the Group of Seven’s fascination with the larger, rugged wilderness. In each work, the apparently simple subject, even if seen as modest and delicate, has great dignity, and is thoughtfully investigated and powerfully realized. The flowers assert themselves in a manner than MacDonald described as “items in a big idea, the spirit of our native land.”