Group of Seven Boxed Notes
$19.95 at Seattle Art Museum.
Twenty assorted 5 x 7 in. blank note cards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box. Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven shared a passion for Canada’s landscape and a strong desire to create a distinctive visual language. Their goal was to explore the country and paint it. As they traveled north, they found inspiration for the imagery that would imprint itself on the Canadian consciousness: depictions of the rugged, windswept forest panoramas of the Canadian Shield and the vast expanse of lakes…
