The Enduring Epoch

• McMichael Story
• Waddington Aventure

  

  Twisted Pine 1939

  Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945)
  oil on plywood, 25.4 x 30.5 cm
  Given In Memory of T. Campbell Newman, Q.C.
  McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  1969.7.4

  

  • Introduction

    Introduction

    Read the summary of this Waddington Adventure: The Enduring Epoch

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    Twisted Pine – Bonsai Tree

    Watch Jim describe finding the spot where Franklin Carmichael painted Twisted Pine

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    Art and Nature

    Compare Franklin Carmichael's painting with a recent photograph of the same location

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    Grandmother’s Tree

    Watch Jim tell how generations of people connect treasured memories with the land and art

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    Kerry and Jon Butler meet the Waddingtons

    Hear a personal story of connections between friends, the land, and history

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    Group of Seven had a need to portray the landscape

    Hear how a spiritual connection with the land nourished the art of Franklin Carmichael and his friend Joachim Gauthier

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    Inside each one of us is an artist.

    Listen to Arthur Lismer’s revolutionary definition of an artist