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(1890 -
1945) Franklin Carmichael was born in Orillia, Ontario on
May 4, 1890. He worked as a carriage striper in his
father’s carriage works before coming to Toronto in 1911
to pursue his artistic ambitions. He soon found himself the
associate of Tom Thomson, J.E.H. MacDonald and other
commercial artists who were exploring new ways to paint the
Canadian landscape. In 1913, he went to Antwerp, Belgium to
study painting but returned to Toronto in 1914 with the
outbreak of war. He continued to work in commercial art and
painted in his spare time. In 1920, Carmichael participated
in the founding of the Group of Seven. In 1932, he was
appointed Head of Graphic and Commercial Art at the Ontario
College of Art. He died in Toronto in 1945. |
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