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Description:
A.
J. Casson was a late comer to the Group, and although he shared
some similar subjects of the Group, he maintained his own
interests and primarily painted rural scenes of Southern Ontario.
Biography:
Alfred Joseph Casson was born in Toronto on May 17, 1898,
and for more than eight decades his life was centred in Southern
Ontario.
He was a young commercial artist, assistant to Frank Carmichael,
when the Group of Seven (of which Carmichael was a member)
was finally formed. This connection helped to lead A.J. Casson
to fame.
In 1926 the Group of Seven consisted of only six, because
of the withdrawal of Frank Johnston, and the group turned
to Casson in order to re-authenticate its name.
Casson
differred from the rest of the group, not only through his
late enrollment, but also in the fact that he continued to
work as a commercial artist until the age of sixty, when he
retired as Vice President and Art Director of Samson-Mathews
in Toronto. Casson's subjects also differ somewhat from those
of the rest of the group, for he has never shown much interest
in the North Woods landscape of which the others were so fond.
His favorite subjects have consistently been rural scenes
of Southern Ontario.
A.
J. Casson Gallery
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