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1898 Toronto, Ontario - 1992. Known for: Landscape and portrait painting, graphics.
Alfred Joseph Casson was known for his watercolor paintings of small communities in southern and central Ontario, Canada. He was one of the members of the Group of Seven, active in the 1920s. He was... Read full biography
Alfred Joseph Casson was known for his watercolor paintings of small communities in southern and central Ontario, Canada. He was one of the members of the Group of Seven, active in the 1920s. He was born in 1898 in Toronto, Ontario but grew up in Guelph and attended school in Hamilton. He first saw... Read full biography
Alfred Joseph Casson was known for his watercolor paintings of small communities in southern and central Ontario, Canada. He was one of the members of the Group of Seven, active in the 1920s. He was born in 1898 in Toronto, Ontario but grew up in Guelph and attended school in Hamilton. He first saw the artwork of the unformed Group of Seven when he and his family had returned to Toronto in 1916. He enrolled in art classes at the Central Technical School and worked as a freelance commercial... Read full biography
Alfred Joseph Casson was known for his watercolor paintings of small communities in southern and central Ontario, Canada. He was one of the members of the Group of Seven, active in the 1920s. He was born in 1898 in Toronto, Ontario but grew up in Guelph and attended school in Hamilton. He first saw the artwork of the unformed Group of Seven when he and his family had returned to Toronto in 1916. He enrolled in art classes at the Central Technical School and worked as a freelance commercial designer. At the commercial art firm of Rous and Mann, Casson worked under the guidance of Franklin Carmichael. Casson learned typography and graphics from Carmichael, and the two often took sketching trips together around Toronto. Already an... Read full biography
Alfred Joseph Casson was known for his watercolor paintings of small communities in southern and central Ontario, Canada. He was one of the members of the Group of Seven, active in the 1920s. He was born in 1898 in Toronto, Ontario but grew up in Guelph and attended school in Hamilton. He first saw the artwork of the unformed Group of Seven when he and his family had returned to Toronto in 1916. He enrolled in art classes at the Central Technical School and worked as a freelance commercial designer. At the commercial art firm of Rous and Mann, Casson worked under the guidance of Franklin Carmichael. Casson learned typography and graphics from Carmichael, and the two often took sketching trips together around Toronto. Already an accomplished landscape painter, he was soon introduced to the rest of the members of the Group of Seven.... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Advertising Art
- •Art Design
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Gouache
- •Oil Paint
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Regionalism, Local Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Mississippi River Valley
Art Association
- •Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour
- •Group of Seven-Canadian
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •Ontario Society of Artists
Art School
- •Central Technical School, Toronto, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •United Nations UNICEF Christmas Card Artist
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, National Gallery
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of Special Group
- •Group of Seven: Art for a Nation, National Gallery