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A.J. CASSON'S Ontario Series
Hand sealed and initialed by A.J. Casson
in the lower right margin of the plate.
As the only living member of the Group of Seven, Canada 's most celebrated and loved landscape artist, AI. Casson has had a remarkably long and prolific career. For over 70 years, he crisscrossed Ontario , recording its landscape, its villages and rural life in a distinctive painting style that has won him international recognition and acclaim. Born in Toronto in 1898, Alfred Joseph Casson could not have imagined the astonishing career that lay before him when, in 1919, he was hired by a Toronto printing firm and apprenticed to Franklin Carmichael A prominent graphic designer and an accomplished painter; Carmichael became a founding member of the Group of Seven. Through Carmichael 's instruction and guidance, Caisson's own artistic strengths flourished and in 1926, five years after Franz Johnston resigned from the Group, he was formally accepted as the seventh member. In the fall of 1928, Casson participated in one of the Group of Seven's famous sketching trips to Northern Ontario .
When the Group of Seven disbanded in 1932, several of the members moved to other parts of the country, but A.J. Casson remained in Ontario , and continued to paint the landscapes and villages that had served as an unfailing inspiration for his art since his youth. He married in 1924, and in 1931 he built a splendid Georgian-style house in North Toronto where he has lived to the present day. The Cassons have one daughter and three grandchildren.
Today, paintings by A.J. Casson hang in the most important public and private collections across Canada ; books and films have documented his life; a lake near Sudbury and a township near Thessalon have been named after him. He has received several honorary doctorate degrees from Canadian universities, and in 1979 was made an Officer of the Order of Canada .
A.J. Casson's Ontario includes this great artist's favorite paintings of the landscape, the towns, the villages and the people that he has known and loved over his long career. The publisher wishes to extend special thanks to Mr. Casson's lawyer, John H. Pollock Q.C, for overseeing the completion of this magnificent collection.
Again, it was Mr. Casson's and Mr. Pollock's unfailing enthusiasm and direct support that made these folio's a reality.
The EDITION
Two hundred fifty.
Forty-five Artists Proofs.
All working materials and plates destroyed.
REGAL FORMAT
50.80 em. x 60.96 em. (20 x 24 inches)
The FOLIOS
Thirty masterworks requiring as many as Thirty-seven hand-mixed colors, individually laid by the Bertone™ process of solid screenless colors using special inks which do not fade in sunlight.
Hand numbered and titled. Hand sealed and initialed by AJ. Casson in the lower right margin of the plate. Sold in six separate folios each containing five lithographic reproductions of A.J. Casson's' most powerful oil paintings housed in both major private and public collections.
PAPER M. Bernard Loates, Stallion Vellum 300 GRS
M2 Neutral pH 100% rag custom made watermarked stock.
LIMITATION Fully audited by the firm, P.G. Rayson & Company
Talisman Marque Incorporated
P.O. Box 215
Claremont , Ontario
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