Miskatonic University PressMy friend Scott James, archivist at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto (see also Arts and Letters Club of Toronto) is interviewed at the start of Was the Group of Seven Really That Great?, a podcast episode from Canadian Geographic. It’s a very good half-hour introduction to the Group and overview of its place in Canadian art.
Over the summer I read Ross King’s Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven (2010), which is an excellent book on the Group. It really brings the individuals to life: too often now they are made out to be an undifferentiated mass of seven (or ten men) who all did the same thing, but of course they were each different. I think the one I’d most like to meet is J.E.H. MacDonald, who seemed to have an awful lot of fun. “My religion is the Arts and Letters Club,” he said.