{"id":748499,"date":"2026-07-07T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748499\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:57:11","slug":"a-distinct-canadian-character-the-1920s-paintings-that-changed-how-the-world-saw-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/748499\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A distinct Canadian character&#8217;: The 1920s paintings that changed how the world saw Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">The group which \u2013 in addition to Varley \u2013 comprised Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, AY Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer and JEH MacDonald remains hugely popular today, as does Tom Thomson, a major influence, who died before its official formation. Their most acclaimed paintings, which include Thomson&#8217;s Jack Pine, West Wing and Harris&#8217;s North Shore, Lake Superior, have become, for many, the national paintings of Canada \u2013 embodying the country&#8217;s spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The group which \u2013 in addition to Varley \u2013 comprised Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, AY Jackson, Franz Johnston,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-748499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}