McMichael Gallery Cemetery
October 31, 2025
Six members of the Group of Seven resting peacefully by slabs of granite quarried from the “artists’ beloved north country”
As I passed through the stone gates of the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, paintbrush in hand, I followed a well-kept, tree-lined walkway for several minutes until I reached the McMichael Canadian Art Collection Burial Grounds—known to many as the Group of Seven Cemetery. Here lie six members of the Group of Seven and their […]
February 24, 2024
The McMichael’s art collectors and founders of the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg
Toronto-born Robert McMichael and his Danish-born wife, Signe, shared a deep passion for art and Canadian landscape painting. Together, they not only ran Robert McMichael Studios in Toronto and Travel Pak Ltd. in New York, but also became the quiet champions of what would become one of Canada’s most treasured art collections. In 1951, the […]
December 22, 2023
A.J. Casson youngest member of the Group of Seven
On my fall walk with paintbrush in hand, I discovered the grave of Alfred Joseph Casson at a quiet cemetery near the entrance of the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario. Born in Toronto, A.J. Casson left school at just fifteen to apprentice at a lithography company, honing his artistic skills by attending night classes at […]
