The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940

J.V. Rahilly was an engineering librarian in Ontario.

This is the catalogue of an exhibit during the first year of 1984, in Toronto and in Cincinnati only. It deals with the comparison of artistic interpretations of the northern regions of the world from 1890 through 1940. As such it delves into the Group of Seven and clearly shows its relationship to and influence from the Scandinavian painters, especially after early members of the yet unformed Group visited a Buffalo, New York, exhibit in 1913 to see the Scandinavian paintings. The book and the paintings explore common characteristics, and, of course, there are descriptive essays and black-and-white and colour reproductions of the works. From Canada there is the well-known Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, and Emily Carr, and from the United States there are Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the interlocking shapes of Augustus Tack. A highly useful and informative book.