

Alfred Joseph Casson, born in Toronto, began to study art with J.S. Gordon at Hamilton Technical School and was apprenticed to a lithographer. Returned to Toronto in 1916 and studied with Harry Britton at the Ontario College of Art; also at the Central Technical School. Met Franklin Carmichael in 1919 and worked with him at Sampson-Mathews, as a commercial artist. He became a member of the Group of Seven in 1926 and a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1933. His paintings hang in every important private, corporate and public collection across our land, including the National Gallery of Canada.
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