The Vancouver Art Gallery has turned a nearly nine-year inquiry into the provenance of 10 oil sketches thought to be by famed Group of Seven painter J.E.H. MacDonald into a new exhibit that details the process that ultimately determined they were fake.
MacDonald, who was born in England but lived in Toronto, founded the Group of Seven, a school of influential Canadian landscape painters active in the 1920s and 1930s who were known for their vibrant colours and dynamic forms.
Members in the group often sketched in oil paint in the field before returning to their studios to turn them into larger paintings.
The sketches are
