Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877 - July 8, 1917) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He was closely associated with the painters who later became the Group of Seven, but died under mysterious circumstances before it formed.

Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer. She was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and moved to San Francisco in 1890 to study art after the death of her parents. In 1899 she travelled to England to deepen her studies, where she spent time at the Westminster School of Art in London and at various studio schools in Cornwall, Bushey, Hertfordshire, San Francisco, and elsewhere.

Lawren Stewart Harris (October 23, 1885 - January 29, 1970) was a Canadian painter. He was born in Brantford, Ontario and is best known as a member of the Group of Seven who pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. A. Y. Jackson has been quoted as saying that Harris provided the stimulus for the Group of Seven. During the 1920s, Harris' works became more abstract and simplified, …

Alexander Young Jackson, CC, CMG (born October 3, 1882 in Montreal, Quebec, died April 5, 1974 in Kleinburg, Ontario) was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.

Arthur Lismer, C.C. (June 27, 1885 - March 23, 1969) was a Canadian painter and member of the Group of Seven Born in Sheffield, England, he immigrated from England to Canada in 1911. He settled in Toronto, Ontario and took a job with Grip - a commercial design company. The collaboration of four artists employed at Grip gradually evolved into as the "Group of Seven", easily the most famous art movement in Canadian history.

Franklin Carmichael (May 4 1890-October 24 1945) was a Canadian artist. He was the youngest original member of the Group of Seven.

Alfred Joseph Casson, OC (May 17 1898 - February 20 1992) was a member of the Canadian group of painters, the Group of Seven. He joined the group in 1926 after an invitation from Franklin Carmichael. Casson is best know for his depiction of landscapes, forests and farms of southern Ontario, and being the youngest member of the Group of Seven.

Frederick Horsman Varley, also known as Fred Varley, (January 2, 1881-September 8, 1969) was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven artists. Varley was born in Sheffield, England in 1881 and studied art in Sheffield and in Belgium. He came to Canada in 1912 on the advice of another Sheffield native, Arthur Lismer, and found work at Grip Ltd.. He served in the First World War and painted scenes of combat from his experiences of the time.

Edwin Holgate (born in Allandale, Ontario on August 19 1892; died in Montreal, Quebec on May 21 1977), was a Canadian artist, painter and engraver. Holgate played a major role in Montreal's art community, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, where he both studied and taught. He was known primarily as a portraitist and for a number of female nudes in outdoor settings that he painted during the 1930s.

Robert Bateman is a Canadian naturalist. He was born in Toronto. Even as a child he was interested in art and wildlife. He found inspiration from the Group of Seven, making abstract paintings of nature. It wasn’t until the mid 1960’s that he changed to his present style, realism. Bateman was always interested in art, but he never intended on making a living from it. He was fascinated by the natural world in his childhood.

Frank Johnston (June 19 1888 - July 19 1949) was a Canadian artist associated with the Group of Seven. He was born in Toronto in 1888. Although his official association with the Group of Seven was brief, his friendship with the artists dated back over a much longer period. As a commercial artist at Grip Ltd., he was involved with the circle of young artists working there whose ideas about Canadian art led to the formation of The Group.

David Milne, (January 8, 1882-December 26,1953) Canadian Painter, Printmaker, Writer David Milne was born in the southwestern Ontario village of Burgoyne in 1882. He grew up in the country and returned to Canada after studying at the Art Students League of New York, where he achieved early success as a painter. His work as a war artist in England and France in 1919 also attracted the attention of critics in London.

Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald was a Canadian artist, a member of the Group of Seven. He was born in Winnipeg in 1890 and studied art in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh and New York City. In 1924, he began teaching at the Winnipeg School of Art; he was principal of the school from 1929 to 1947. He exhibited works in two shows with the Group of Seven in 1930 and was invited to become a member of the Group in 1932 when J. E. H. MacDonald died. He was a founding member of its successor, …

James Edward Hervey MacDonald (May 12 1873-November 26 1932) was a member of the famous Group of Seven Canadian artists.

Edward John Hughes, CM, OBC (February 17, 1913 - January 5, 2007) was a Canadian artist. Hughes was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent a significant part of his childood in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Raised during the Depression he studied at the Vancouver School of Applied Art and Design where he graduated in 1933. His talent was recognized early, one of his teachers was Frederick Varley of the Group of Seven (artists), and another member, Lawren Harris, …

Thoreau MacDonald (born April 21, 1901 at Toronto, Ontario; died May 30, 1989 at Toronto) was a Canadian illustrator, designer and painter. MacDonald was the son of Group of Seven member J. E. H. MacDonald. He was mainly self-taught, but did work with his father. MacDonald was colour blind, as a result of which he worked primarily in black and white. As an illustrator, MacDonald worked for the Ryerson Press and "Canadian Forum" magazine.

Anne Savage was a Canadian painter and art teacher. Born Annie Douglas Savage in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she grew up in what was then the rural area of Dorval, Quebec. She spent her summers at the family cottage in the Laurentian mountains where she developed a love of her surroundings that became a source of inspiration as an artist.

Pegi Nicol MacLeod, born Margaret Kathleen (Nicol) MacLeod (4 January1904 - 12 February1949), was a Canadian member of the first wave of artists of Canadian modernism painting. She was born in Listowel, Ontario and was a pupil of Franklin Brownell in Ottawa. Successively she studied at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts in Montreal. In 1932 won the Willingdon Arts Competition prize for painting.

Harry Adaskin (October 6, 1901 - April 7, 1994) was a Canadian violinist, academic, and radio broadcaster. Born to a Jewish family in Riga, Russian Empire (now Latvia), he emigrated with his family to Toronto. At the age of twelve, he started at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1923, he formed the Hart House String Quartet and played second violin. He was the host of several CBC Radio programs, including "Musically Speaking" and "Tuesday Night".

John M. Lyle (1872-1945) was a Canadian architect in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century Toronto. Lyle was born in Connor, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on November 13, 1872. He came to Canada as a young child, in 1878. and grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, where his father, Rev. Dr. Samuel Lyle, was minister of Central Presbyterian Church. He attended the Hamilton School of Art. He trained as an architect at Yale University, enrolling in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, …

Brother Twelve, also known as Edward Arthur Wilson, was the leader of a religious movement called the Aquarian Foundation. Wilson was born in Birmingham, England and began his recruitment of followers in the UK, but soon moved his group to De Courcy Island off the coast of Vancouver Island. He attracted a large following of American devotees, many of whom came from California to live at his headquarters.

Walter Tandy Murch (1907-1967) was a painter whose still life paintings of machine parts, brick fragments, clocks, broken dolls, hovering light bulbs and glowing lemons are an unusual combination of realism and abstraction. His style of painting objects as though they are being seen through frosted glass has been compared to 18th century painters such as Chardin, while his oddly marred and pitted surfaces tend to evoke the 20th century's abstract expressionists.

Cecil A. Broadhurst (May 8, 1903) - (December 16, 1981) was a Canadian artist, songwriter, actor and playwright, who had a passionate interest in and love for all things Western. At age 15 he began his lifelong commitment to painting, studying under LeMoine Fitzgerald and Frank Franz Johnston A.R.C.A. members of Canada's renowned Group of Seven (artists). In 1932 he launched out on his own, …

Diane Romano Diane Romano currently holds the position of President & COO of HudsonYards. She previously held the position of Group Managing Director of Schawk, Inc. and prior to that, the position of President, Media & Entertainment Group of Seven Worldwide. Ms. Romano began her graphic arts career in 1967 as a Draftsman.

C. Randall Henning , visiting fellow, has been associated with the Institute since 1986. He serves on the faculty of the School of International Service, American University. Henning specializes in the politics and institutions of international economic relations, international and comparative political economy, and regional integration.

Norman Ortiz Norman Ortiz graduated from the art program at Central Technical School in Toronto where he was taught by Doris McCarthy (a student of the Group of Seven), Carl Shaffer, and Peter Howarth. After his service in WWII, he graduated from the Ontario College of Art and became a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.

Peter Rose is a member of the Training and Professional Development Committee of the Institute of Public Relations and of the Court of the City of London Guild of Public Relations Practitioners. He has been awarded the status of Accredited Practitioner by the IPR.

Harry Adaskin. Violinist, teacher, broadcaster, b Riga, Latvia, 6 Oct 1901, naturalized Canadian 1909, d Vancouver, 7 Apr 1994; honorary LLD (Dalhousie) 1978, honorary LLD (Simon Fraser) 1979, honorary LLD (British Columbia) 1980. The elder brother of Murray and John Adaskin , he was an infant when his parents emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto.

Caroline Brownstone is President and CEO of International Management and Marketing Associates (IMMA Ltd.), headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Lionel L.Fitzgerald (1890 - 1956) Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Fitzgerald worked in an engravers plant and attended art school at night until he reached the age of twenty-two. In 1912 he made his living decorating windows and painting landscapes and had his first exhibit with the Royal Canadian Academy in 1913. In 1921, he received his first exhibit at the Art Gallery of Winnipeg after a short study period at the Art Students League in New York.

Samuel M. Hoskinson Samuel Hoskinson is an Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Jefferson Waterman International. He directs international political advocacy and commercial market penetration programs, drawing upon decades of experience in both public and private sectors and his network of high-level contacts in the international community.

David Silcox has had a distinguished and varied career as a writer, educator, cultural administrator and arts advocate. Currently the president of Sotheby’s Canada, Silcox first emerged on the Canadian art scene at Hart House at the University of Toronto; in 1961, he helped organize the massive Canadian Conference of the Arts at Toronto’s O’Keefe Centre; he also organized the first Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.

Aleen Aked [1907-2003] was born in Kildwick, Yorkshire, England and moved to Canada at age three. At fourteen she won an Arthur Lismer Junior Course Scholarship at the Ontario College of Art and later a fulltime scholarship. She studied under the Group of Seven members Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, F.W. Varley, and A.Y. Jackson.

Clinton has denied knowing anything about the Lippo payment to Hubbell. Earlier this month, Davis, the special White House counsel, said Clinton "never asked or suggested that anyone hire Webb Hubbell." But he added that Clinton thinks that "at some point he may have heard Bernard Rapoport (Waco, TX) or Truman Arnold (Texarkana, AR), or both, who are old friends of the president . . . hired or intended to hire Mr. Hubbell."

Mr Braley: That might happen; it might get loaned someplace else. I can't make those judgments in advance of actually dealing with a particular piece of art or what have you. I don't think I'm personally qualified to make those decisions.