Beginning in 1912, landscape artists Tom Thomson, along with future Group of Seven members Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Arthur Lismer,Frederick Varley and A.J. Casson, began for the first time to paint theCanadian Wilderness along the Oxtongue Waterway in Algonquin Park in Ontario, Canada.

Over the course of three years, Jean and Bob Hilscher canoed andfilmed many of the actual locations where these artists once sketched andpainted.

Joan Murray, Canada’s leading art scholar when it comes toTom Thomson and the Group of Seven, brings history alive as she relates thechallenges that Thomson and the other artists faced out in the bush.

As we soon learn in “Painting The Wilderness of theOxtongue”, the hardships and wilderness where these artists once hiked, canoed,fished, froze and got soaked to the hide in is still out there.