Alfred Joseph Casson is always referred to as A.J.Casson.
He was a Canadian artist born in Toronto to an English father and Canadian mother.
In 1919 Casson was offered a job with a commercial art firm in Toronto.
There he was trained by Franklin Carmichael, a member of the famous Canadian Group of Seven artists.
Carmichael encouraged Casson to paint in his spare time, discovering his own very distinctive style.
Casson created some of the most well known Canadian landscape paintings of the 20th century.
Casson, Carmichael and FH Brigden formed the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor in 1925.
The following year Casson was asked to join the Group of Seven, and following its dissolution, Casson founded the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933.
A.J. Casson’s most famous painting is White Pine 1957.
Now recognised as being painted on the Whitefish River First Nation, Highway 6, near Dreamer's Rock.
The site is a vast rocky outcrop which has a significant history as one of the most sacred locations in North America.
View our online art catalogue of A.J. Casson artworks and other oil reproduction paintings by famous Group of Seven artists.