Depicting the landscapes, forest and farms of southern Ontario with simplicity that eliminate all the nonessential, the Canadian Group of Seven Painter, Alfred Joseph Casson, is best-known for distilling his landscapes into highly finished and carefully composed designs and providing insight into the pastoral pioneering Canada that has now vanished in the face of a noisier urban world.

Famous for being the youngest member of the Group of Seven, Casson was born on May 17, 1898, in Toronto, Ontario, but he grew up in Guelph.