A Grand Eye for Glory: A Life of Franz Johnston

Winner of the 1999 International Gallery of Superb Printing Gold Award for Superb Craftsmanship in Production

Franz Johnston is the missing man of Canadian painting. The most prolific and financially successful of the original Group of Seven, Johnston’s paintings were among the most sought after in Canada in the years between the mid-1920s and his death in 1949. They appear in the collections of dozens of discriminating private collectors, and in institutions such as the National Gallery,...