Frederick Horsman Varley was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven.
13 Facts About Frederick Varley
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Frederick Varley studied art in Sheffield and attended the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, while he worked on the docks.
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Frederick Varley immigrated to Canada in 1912 on the advice of another Sheffield native, Arthur Lismer, and found work at the Grip Ltd.
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Frederick Varley came to the attention of Lord Beaverbrook, who arranged for him to be commissioned as an official war artist.
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Frederick Varley accompanied Canadian troops in the Hundred Days offensive from Amiens, France to Mons, Belgium.
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Frederick Varley's Some Day the People Will Return, shown at Burlington House in London and at the Canadian War Memorials Exhibition, is a large canvas depicting a war-ravaged cemetery, suggesting that even the dead cannot escape the destruction.
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Frederick Varley was the only original member of the Group of Seven to specialize in portraiture, but he painted landscapes.
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Frederick Varley remained in this position from 1926 until 1933.
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Frederick Varley left British Columbia in 1936 due to his experiences with depression, and two years later joined fellow artist Terry M Shortt, the Royal Ontario Museum ornithologist, on a trip to the Arctic in 1938.
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Frederick Varley died in Toronto in 1969 and was buried alongside other members of the Original Seven at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection grounds in Kleinburg, Ontario.
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Frederick Varley was an associate member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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Frederick Varley lived nearby at the Salem-Eckhardt House from 1952 to 1969.
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Frederick Varley has been designated as an Historic Person in the Directory of Federal Heritage Designations.