Canadian Geographic - The Group of Seven Special Edition
THE PRAIRIES
Lionel Lemoine Fitzgerald was inspired by wide open skies and golden fields
“The prairie has many aspects, intense light and the feeling of great space are dominating characteristics and are the major problems of the prairie artist,” said prairie painter L.L. Fitzgerald in a 1954 radio interview. Fitzgerald preferred simpler subjects for his impressionist-style paintings that captured his love for his home region.
L.L. Fitzgerald Prairie c. 1921
(previous page)
Fitzgerald’s ties to the Canadian prairie landscapes started at a young age, as he recalled in an interview that “summers spent at my grandmother’s farm in southern Manitoba were wonderful times for roaming through the woods and over the fields and the vivid impressions of those holidays inspired many drawings and paintings of a later date.”
L.L. Fitzgerald Prairie Landscape 1955