Thoreau MacDonald, 1901 – 1989
Canadian artist Thoreau MacDonald was the only son of Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald and was born near Toronto, where he was to spend most of his life.
In ‘Wild Geese’, Thoreau holds the viewer aloft in the expansive sky with the birds, the farmstead visible on the distant horizon, the beak of one goose open as if honking to announce to those in the fields below that winter is coming.