Composition: 99.99% silver
Mintage: 7,000

The Painting: Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay (1921)

While during hisearly Toronto years Varley was principally a figure painter, he painted one of his most iconic landscapes in 1921. At the cottage of Tom Thomson's patron, Dr. James MacCallum, at Go Home Bay Varley painted theoil sketch for this canvas. The next spting he exhibited Stormy Wheather, Georgian Bay at the second exhibition of the Group of Seven. The painting's plunging vantage point gives way to the contradictory upward momentum of tree and sky, and the vast force of the white-capped bay below, creating a powerful sense of relentless movement that sweeps the viewer's perspective from the vast stormy sky to the lone tree in the foreground.

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This coin is the seventh issue of the Group of Seven collection.
The first coin of the series, released in 2012, depicts Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay by F.H. Varley.
The second coin of the series, released in 2012, depicts Nova Scotia Fishing Village by Arthur Lismer.
The third coin of the series, released in 2012, depicts Cobalt by Franklin Carmichael.
The fourth coin of the series, released in 2013, depicts Toronto Street, Winter Morning by Lawrence S. Harris.
The fifth coin of the series, released in 2013, depicts The Gardian of the Gorge by Franz Johnston.
The sixth coin of the series, released in 2013, depicts Sumacs by J.E.H. MacDonald.
The seventh coin of the series, released in 2013, depicts Saint-Tite-des-Caps by A

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