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VARLEY, Frederick Horsman (Canadian, 1881-1969) Coffee House Corner-Whitby. ca.1920. Watercolor on wove paper. Sheet: 6 ¾ x 11 ¾ ”. Frame: 10 ¾ x 16 ¾”. Signed and titled lower right. Varley saw art as a spiritual vocation. His interest in the figure as well as landscape set him apart from other members of the Group of Seven, of which he was a founding member (1920). One of Varley's most famous works is Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay (1921), painted after a summer at Georgian Bay. In 1926 he moved to Vancouver to teach at the recently established Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts, and for the first time landscape painting, in oil and watercolor, became his principal interest. His attraction to Asian philosophies and Chinese painting and color symbolism characterizes his paintings from this period. The locale of this painting is Whitby, a seaside town in North Yorkshire, England. This scene at the harbor was and still is a popular visual for artists and photographers. Light surface dirt. Paper toned. Adhered to board. Good condition.