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Francis Hans Johnston, known as Franz or Frank, apprenticed as a jewelry designer with Ryrie Bros.

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The Group of Seven
Franklin Carmichael
Lawren S.

Harris
Alexander Young Jackson
Frank H. Johnston
Arthur Lismer
J.E.H. MacDonald
Frederick H. Varley

Canadian Landscape Artist

Biography by Brandi Leigh - 2008.

Frank Johnston was born June 19th, 1888 in Toronto Ontario.

As a young man out of high school he began to work as a commercial artist at Grip Limited.

He worked as commercial artist in Toronto and New York from to Johnston's relationship with the artists of the Group of Seven dated back to

He started working with both MacDonald and Thomson, and later Lismer and Carmichael also signed on. It was here that he met the founding fathers of the Group of Seven.

Johnston also was a member of the Arts Letters Club, a group of a hundred men who would meet regularly to discuss conversation and art.

The purpose of this group was to create a place where people with different interests could meet and discuss their own artistic creativity in many different arts: Literature, Architecture, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Pho