London.- The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Bicentenary year of momentous exhibition firsts is to continue in October with “Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven”, on view from October 19th through January 8th 2012. This is the first exhibition in the UK devoted to Canada’s iconic paintings since the 1920s and forms part of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s North American series showcasing the work of artists rarely seen in the UK. “Painting Canada” will feature some of Canada’s most iconic landscape paintings. These bold and exciting works were first celebrated not in Canada, but in London, at the British Empire exhibitions at Wembley in 1924 and 1925. Since then, despite becoming greatly revered in Canada, the work of Thomson and the Group of Seven has been virtually unknown on the international stage. This major exhibition will reintroduce them to the British public, with an astonishing 122 paintings on display as well as Tom Thomson’s sketchbox.