page_title: J. E. H. MacDonald
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: J. E. H. MacDonald / Life / Later years
caption_attribution_description: English: J. E. H. MacDonald, Goat Range Rocky Mountains 1932
context_page_description: James Edward Hervey MacDonald RCA was an English-Canadian artist and one of the founders of the Group of Seven who initiated the first major Canadian national art movement. He was the father of the illustrator Thoreau MacDonald.
context_section_description: From 1928 until his death MacDonald served as the Principal of the Ontario College of Art, and he painted with less frequency and less consistent success.
  Today, MacDonald is viewed with general admiration for his art, with one writer commenting, "no Canadian landscape painter possessed a richer command of colour and pigment than J. E. H. MacDonald ... His brushwork is at once disciplined and vigorous. His best on-the-spot sketches possess an intensity and freshness of execution not dissimilar from Van Gogh." His former home and 4-acre (16,000 m²) garden in Vaughan, Ontario have been restored. Owned by the City of Vaughan, they are open to the public.
  MacDonald suffered a stroke in 1931, and spent the following summer recovering in Barbados. He died in Toronto on 26 November 1932 at the age of 59. He was buried at Prospect Cemetery in Toronto.
caption: Goat Range Rocky Mountains, 1932, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
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