page_title: Franklin Carmichael
section_title: Industry and the environment
hierarchical_section_title: Franklin Carmichael / Style and works / Industry and the environment
caption_attribution_description: English: Franklin Carmichael, The Nickel Belt, 1928, oil on canvas. 101.8 cm x 122.0 cm
context_page_description: Franklin Carmichael RCA was a Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven. Though he was primarily famous for his use of watercolours, he also used oil paints, charcoal and other media to capture the Ontario landscapes of which he was fond. Besides his work as a painter, he worked as a designer and illustrator, creating promotional brochures, advertisements in newspapers and magazines, and stylizing books. Near the end of his life, Carmichael taught in the Graphic Design and Commercial Art Department at the Ontario College of Art.
  The youngest original member of the Group of Seven, Carmichael often found himself socially on the outside of the group. Despite this, the art he produced was of equal measure in terms of style and approach to the other members' contributions, vividly expressing his spiritual views through his art.
context_section_description: By the 1930s, Carmichael's work explored themes of industry in northern Ontario, particularly the mining regions. These themes are displayed in a 1928 work, The Nickel Belt, which depicts smoke billowing away into the clouds and a barren rocky foreground. The work seeks to juxtapose bare nature with the ugly environmental effects caused by industry.
caption: The Nickel Belt, 1928, Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
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