The Group of seven, a group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s, brought the Canadian landscape to wider appreciation through their paintings. Initially, most of the group members met as employees of a design firm in Toronto. Shortly after that, they often traveled to Georgian Bay and Algonquin Park in Ontario for painting inspiration. Following wwl, the painters traveled through Ontario's Muskoka and Algoma regions, where they sketched the landscape and developed art techniques. In 1920, their first exhibition of Canadian landscape paintings garnered mixed reviews. Eventually, the Group of seven were recognized as pioneers of a new, Canadian school of art. The Group of Seven clearly had a major influence on Canadian art, especially on how it depicted landscapes.