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Frances Hans Johnson was born in Toronto in June 1888 and died in 1949. In 1920 he joined the "Group of Seven", his nickname - Frank, and then France. Johnson had an extraordinary academic training and practice in Toronto's Central Technical School, then Central Ontario School of Art. In 1908 he went to study in Philadelphia, and later worked in a commercial company in New York, and in 1915 he returned to Toronto. In 1917-1918 he became a Canadian record of how the military, trained in flight school. His paintings reflect not only his knowledge and artistic training, but his ideals, in the spirit of the time. At the exhibition in 1920, his paintings are paintings of the Seven ideology and a slightly different technique. In 1922 - 24 years. He was director of art school in Winnipeg - Winnipeg School of Art, and then worked in the College - Ontario College of Art (1927-29).