The Second World War also continued the First World War tradition of documenting the western theatres in landscapes. By the early 1920s, a new group of Canadian painters emerged with the aim to help establish a Canadian identity in art. These seven artists, known as the Group of Seven, traveled around central and northern Ontario to paint landscapes with broad sweeping brushstrokes, which ultimately become their signature style. From 1920 until 1931, their Canadian landscapes were held in eight different exhibitions across the country. It is no surprise then that this preference for landscapes greatly influenced the art of the Second World War Official War Art Program. Landscapes and their destruction were easier to paint and as painters succumbed
