Editing Frederick Banting (section)

=== Painting ===
Banting developed an interest in painting beginning around 1921 while he was in London, Ontario.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Root-Bernstein |first=Robert |date=2006 |title=Frederick Banting, Painter |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20206188 |journal=[[Leonardo (journal)|Leonardo]] |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=154 |doi=10.1162/leon.2006.39.2.154 |jstor=20206188 |issn=0024-094X}}</ref> Some of his first pieces were done on the back of the cardboard in which his shirts were packed by the dry-cleaners.{{Sfn|Bliss|1992|p=51}} He became friends with the [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] artists [[A. Y. Jackson]] and [[Lawren Harris]], fellow members of the [[Arts and Letters Club of Toronto]], sharing their love of the rugged Canadian landscape.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Wilton|first=Peter|date=November 16, 1999|title=Frederick Banting and the Group of Seven|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|volume=161|issue=10|pages=1232|pmc=1230768}}</ref> Writing on Banting, Jackson recalls that "He did not want to make a business of art and would tell [would-be purchasers] to go buy a [[Arthur Lismer|Lismer]] or something else and then he would exchange it for one of his."<ref name=":4" />  An obituary said, "A member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, he was one of Canada's most accomplished amateur painters."{{Sfn|Best|1942}}

In 1927, he made a sketching trip with Jackson to the [[St. Lawrence River]] in [[Quebec]]. Later that year, they travelled to RCMP outposts in the Arctic on the Canadian government supply ship ''[[SS Beothic (1918)|Beothic]]''. The sketches, done both in oils on birch panels and in pen and ink, were named after the places he visited: [[Craig Harbour, Nunavut|Craig Harbour]], Ellesmere Island; [[Pond Inlet]], Baylot Island; Eskimo tents at Etach; others were untitled. A collection of Banting's paintings was acquired by and donated to the Owens Art Gallery at [[Mount Allison University]] in 1928. Jackson and Banting also made painting expeditions to [[Great Slave Lake]], Walsh Lake ([[Northwest Territories]]), [[Georgian Bay]], [[French River (Ontario)|French River]] and the [[Sudbury District]].<ref name="NGC">{{cite encyclopedia|last=MacDonald|first=Colin S.|url=http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp?emu=en.aich:/Proxapp/ws/aich/user/wwwe/Record&upp=0&m=1&w=NATIVE%28%27ARTIST+ph+words+%27%27Frederick+Banting%27%27%27%29&order=native%28%27every+AR%27%29&bio=BANTINGSirFrederickGrant.html|title=Banting, F. G. (Frederick Grant), Sir|encyclopedia=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists|volume=1|publisher=National Gallery of Canada|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524042631/http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp?emu=en.aich%3A%2FProxapp%2Fws%2Faich%2Fuser%2Fwwwe%2FRecord&upp=0&m=1&w=NATIVE%28%27ARTIST+ph+words+%27%27Frederick+Banting%27%27%27%29&order=native%28%27every+AR%27%29&bio=BANTINGSirFrederickGrant.html|archive-date=May 24, 2013}}</ref>

At the time of his death in 1941, Banting was one of Canada's best-known amateur painters.<ref name=":6" /> [[Dennis Reid]], the former director of Collections and Research at the [[Art Gallery of Ontario]], views Banting's works as very much "part of the Jackson story".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fraser|first=Lynn|date=October 5, 2010|title=The determined painter: Sir Frederick Banting|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|volume=182|issue=14|pages=E702–E704|doi=10.1503/cmaj.101232|pmc=2950206}}</ref>