Steve Martin makes surprise visit to London, Ont., museum

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Actor and comedian Steve Martin made an unannounced visit Wednesday to a museum in London, Ont., to viewpaintings byLawren Harris, a founding member of theGroup of Seven.

Museum London officials said Martin was mostinterested in seeing theHarris oil on canvas painting called From the North Shore, Lake Superior, circa1927.

Martin is co-curatingan exhibition of Harris' work called The Idea of the North: Paintings by Lawren S. Harris. On Thursday night at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the comedian will participate in "an evening of conversation" about the exhibit with Adam Gopnik, a staff writer withThe New Yorker.

After Martin'stour of Museum London, excited Londoners snapped photos of Martin feeding Canadageese outside the museum.

The Group of Seven formed in the early 1920s, travellingand painting iconic landscapes of the Canadian wilderness until 1933. Harris' most well-known paintings are landscapes of Canada's cold north.

Check out the CBC's Digital Archives on the Group of Seven.