Tom Thomson

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2024-09-30 21:10:17

1916 A View from a Height #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/nwJG.jpg

2024-09-28 17:25:45

Mysterious Fates of Tom: Poacher? #ttfate6 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf

2024-09-26 13:09:03

1917 Early Spring, Algonquin Park #tt1917 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj3IdNhIEAA7Xwq.jpg

2024-09-24 05:10:30

Nothing in the natural world is meaningless.

2024-09-24 04:10:27

I was more than once drunk in the Studio Building.

2024-09-20 12:00:39

Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/BCUX0

2024-09-20 11:40:35

Learn the mystery of my fate. ttlastspring.com #ttfate7

2024-09-20 10:09:07

A girl once said of me 'I would have married him in a second, but he wasn't the marrying kind'. She was right.

2024-09-20 09:55:55

1916 Canoe Lake, Islands #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/4sPOF.jpg

2024-09-20 08:09:02

A critic's favourite target is an artist who depends on art as his livelihood.

2024-09-20 07:09:00

My father wanted to get his money's worth from me. I had to stay on the farm until I was twenty-one.

2024-09-20 06:08:57

If what we do is not creative, it will destroy us.

2024-09-20 05:55:52

1913 Snow in the Woods @NatGalleryCan #tt1913 http://i.imgur.com/qJ6ykf1.jpg

2024-09-20 04:08:51

I don't talk much. I would rather sit on the floor, back against the wall, playing my mandolin.

2024-09-20 03:08:49

I resented Dr MacCallum saying that Jackson had too m

2024-09-20 02:08:46

The land that raises you will always be a part of you.

2024-09-18 17:07:19

The pines that were considered unpaintable were beautiful to me.

2024-09-18 16:07:17

I am interested in the technical side of painting rather than the theoretical.

2024-09-16 00:04:25

If he be an honest Angler, may the east-wind never blow when he is fishing I. Walton

2024-09-15 09:54:29

1913 Lake in Algonquin Park @NatGalleryCan #tt1913 http://i.imgur.com/smx7M1o.jpg

2024-09-15 08:03:44

My aim was not be unique but to express truth and beauty as I saw it.

2024-09-14 18:03:08

In May 1915, after the sinking of the Lusitania, electric signs advertising German beer in Toronto were removed.

2024-09-14 09:02:45

I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.

2024-09-14 08:02:43

There is no evidence I ever went out to western Canada but that does not rule out the possibility.

2024-09-14 01:54:05

1915 Late Autumn #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/aQlJ2.jpg

2024-09-12 19:30:49

1916 Grey Sky #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/78fgG.jpg

2024-09-12 05:00:25

I had a keen sense of design - for advertisements

2024-09-11 15:59:52

Roll up your blanket, go into the bush, and when you return, wreak your soul on a canvas.

2024-09-11 13:53:22

1917 Northern Lights #upclose 2 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/hfQZJl9.png

2024-09-09 10:57:36

Someone once observed that I like art better than women.

2024-09-09 08:57:31

There are advantages to remaining free, especially as an artist with little to no earnings.

2024-09-09 06:57:26

I am cordial, untamed, moody, exuberant - all at the same time.

2024-09-07 21:52:18

1915 Winter Morning #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oYPq.jpg

2024-09-06 01:00:20

Portrait caricature of artist Tom Thomson Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1983-41-30 https://i.imgur.com/UeEMBra.png

2024-09-05 19:53:50

Jim MacDonald introduced me to Thoreau and Emerson

2024-09-05 02:53:06

Harris was one of the few artists close to me.

2024-09-05 00:53:01

It wasn't my understanding of art that made me, it was my understanding of the subject - the North

2024-09-04 22:52:56

In the summer of 1915 the Lismers moved in with the MacDonalds to farm for cash crops.

2024-09-04 04:52:11

Painting by moonlight, in frigid cold, or during storms have their challenges. You need to adapt your technique in these cases.

2024-09-04 03:15:01

1917 #AlgonquinPark brochure cover pg. 12 http://i.imgur.com/qDvgBeR.png

2024-09-04 03:00:53

1917 #AlgonquinPark brochure cover pg. 9 http://i.imgur.com/9aRitU2.png

2024-09-04 01:51:10

1916 Trees and Stump above shore http://i.imgur.com/GkU04lC.jpg

2024-09-03 23:51:57

I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.

2024-09-03 21:51:52

I like decorative form - decorative panels are another matter

2024-09-03 21:51:07

1917 Early Spring #upclose 1 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/iHlsESD.png

2024-09-03 20:51:49

Nature is not poor, she gives me joy.

2024-09-03 19:51:47

Square dances are a good way of getting to know women while keeping your options open.

2024-09-03 18:51:44

I never married.

2024-09-03 17:51:04

1915 Pine Trees at Sunset #tt1915 http://i.imgur.com/Y2eAiu4.png

2024-09-03 17:05:28

1916-17 Golden Autumn #ttcanvas https://i.imgur.com/Fj5rwGm.jpg

2024-09-03 16:51:39

Swamps, beaver dams and logging chutes: the subjects are endless.

2024-09-03 13:51:01

1914 Rock MacCallum's Channel #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/NnLa7OA.png

2024-09-02 03:14:34

1916 Sun in the Bush http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1916 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhuweRXIUAAG7gN.jpg

2024-09-01 08:30:28

Was it death at the hands of Hugh Trainor? #ttfate4 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBeA7tAU0AE9Dqf.jpg

2024-08-31 15:25:46

Of the creatures that alter the landscape in the North, beavers run a far second to our fellow man.

2024-08-31 08:25:28

If you admire my work, I'd likely give it to you.

2024-08-31 02:25:13

I painted the elements in their true nature but subtracted the elements that did not matter to me

2024-08-30 15:00:04

1916 Autumn Birches #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQiQc.jpg

2024-08-30 14:00:55

1916 Autumn #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQjkM.jpg

2024-08-30 01:24:06

Is my duty to be in the trenches, killing or being killed in the name of love of country?

2024-08-29 23:24:01

Lift it up, bring it out.

2024-08-29 23:00:08

1916 Autumn Foliage #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794zK.jpg

2024-08-29 22:30:03

1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQizh.jpg

2024-08-29 22:23:59

I started working at Grip in 1908. That's where I met Jim MacDonald.

2024-08-29 22:00:55

1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVOA.jpg

2024-08-26 09:20:12

My hair falls in a shock over my forehead

2024-08-26 08:20:10

Painting beside Jackson in the Winter of 1914 was exhiliariating for me.

2024-08-26 07:20:07

Fred Varley was convinced I had psychic powers.

2024-08-26 05:20:02

The only way to be economical is to keep going with what you have.

2024-08-26 04:20:00

The best acquaintances are made over camp fires and pipes

2024-08-26 02:25:36

1917 Ragged Lake #tt1917 http://tomthomsonart.com//sites//default//files//works//NGC_.4712.jpg

2024-08-26 02:20:34

Tom Thomson on Lake Scugog c. 1913 http://tomthomsonart.com/sites/default/files/slideshowImages/DogAndDuck.png

2024-08-26 02:19:54

My father was not a particularly hard worker but he expected us to be.

2024-08-26 02:15:30

Tom Thomson c. 1898 http://tomthomsonart.com/sites/default/files/slideshowImages/TomPhoto1_0.png

2024-08-25 23:19:47

Lismer once remarked, 'Toronto is a good place - to get out of!'

2024-08-23 09:17:07

Lismer was fascinated with me when we first met. Artist genius, untutored painter of great ability and integrity.

2024-08-23 08:17:05

I have a contempt for subterfuge, sham and snobbery.

2024-08-23 07:11:47

1910 Hotel on a Hill http://i.imgur.com/wMgLjzd.png

2024-08-23 03:16:52

I don't talk much. I would rather sit on the floor, back against the wall, playing my mandolin.

2024-08-23 03:11:44

1915 Autumn Foliage #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bPgPF.jpg

2024-08-23 02:16:50

Nothing focuses the mind better than a portage through the woods followed by a bear.

2024-08-23 01:16:47

If you try to paint every twig the sketch becomes tight and photographic - uninteresting.

2024-08-23 00:16:45

A moment is a hard thing to capture.

2024-08-22 23:11:41

1915 Sunset #tt1915 #upclose 4 of 4 https://i.imgur.com/q9M0Z96.png

2024-08-22 21:16:37

In 1915 I had to adapt to Toronto - I would go out when only necessary during daytime and exercise by walking at night.

2024-08-21 21:15:37

It was in May of 1912 when I first camped in Algonquin.

2024-08-21 20:15:34

By 1910 I was making regular sketching trips with my friends to Lake Scugog, Weston, Lambton and York Mills.

2024-08-21 19:15:32

I had earnestness, instinct for design, feeling for colour and knowledge of the North.

2024-08-21 19:11:19

1916-17 The Fisherman @youraga #ttcanvas http://i.imgur.com/tw66MjI.png

2024-08-21 18:15:29

I used my money as it came to me. I would buy mitts and boots for children off the street.

2024-08-21 17:15:27

I was a diligent and talented designer but it was my colleagues who convinced me to become a serious painter.

2024-08-21 15:11:16

1917 Winter Thaw #upclose No. 1 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/dFR0YT4.png

2024-08-21 09:15:06

I am cordial, untamed, moody, exuberant - all at the same time.

2024-08-21 03:14:51

An admiration of my sketch would prompt me to give it away.

2024-08-21 00:14:44

Lismer said that the first night up North with me in Spring 1914*was a turning point in his life.

2024-08-20 22:14:38

In May of 1916 I reported for work in Achray as a fire ranger in the Park

2024-08-20 16:14:23

I bought my canoe in 1915; it disappeared in 1917.

2024-08-20 14:14:18

In 1905 I worked for a photoengraver in Toronto for eleven dollars a week.

2024-08-20 10:14:08

One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.

2024-08-19 11:10:35

1916 Winter in Canoe Lake Trainor Cottage http://i.imgur.com/ybD6t9U.png