Tom Thomson

by Larsen, Wayne

• ISBN13: 9781554887729
• ISBN10: 1554887720
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd

Summary

Tom Thomson (1877-1917) occupies a prominent position in Canada's national culture and has become a celebrated icon for his magnificent landscapes as well as for his brief life and mysterious death. The shy, enigmatic artist and woodsman's innovative painting style produced such seminal Canadian images as The Jack Pineand The West Wind, while his untimely drowning nearly a century ago is still a popular subject of fierce debate. Originally a commercial artist, Thomson fell in love with the forests and lakes of Ontario's Algonquin Park and devoted himself to rendering the north country's changing seasons in a series of colourful sketches and canvases. Dividing his time between his beloved wilderness and a shack behind the Studio Building near downtown Toronto, Thomson was a major inspiration to his painter friends who, not long after his death, went on to change the course of Canadian art as the influential - and equally controversial - Group of Seven.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
An Excavation at Canoe Lake	p. 17
From Forests to Fields	p. 25
A Young Man About Town	p. 41
Shooting the Rapids	p. 55
Storm Clouds on the Horizon	p. 73
Bursts of Light and Colour	p. 87
In the Northland	p. 99
The Pageant of the North	p. 113
An Overturned Canoe	p. 129
Establishing the Icon	p. 147
Chronology of Tom Thomson (1877-1917)	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 183
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