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His painting utilizes broad brush strokes and a liberal application of paint to capture the stark beauty and vibrant colour of the Ontario landscape. By 1902, two more of Thomson's brothers, Ralph and Henry, had moved west to join the family's new school.
After studying at the business school for only around six months, Thomson was hired at Maring & Ladd as a pen artist, draftsman and etcher.
For more regarding the public's perception of Thomson's instruction, refer to Death and legacy of Tom Thomson § An "untainted" artist.
His brush strokes became bold and expressive, and he seemed to be moving inexorably toward abstraction.
Dr. They depict the wilderness as a vast world that seems unsullied by human civilization. His evolution was toward relaxed, brilliant handling of paint.
Thomson's quick move was possibly due to a rejected marriage proposal following his brief summer romance with Alice Elinor Lambert.
Thomson moved to Toronto in the summer of 1905. Having previously learned calligraphy, he specialized in lettering, drawing and painting. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
In the Sugar Bush (Shannon Fraser), Spring 1916.
He then returned to the park, where he remained until the weather drove him back to Toronto at the end of November. It was also at this time that, according to Jackson, Thomson acquired his first sketching equipment.
Tom Thomson
Thomas John "Tom" Thomson
Tom Thomson
Thomas John "Tom" Thomson
- August 5, 1877; Claremont, Ontario, Canada
- July 8, 1917; Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada
- Canadian
- Post-Impressionism,Art Nouveau
- landscape
- painting
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Tom Thomson was the most influential and enduringly popular Canadian artist of the early 20th century.
His share was approximately $2,000. His early pictures—in which the quality of naivete had all the genuineness of the effort of the tyro and was not the counterfeit of it which is so much in evidence in the intensely rejuvenated works of the highly sophisticated—showed the faculty for affectionate and truthful record by a receptive eye and faithful hand; but his work today has reached higher levels of technical accomplishment.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Old Lumber Dam, Algonquin Park, Spring 1912. This marked the first time three Group of Seven members painted together, and the only time they worked with Thomson. Around this time, many artists earned a good livelihood as graphic artists.
Thomson soon switched to the local Engraving Company, where, because of his skills, he was offered higher wages.
In 1906, he enrolled in night school at the Central Ontario School of Art and Industrial Design — the precursor to today’s Ontario College of Art and Design University.
In 1912, Thomson embarked on a fishing trip to Algonquin Park, the first provincial park in Canada. Watercolour, graphite and ink on paper.
By early 1915, given his plan to spend two-thirds of every year away from Toronto, Thomson had decided to move into the shed behind the Studio Building. [...] [W]e were late in getting started, so that instead I had to take him to the South West Wooded Pine—an island of granite about a quarter of a mile in length by 100 yards wide and say 50 feet high." Thomson continued to paint around the islands until he departed, likely because he found MacCallum's cottage too demanding socially, writing to Varley that it was "too much like north Rosedale."
Thomson continued canoeing alone until he met with A.
Y. Jackson at Canoe Lake in mid-September. Thomson's sister suggested that he was a pacifist and that "he hated war and said simply in 1914 that he never would kill anyone but would like to help in a hospital, if accepted." William Colgate wrote that Thomson "brooded much upon" the war and that "he himself did not enlist.