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Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917

Looking good, save for the hair. PM @bobbyborden

It is better to be true to yourself than be a groomed puppet of insincerity and falsehood

Five days before I go up North. Follow the Journal of My Last Spring of 1917. ttlastspring.com

As artists, we were all influenced by the Art Nouveau movement: lines, loops and whorls.

Insulters of Death' is an extraordinarily bad title for a war poem. I'm sure the verse is even worse.

The tragedies of war can produce travesties of verse.

U.S. Steamship Illinois sunk with bombs by German sub in English Channel, 20 miles north of Alderney, no casualties.

There's nothing better than dragging along another painter with you in the wilderness.

Bill Beatty finished reading the March 1917 issue and gave it to me. Some good articles to read.

An envelope on my desk.

1916 Early Spring on Little Cauchon Lake http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1916

March 18, 1917 Toronto World - when there's real news, dispense with the photographs.

Gilmour Company closed its operation on Canoe Lake in 1900

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

Jackson said it wasn't about Canadian art, it was ending our dependence on stale European tradtions

While in school in Chatham, I spent most of my money on movies and dances

1908 George M. Thomson

Wind from the east, fish bite the least

In 1914 the Hot Mush School of Painting got publicity but at the expense of Jackson.

I am six foot two in height, well-proportioned and physically fit. That's why the women like me.