Bill Beatty and Arthur Heming, bachelor artists in the Studio Building: We'll never be anchored down by a woman!

Conventional artist wisdom is to place living trees in the background. I like placing dead trees in the foreground.

Great War Update, Mar 19, 1917: French battleship Danton is torpedoed. 296 lost.

I considered my sketches as records of their own, not preparatory works for canvases.

Mar 19, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: ALLIES SWEEP 80 MILE FRONT. TAKE 70 TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

1914 Cat-Tails at Canoe Lake #tt1914 found at @theartemporium

Those who go a-borrowing go a-sorrowing.

Guiding yourself to bed by candlelight makes life feel less complicated.

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

Artists at first need to imitate.Unfortunately, Jackson said, there was nothing worth imitating in Toronto

March 19, 1917 Official end of the ice boat season.

The North is my refuge. It's where I can live the simple life.

Jim MacD's wife wants to move back downtown to be closer to her church. Real reason: to be further away from Jim's vegetable garden.

I can see the conflict in Jim MacD's eyes. His revulsion of the abominations of modern warfare, but he needs to pay the mortgage.

1914 Thunderhead #tt1914

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A painting is finished when it no longer needs the painter. But the painter might not know.

In the fall of 1914, Jackson and I camped below Tea Lake. That is where he made the sketch for Red Maple.

Jackson showed me how to drag wet paint over previously dried paint.

The Canadian nation was born on the battlefield of St. Julien. - 1916 Varsity War Supplement