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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

I tell the OS Sun reporter See how brilliant that is. If it were transferred to canvas

I have a surprise visitor: A reporter from the Owen Sound Sun. He wants to do a story on my paintings.

Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Delauney - I heard about them from Jackson

1914 Spring #tt1914

I found the social atmosphere at Go Home Bay too much. I liked being alone

1913 Clouds and Sky #tt1913

Harris said that landscapes, especially winter landscapes, were supposed to be fanciful and surreal.

March 20, 1917 Toronto World

Holiday calendar of 1917 Farmer's Almanac. Spring begins 11:38pm tonight

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

Whenever I got robbed it was for good reason. The robber needed the money more than me.

I embrace solitude

1916 White Birches Round Lake #tt1914

Fred Varley persuaded me to submit my work to the OSA Exhibition

When I first arrived in Algonquin Park in 1913 it was a quiet place. Few lumbermen, fewer tourists.

Want to know what it felt like to live and die in 1916-17 Then follow me. ttlastspring.com

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

1915 Autumn Woods, Algonquin Park #tt1915

In 1902 I took a job in Seattle as a photoengraver.

Photographing live game is one of the greatest sports of the North - @mowatlodge brochure.