My life has been a succession of flase starts and premature endings.

Two years is quite a slice out of ones life when almost 40!

My specialty was baked fish, baked beans and curly, crispy bacon.

1915 Autumn Colour #tt1915 ?1

Jackson said that the Park was full of decoratif motifs. I said it was full of trees

Painting is an act of intimacy without repercussions.

I learned from Jackson how to paint up canvas from sketches.

Jackson gladly shared with me the finer points of rendering the North of canvas.

1916 Autumn #tt1916

Ralph Bice never liked me. That was ok. I did not like him either.

Tom Thomson's Last Spring | Follow me during the days of my last spring in 1917 ttlastspring.com

The Studio Building was Dr. MacCallum's idea. Harris was a partner and Eden Smith was the architect.

I can see Hesperus, and tomorrow I will see Phosphorous. But I can't yet see the Northern Star.

I hear a train whistle. It jolts me out of my thoughts and I look back out towards the shore. The sun has gone down.

The critics were frightened of my grasp of colour.

My journal entry for June 21st, 1917 https://wp.me/p2YBXq-1ga

I watch the sun go down. The evening star is out. Venus is Hesperus. This morning, Venus was Phosphorous

I returned in 1905 to Toronto and began life as a letterman in a commercial art firm.

1912 Northern Lake #tt1912

It's always a mistake to pursue a theory too far.

I am cordial, untamed, moody, exuberant - all at the same time.

An artist has to paint as he sees the scene if it is going to be natural and to last

All the pretty girls are at Cache Lake.

Martin Blecher is out front cleaning his rifle. Looks like he is going to hunt deer by shooting from his putt-putt boat.

Shannon Fraser's conception of a religious ceremony involves the raising of a rectified spirit @mowatlodge

1912 Northern Lake

Who Killed #TomThomson ? ?1

I play the mandolin, sing and love music.

Shannon Fraser is not the kind of man you want to keep in close company.

Supper at Mowat Lodge. Seems like Shannon Fraser had a few too many in the the horse barn again

In 1911 I had my first solo exhibition at the Arts and Letters Club.

Art was once subordinated by religion. Now it's being subordinated by nationalism.

The longer I look at a scene the more it reveals

Throw off tradition. Bring art closer in relation to life and nature.

My father was not a particularly hard worker but he expected us to be.

1916 Dappled Thicket #tt1916

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

The girls go to Annie Colson for advice on what to say to me to get my attention. I made a deal with Annie - Izaak Walton quotes.

I've discovered that sketches make for a brilliantly-coloured campfire

Every one that professes to be an angler has not leisure to search after,- Izaak Walton