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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 resented Dr MacCallum saying that Jackson had too m

I find power in my sketches - small but meaningful.

In the summer the greens are too intense and undifferentiated to interest me.

Good art is understood with the mind's eye

1915 Late Autumn #tt1915

The O.S.A. Spring Exhibition was a public disaster for us, - you should be fighting in the trenches, was the comment

MacDonald was never as inspired with Algonquin Park as Jackson and me.

This may be a good read.

Genuine oil painting from Eaton's

Follow the mystery Who Killed #TomThomson

Who Killed #TomThomson. Solve the mystery

A man does not go through hell and come out an incurable optimist

My journal entry for June 26th, 1917 https://wp.me/p2YBXq-1gk

Lift it up, bring it out.

1905 Footpath of Peace

Only canoe standing up when a tree is nearby #NationalCanoeDay v

I play the mandolin, sing and love music.

Chestnut Catalogue showing my canoe #NationalCanoeDay

I go to church but have no formal religion.

Trout fishing is at its best when the weather is bad.

I liked to get my birch panels from a veneer mill in South River. I ordered them by the hundred-lot.

A picture of me fly fishing in 1916

Authenticity is dirty, gritty, uncomfortable but the result is exhiliarating.

Painted Basswood Canoe, Peterboro Model

Ouija Board Rule 4: Never ever mention 'God'.

Ouija Board Rule 3: Always place a silver object upon the Ouija board

Ouija Board Rule 1: Never play the Ouija board alone.

Lowrie has the Ouija board. He shows me the rules.

Clouds of Canoe Lake

During the winter in Toronto, I tramped the length of Rosedale Ravine with my snowshoes.

Americans think we are like the British. The British think we are like Americans

15 days until I meet my fate. Read my daily journal entries. Follow me live. ttlastspring.com

A picture of me shaving

It's hard to be a radical when you have a family to support. Better to be single and alone.

The smell of balsam fir is much preferable to coal smoke and raw sewage

1916 Decorative Landscape Birches

Once again the weather turned for the worse. I wake up to rain in the morning.