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

In 1906 my brother George gave up being a businessman and went to NY City to become an artist.

What happened to the pipe?

Lawren Harris taught me the power and vitality from the German Expressionists

1916 Winter in Canoe Lake Trainor Cottage

Being right isn't all there is to life.

The most bland are downright offended by the use of bright colour.

An good artist ventures into the familiar and returns with the unfamiliar

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

1916 Spruce and Tamarack #tt1916

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

I attended the theathre wherever I could.

Lismer went up with me to Canoe Lake in the Spring of 1914. It was a thrilling revelation for him.

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