Canadian1877–1917
Tom Thomson
A Canadian painter who spent years as a commercial designer in Toronto before turning to landscape in his thirties. From 1912 he spent most of each year in Algonquin Park, Ontario, painting small oil sketches outdoors and larger canvases over the winter. He drowned on Canoe Lake in 1917, three years before his friends founded the Group of Seven.
A life in paintings
- 1877Born
- 1916
- 1917Died
Circles
Group · Toronto · 1920
Group of Seven
Canadian landscape painters, first exhibited as a group at the Art Gallery of Toronto in 1920. Tom Thomson died before it formed but is counted as an associated artist and a major influence on it.
Source: Wikipedia
Where to see them
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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