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Tom Thomson (1877–1917) was a Canadian painter from the beginning of the 20th century. Beginning from humble roots, his development as a career painter was meteoric, only pursuing it seriously in the final years of his life. He became one of the foremost figures in Canadian art, leaving behind around 400 small oil sketches and around fifty larger works on canvas.

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  • Tom Thomson (1877–1917) was a Canadian painter from the beginning of the 20th century. Beginning from humble roots, his development as a career painter was meteoric, only pursuing it seriously in the final years of his life. He became one of the foremost figures in Canadian art, leaving behind around 400 small oil sketches and around fifty larger works on canvas. Beginning his career in 1902 as a graphic designer, he only began to paint seriously in 1912 at the age of 35. His skills developed as he ventured through Algonquin Park, sketching scenes that interested him. His creative peak came from 1914 until his untimely death in 1917. His art style progressed from sombre, grey scenes into brilliantly coloured exposés, characterized by rapid and thickly applied brushstrokes. His later works presage the advances seen by the Abstract Expressionist movement. (en)
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  • In the Northland, Winter 1915–16. 101.7 × 114.5 cm . Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (en)
  • Blue Lake: Sketch for "In the Northland", Fall 1915. 21.7 × 26.9 cm . National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (en)
  • Charles Dana Gibson, Gibson Girl, . (en)
  • Tom Thomson, Study of a Woman's Head, . Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (en)
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  • David Silcox has pointed to In the Northland as a striking example of the sketch to canvas transition. The canvas follows the original sketch closely. (en)
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  • Gibson Girl by Charles Dana Gibson.jpg (en)
  • Tom Thomson In the Northland.jpg (en)
  • Tom Thomson Study of a Woman's Head, Seattle.jpg (en)
  • Tom Thomson Blue Lake Sketch for In the Northland.jpg (en)
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  • At the time of his death a perturbed Thomson was poised at the crevasse between figurative and non-figurative art. Whether he would have survived the jump is a matter of conjecture; that he would have jumped is, to me at least, a certainty. (en)
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  • —Harold Town (en)
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  • Tom Thomson (1877–1917) was a Canadian painter from the beginning of the 20th century. Beginning from humble roots, his development as a career painter was meteoric, only pursuing it seriously in the final years of his life. He became one of the foremost figures in Canadian art, leaving behind around 400 small oil sketches and around fifty larger works on canvas. (en)
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  • Artistic development of Tom Thomson (en)
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