The Canadian nation was born on the battlefield of St. Julien. - 1916 Varsity War Supplement


In a pinch, one part bacon grease and ten parts spruce gum can be used to repair a canoe


Jackson said of Bill Beatty, 'He is so soaked in monochrome that mild things excite him.'


Nothing in the natural world is meaningless.


Being right isn't all there is to life.


A girl once said of me 'I would have married him in a second, but he wasn't the marrying kind'. She was right.


Want to travel back in time? Use the hashtag #TomThomson TT Panel _4.jpg


I picked raspberries on one side of the bush, while a bear was picking on the other.


I started working at Grip in 1908. That's where I met Jim MacDonald.


I can see directly into the landscape and transform it.


1916 Snow in the Woods I #tt1916   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794fv.jpg


Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?


1910 Margaret Thomson, my mother #tt1910 http://i.imgur.com/OlUBfs9.png


Trying to be naive and not intellectual gives you the better product.


1914 Red Leaves  #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/m0DeSNK.png


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


Someone once observed that I like art better than women.


1908 View from the Window of Grip Ltd. 14.9 x 10.2 cm Gouache and watercolour on paper #tt1908 https://i.imgur.com/zIvvIkl.png


Being an artist have given me an independent point of view - not good for the war effort some say.


All the pretty girls are at Cache Lake.


October 1914, Jackson met up with in the Park. That fall, the colours were their finest.


1916 A View from a Height #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/nwJG.jpg


1913 Moonlight #tt1913   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8pQVe.jpg


I began my career as a painter in 1906 by copying others.


1915 Autumn Woods, Algonquin Park #tt1915   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/aQlDQ.jpg


1915 Autumn Foliage #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bPgPF.jpg


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


A girl once said of me 'I would have married him in a second, but he wasn't the marrying kind'. She was right.


Thank you, everyone for following me. This is a labour of love. ttlastspring.com


1913 Lake in Algonquin Park @NatGalleryCan #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/smx7M1o.jpg


I once gave a doctor 4 sketches as payment for treatment. He didn't think much of the sketches and put them in the cellar.


You work with your mind not with your hands


1914 Twisted Maple  #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfTmwhiIAAAR2U8.jpg


It's thunder that scares the hell out of you, but it's the lightning that kills


I hate authority being imposed on me


I have self-doubts , but I am grateful for Dr. MacCallum's unwavering faith in my work.


If you try to paint every twig the sketch becomes tight and photographic - uninteresting.


I never married.


1916 Sun in the Bush http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhuweRXIUAAG7gN.jpg


Follow the Journal of My Last Spring.  http://www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue_images/main_lg/1902.03.jpg


This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter


If you are to remain true as an artist, you need to remain true to the art you first learned as a craftsmen.


1916 Autumn Birches #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQiQc.jpg


1916 Autumn #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQjkM.jpg


Jim MacDonald has been branded the most radical artist in Toronto. Nobody wants to buy his art now.


Near Owen Sound https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tdfd8jfmgtQUTG6llMpjz8mgANK1jLhMKU8t0PUfses=w903-h677-no


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


Sometimes I paint as if my life depended upon it. Sometimes I fail.


The only way to be economical is to keep going with what you have.


Lismer once remarked, 'Toronto is a good place - to get out of!'


My father thought his boys owed him a living and forced us to stay on the farm until 21.


I do not philosphize nor do I analyze myself.


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


An admiration of my sketch would prompt me to give it away.


I can never keep straight who is fighting whom overseas


I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.


I stripped my life down to its bare essential.


Square dances are a good way of getting to know women while keeping your options open.


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


When I first arrived in Algonquin Park in 1913 it was a quiet place. Few lumbermen, fewer tourists.


A man who lives is prepared to die at any time #ttletter


My father did not believe I had the grit to stick things out


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


In 1915 I spent over $500 on paint. Almost enough to buy a new car.


Love art whether you accept it or not.


And thus concludes my tweets as they were in 1916-17. http://i.imgur.com/dZubZu0.png


Matthew 11:25 Blessed are you, Father Lord of heaven and earth; for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom to mere children.


Owen Sound: Local florist picks up daily flower orders by telegraph. J.S Fraser - John Thomson 528 4th Ave. East.


Mark Robinson goes with his son Jack to the boys' camp on Little Joe Lake. 'Let's get back to doing something useful now'


and though this body be destroyed, yet shall I see God;
whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold,
and not as a stranger.


After all that has happened, nobody bothered to observe Orangemen's Day today.


I had something that nobody else could acquire - the north in my blood.


I was impressed by Jackson's 'Edge of the Maple Wood' at the 1912 OSA Exhibition.


Tom Thomson

Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr.  Tweeting in real-time from 1917

Historical Account


Four days before a body is found. #WhoKilledTomThomson http://i.imgur.com/P7cZCfd.png


I do not philosphize nor do I analyze myself.


Shortly, I shall pass out on this verandah.


The wind and lightning are in full show. Shaping up to be a bad evening overall.


In a large gathering I have nothing to say, but in the company of friends I am a different man


3 days until I meet my fate. Follow the journal of my last spring  #WhoKilledTomThomson   http://i.imgur.com/JpdywHI.jpg?1


I had a few sharp words with Martin Blecher. Next time I'll throw his pet groundhog down the outhouse hole.


The War has given every woman that hangdog look. There is no longer joy in the eyes of anyone.


July 1, 1917: City of Toronto switches to Daylight Savings Time. Railway schedules stay the same.


8 days until I meet my fate.  Who Killed #TomThomson   http://i.imgur.com/hfr4clK.png


Love art whether you accept it or not.


Only 10 days before I meet my fate on July 8, 1917 #TomThomson http://i.imgur.com/zZoX6lM.png?1


That an artist needs to be depressed and drunk to do his best is utter myth


The weather worsens and it's a downpour. The water is streaming into my tent.


I'm not the superstitious type, but I'm in the same camp as Annie. I don't like these spiritual things, especially the Ouija board.


1916 Rocky Shore  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BovNsWaIcAAV7Uh.jpg


Shannon insists that we take a picture of the catch, all strung on a line, before we clean them for dinner.


The Colsons are holding an Ecumenical Service on Sovereign's Day, June 3rd. Shannon @mowatlodge calls it an 'Economical Service'


Know the price of free advice.


Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?


My blue palette: Cerulean, Cobalt, Prussian, and Ultramarine


1917 Women's Canoe fashion: The Middy Blouse and Pleated Skirt.  http://i.imgur.com/Nj6PFKr.png


If you want to be a critic of mine, be familiar with the trees, rocks, lakes, rivers, have them in your bones


Me: 'I don't think I'll be coming back to Toronto. I told you I am planning about going out West.'


My sketches are truth itself.


Hard canoeing against the wind. Canoeing into the waves so we don't tip.


I picked up the habit of drinking when I was young


May 20, 1917 New moon tonight


A light rain starts. We decide to call it a day and retire to the tents.


Is my duty to be in the trenches, killing or being killed in the name of love of country?


In 1916 I worked with Ed Godin, following the Booth lumber drives down the Ottawa


@WinnieTrainor greets me out front, she invites me inside for coffee with her parents.


There are advantages to remaining free, especially as an artist with little to no earnings.


Harris experiments with broken colour.


Nothing focuses the mind better than a portage through the woods followed by a bear.


Will expect you either Friday or Saturday and will not go over to Highland Inn unless you want specially to start out from there.


1914 Split Rock Gap #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/NFLPnXB.png


There are no barriers between life and art


1910 Logging Camp #tt1910   http://i.imgur.com/6MQoqYs.jpg


You work with your mind not with your hands


I am prey to those old haunting moods - mistrust of myself and my abilities


Better to be wise and silent than a fool who speaks out


I've never painted anything I've not seen in my heart


It's never too early or too late to start anew.


In 1916 Thomas Edison started taking yearly camping trips to escape the modern life he created.


I am going over to Lowrie Dickon's. He's the only one who has whisky in the Park.


I was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin. I had a few Chaplin stunts to dazzle my friends.


One week camping with two men and no fishing requires seven lbs of bacon.


this is a test post


1917 Winter Thaw #upclose No. 1 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/dFR0YT4.png


Follow the Journal of My Last Spring https://ttlastspring.com


Follow the Journal of My Last Spring ttlastspring.com


Hello World


Is my duty to be in the trenches, killing or being killed in the name of love of country?


While I am painting trees in Algonquin Arthur Lismer is painting ships in Halifax. S. S. Olympic in Dazzle.  http://i.imgur.com/OmraQAx.png


I had a love of music, especially the Mendelssohn Choir in Toronto


My mood is not the best today. I feel like a dead tree on the shores of Canoe Lake.


My sketch of Northern Lights  http://i.imgur.com/9Gd27B5.png


Avoid companions that insist on claiming the stern seat in a canoe.


Civilization is a disease, barbarianism is a restoration of health - Julius Meier-Graefe 1908


In 1901 I followed my brothers to Seattle. I stayed four years and learned photo-engraving.


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


1917 @Algonquin_pp brochure cover http://i.imgur.com/GEcb5za.png


Apr 10, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: CANADIANS LEAD IN TRIUMPH. CANADIANS PUT IN FRONT TO CAPTURE VIMY RIDGE http://i.imgur.com/4zsIND3.png


Belted Kingfisher arrives today in @algonquin_pp #migratorybirds  http://i.imgur.com/SiferLa.png


I need to sit down with Shannon to talk about my arrangements here. Money is one of my least favourite topics of discussion.


In my youth I had bouts of illness that kept me home from school.


Guiding yourself to bed by candlelight makes life feel less complicated.


My father did not believe I had the grit to stick things out


All the pretty girls are at Cache Lake.


Better to be wise and silent than a fool who speaks out


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


I chose a good place to sketch on Joe Creek, just below Joe Lake Dam. Once again, it's the birches that dominate the scene.


1916 Sunrise #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/rNks90g.jpg


I stripped my life down to its bare essential.


It's below freezing this morning and judging by the clear sky it should be in the fifties today. Good day to maple sugaring.


I spent many hours standing behind Jackson, puffing my pipe.


Odd name for a kitchen cookstove http://i.imgur.com/f7c4uwa.png


Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?


Looks to be an overcast day today. Slightly above freezing.


My room @mowatlodge sketched on a board http://i.imgur.com/KvTzVXT.png


Mar 24, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: BIG BATTLE DEVELOPS ON WIDE FRONT. ALLIES SMASH FORWARD IN FRANCE WINNING FROM A STUBBORN ENEMY.


The longer I look at a scene the more it reveals


I am tempted to stop in Huntsville to visit @WinnieTrainor but I'll miss my connection at Scotia Junction


Leaving for Algonquin on the Grand Trunk Railway  http://i.imgur.com/kciUYth.png


My rucksack contains my sketchbox and paints, my rolled-up blankets, and my canvas dunnage bag. http://i.imgur.com/k9jMCe1.png


No man is born an Artist, so no man is born an Angler. Izaak Walton


I thought of putting in my application for a Park Rangers job and went down to Headquarters with that idea.


A long canoe trip in Algonquin Park goes a long way to solving all your troubles.


Princess Patricia will be in my billfold from this day onward. http://i.imgur.com/M2Y1F5t.jpg


March 16, 1917 Toronto World - I think the Czar is finished, truly finished http://i.imgur.com/2ykjIhY.png


The world is falling apart. PM @bobbyborden in England meeting with Imperial War Cabinet. Conscription unavoidable.


Paint the scene as you see it. It will never repeat itself


I'm sitting in the back row smoking my pipe. I don't have much to say at these types of meetings.


Look at a subject. Look for the larger idea. Then paint the subject.


The essence of life is creative but our manner of living is not creative.


I have a contempt for subterfuge, sham and snobbery.


England in the Spring! Overseas at Once!' read the most recruiting adverts.


My father thought his boys owed him a living and forced us to stay on the farm until 21.


I sent nothing to the @OSAartists 45th Spring Exhibition. It was my choice. I need to remind myself of that.


The War has given every woman that hangdog look. There is no longer joy in the eyes of anyone.


I embrace solitude


Square dances are a good way of getting to know women while keeping your options open.


I was just told artists should be catching bullets to save the real men.


I stripped my life down to its bare essential.


Trying to be naive and not intellectual gives you the better product.


Nothing focuses the mind better than a portage through the woods followed by a bear.


I picked up the habit of drinking when I was young


Awaiting Germany's next move http://i.imgur.com/ohMVqtq.png


I can never keep straight who is fighting whom overseas


The realism in a photograph brings you only part of the way.


Tweeting from the Shack is hard work. Takes time away from my painting. If you enjoy this stream, please RT. Means a lot to me.


Please follow in my last spring. All tweets are authentic from 1916-17. Please let others know.


Potatoes are expensive, now.


Brushes are scarce.


Anyone who knows the Park will be disappointed when they get to Heaven


Someone described me as an artist with limited funds and a drinking problem.


Jackson was such a talker. I was such a good audience for him


By the end of 1914, I knew where I was going and how to get there as an artist.


According to @mowatlodge Canoe Lake is only 8 hours by train from Toronto. According to Lismer it is a stuffy 9 hours.


When back in the city, I can never get Algonquin Park out of my head.


The mechanized god of war has outraced the right of man to live


I went to war so my son could be a farmer and his son a poet. ~ Thomas Jefferson


I am six foot two in height, well-proportioned and physically fit. That's why the women like me.


Somehow, many think the hallmark of Canadian progress is sending our timber, treasure and men overseas to be blown to smithereens .


A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.


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


We're all having enough of this sad and ghastly war


If I painted city scenes, I would run out of grey.


The sketch I am using was made on the Madawaska, near the Mazinaw. http://i.imgur.com/4m3d3ip.png


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


I don't want to become depressed and mad like Van Gogh, but it's hard to fight.


In the city, one loses connection with the sun and sky


A typical Toronto residence c. 1917, if you weren't in the money.   http://i.imgur.com/JpMmzDw.png


Jackson said he had to wean me away from Varley so I could see new possibilities


I've learned a lot from my painting friends. I've also learned not to bother debating theories of art or answering critic's comments


I wish I could mix a drink like Charlie Chaplin http://i.imgur.com/KThGTpD.gif?1


Park Rule: Song birds and nest and eggs of all birds are protected at all times.


Lying in bed awake. Anxious about returning to Toronto tomorrow. I'll try to avoid everyone as much as I can.


One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.


When I was intensely painting I noticed no one - not even bears.


Artists were accused of the moral degneracy that led to the War.


There is more promise to be an author-figher nowadays than being an artist-woodsman.


No theory can take the place of experience.


Every man alone is sincere.


The front page on Christmas Day, 1916 http://i.imgur.com/Et8voFY.png


In a large gathering I have nothing to say, but in the company of friends I am a different man


At times I am moody, temperamental and deeply discouraged.


1913 Northern Lake, Spring 1913 #tt1913   http://i.imgur.com/AGaOKZl.png


Ever since the raids on London, Zeppelins are popping up everywhere  http://i.imgur.com/fHMkhXN.jpg


Oh, God - this is bad.... #warmeasuresact http://i.imgur.com/3VBNyT2.png


1917 Early Spring, Canoe Lake #upclose 2 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/WyVRofh.png


1917 Winter Thaw #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/VMFpKrr.jpg


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


Varley marvelled at how I could jump in the air and snap on the electric light.


As if war in Europe is not enough, I can't fathom  that people are talking about civil war in Canada.


Swamps, beaver dams and logging chutes: the subjects are endless.


Avoid entering a canoe with anyone who displays evangelical fervour.


A moment is a hard thing to capture.


Surprise your darling with a leopard skin. Only $450 at Simpson's Dept Store. Open until 10pm tonight.   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7X9gf.jpg


Alone in a studio, one learns next to nothing about painting and nothing about life.


Greetings


Hello Nostr


May the season have blessings on you!


Hello Christmas!


I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.


Art lives in its mistakes.


1916 Snow Shadows  #tt1916 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bhb6BuAIUAEeqwO.jpg


1916 Thaw Snow Banks #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797fC.jpg


Someone described me as an artist with limited funds and a drinking problem.


No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen


That an artist needs to be depressed and drunk to do his best is utter myth


Guiding yourself to bed by candlelight makes life feel less complicated.


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


I was impressed by Jackson's 'Edge of the Maple Wood' at the 1912 OSA Exhibition.


I still have the sketch that I painted into the canvas 1915 Moonlight #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3t8soqCcAARvOP.jpg


Every man passes his life in search for friendship.


I had something that nobody else could acquire - the north in my blood.


I was more than an aging farmboy - pulling eggs from chickens I've never seen


MacDonald liked to write poetry, then tear it up.


1916 Islands, Canoe Lake #upclose No 4. #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/pOKYrWG.png


1916 White Birches Round Lake #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6VZMl.jpg


Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?


Man is many things, but he is not rational


Jackson and I were so poor that we could only afford the occasional film at the cinema.


you get your blankets wet and if you spread them out to dry it is sure to rain again.


I can never keep straight who is fighting whom overseas


English art is a generation behind. Canadian art, a century.


My father wanted to get his money's worth from me. I had to stay on the farm until I was twenty-one.


I did my best work when I was not the best of company.


A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.


1908 Aldersyde, the Harkness Farm http://i.imgur.com/ACLKpvX.png


Conventional artist wisdom is to place living trees in the background. I like placing dead trees in the foreground.


Harris was attracted to the occult


The typical Canadian is materialistic and conventional.


Camp Petawawa in 1915 was filled with interned Austrians and Hungarians, bankers and muscians, mostly.


Harris encouraged me to knock out of me preconceived ideas of art. I had none to begin with.


Wilderness is a source of power.


I attended the theathre wherever I could.


Toronto World: Nov 13 1916: FRENCH BOMB GERMANS OUT OF SAILLISEL


Every man passes his life in search for friendship.


Nov 13 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 32F LOW 12F


Don't fight for the composition but drift with mood. The moment of vision will arrive. If it doesn't, so be it.


It wasn't my understanding of art that made me, it was my understanding of the subject - the North


1916 White Birches Round Lake #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6VZMl.jpg


Jackson said he had to wean me away from Varley so I could see new possibilities


I was a diligent and talented designer but it was my colleagues who convinced me to become a serious painter.


The essence of life is creative but our manner of living is not creative.


1912-13 Northern Shore @aeartcentre  #ttcanvas  http://i.imgur.com/Q1ZUHB6.png


I would produce more from uninspired material while my chums were of searching for inspired material.


Mystery is not the same a misunderstanding.


A critic's favourite target is an artist who depends on art as his livelihood.


One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.


1905 Margaret Thomson  http://i.imgur.com/v5Ew3XW.jpg


I am generous to the point of being careless about money.


I am sensitive but given to despondency.


English art is a generation behind. Canadian art, a century.


1915 Birches and Cedar #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bPgKm.jpg


A photo would be great but the painted things are awful.


It was in May of 1912 when I first camped in Algonquin.


The difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts longer - Oscar Wilde.


Always striving to catch a brooding sky above a northern lake.


1916 West Wind #tt1916  http://i.imgur.com/JaTh2DP.png


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


Swamps, beaver dams and logging chutes: the subjects are endless.


I had a keen sense of design - for advertisements


Jackson and myself have been making quite a few sketches lately and I will send a bunch down with Lismer #ttletter


Toronto World: Nov 12 1916: No Edition Today.


In 1914 I was busy 'slopping paint' with Varley and developing into a cubist.


Nov 12 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 30F LOW 18F


The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses ~ GTR brochure


Harris said that landscapes, especially winter landscapes, were supposed to be fanciful and surreal.


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


1916 Sunset Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoUIkPeCcAAD39-.jpg


Disregard for the proper rules of painting was considered a slap in the face by some members of society.


If you admire my work, I'd likely give it to you.


The remedy for overly-civilized men is a camping vacation.


1917 Early Spring #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/iqyi8ES.jpg


In 1915 Arthur Lismer, Jim MacDonald and myself painted decorative murals for Dr MacCallum's cottage


Carmichael and I were opposed to the War but the spectre of enlistment grew more and more.


I picked up the habit of drinking when I was young


Without a pipe of tobacco and a good drink nothing can be done.


1916 Jack Pine Sketch #upclose No. 3 #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/fsChSMC.png


Having a pipe and whisky with Hugh Trainor in the front room while the women clean up.


If it was a rainy day, I would stay in camp, clean my pipes and read the Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton.


Having supper with the Trainors in Huntsville


Lismer taught me lightness of touch, MacDonald vigour of colour, and Jackson, mood and atmosphere.


At the Trainor household.


#TomThomson @TheTomThomson RSCN5617.JPG


Meeting up with @WinnieTrainor. I'll walk her home from the store.


A photo would be great but the painted things are awful.


Look at my art, you should feel that I am still around.


1914 Nocturne #tt1914 found at @AGW401 http://i.imgur.com/D04qm59.png


In the 1912 Exhibition Jackson's painting stood out amongst the collie dogs, peonies, and official portraits.


In a large gathering I have nothing to say, but in the company of friends I am a different man


I once gave a doctor 4 sketches as payment for treatment. He didn't think much of the sketches and put them in the cellar.


I will be staying the night in Huntville


Meeting @WinnieTrainor at the store where she works.


Coming into Huntsville Train Station  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7xDOX.jpg


I would freely give away my sketches if admired


1915-16 Forest Undergrowth II  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794kC.jpg


Be humble, be healthy, be willing to be taught.


Your school chums have all done their bit. Now it's up to you. http://i.imgur.com/fonivjL.png


Bushmen and Sawmill Hands Wanted http://i.imgur.com/xohEMYc.png


Pulling into Scotia Junction. Waiting for a connection


Shall we help to crush the tyranny? http://i.imgur.com/RQ0gqRM.png


To the women of Canada http://i.imgur.com/vrCCa28.png


Passing through Kearney


Human figures were elusive to paint. I tried but eventually took it as a sign.


You are no exception. Join now. http://i.imgur.com/hsLiATa.png


Passing through Ravensworth


Here's Your Chance. It's Men We Want : Recruiting poster http://i.imgur.com/6BAkbRf.png


Passing through Rainy Lake


Harris, a Theosophist, MacDonald, a Transcendentalist, I just liked to paint


Passing through Brule Lake - stopping for water


Catching the Saturday morning training.


A good portrait can be peed into the snow.


1916-17 Evening Early Spring #ttcanvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVGX.jpg


Finishing up breakfast with the Frasers, Shannon will be bringing me up to Canoe Lake Station


Toronto World: Nov 11 1916 : WILSON IS ELECTED


Jackson knew how to draw out my talent rather than hammering in me technique.


Nov 11 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 46F LOW 24F


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


Second-hand ideas about Impressionism mixed in the with brittle air of the North - that's never been done.


If he be an honest Angler, may the east-wind never blow when he is fishing I. Walton


1903 Advertisement for Acme Business College http://i.imgur.com/qCJVlO9.jpg


In the summer of 1915 the Lismers moved in with the MacDonalds to farm for cash crops.


It was at Grip where I had to face the divide between a commercial artist and one of the Northland


At times I would not sketch at all, being quiet and moody for days


When I painted a sketch, I had to get on with it, without worrying about the composition.


1916 The Sumacs #tt1916 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WyEgjatuuQ_5SUlQ-t5Yj6vEaAGnRpCqQZFignIwSbg=w475-h379-no


11pm @Mowat Lodge. Fire is burning low.


Jackson said I never saw a good picture in Toronto


Follow the journal of my last spring ttlastspring.com


On Saturdays, Varley and I hiked the outskirts or took the ferry to Centre Island.


To others, the country was a monotonous dreary waste, but for me it was full of undreamed riches.


My last night @mowatlodge. Taking the morning train tomorrow


When Jackson and I were in the Studio Building we took our meals at a bar on Yonge St. or the Busy Bee Resto.


1916 Winter in Canoe Lake Trainor Cottage   http://i.imgur.com/ybD6t9U.png


Fred Varley was always so enthused by my work.


I picked raspberries on one side of the bush, while a bear was picking on the other.


According to 1916 Saturday Night, MacDonald is the chief offender on throwing paint pots at the Public.


1915-16 After the Sleet Storm @AGOToronto #ttcanvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7h8Qs.jpg


Jackson had the greater initiative and was as indifferent to material ambition as I was


In 1915 Arthur Lismer, Jim MacDonald and myself painted decorative murals for Dr MacCallum's cottage


My father was intense but absent-minded


Conventional artist wisdom is to place living trees in the background. I like placing dead trees in the foreground.


1916 Moonlight #tt1916 Oil on wood 8 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bZDXV.jpg


When I was intensely painting I noticed no one - not even bears.


Frank Johnston understood the meaning I was trying to convey.


A restricted palette does not limit your tones and shades. It makes you work harder and in the end you get the right colour


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


1916 Sunset Canoe Lake #tt1916  - hi res http://i.imgur.com/D4ZuRNv.png


After I finished my fire ranging job in late summer of 1916  I camped for the better part of two months.


Nov 10 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 48F LOW 20F


Don't think you are better because you can praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbour's clumsiness


I am plain and easy-going as an old shoe.


1915 Nocturne, Algonquin Park  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHu163wWEAA1QbE.png


Both Varley and I liked our drink and women


Nov 9, 1916 Full moon tonight.


I would freely give away my sketches if admired


I do not philosphize nor do I analyze myself.


I conducted my life in an unconventional manner, viewed as unseemly by others.


A moment is a hard thing to capture.


No theory can take the place of experience.


I stripped my life down to its bare essential.


I go to church but have no formal religion.


The longer I look at a scene the more it reveals


Lift it up, bring it out.


No scene is ever the same the second time.


Harris experiments with broken colour.


Whatever happened to my good paddle? #ttclue


You work with your mind not with your hands


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Natural Causes? #ttfate8 #ttclue http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


I spent many happy days looking at tree stumps..


I dislike Government patronage.


Nothing in the natural world is meaningless.


An artist always has his own version of place.


Toronto World: Nov 5 1916: No Edition Today.


I love the northern woods.


My father wanted to get his money's worth from me. I had to stay on the farm until I was twenty-one.


I picked up the habit of drinking when I was young


I had a keen sense of design - for advertisements


Torment is part of the artist's job description


Algonquin Park is my country. @Algonquin_PP


I would freely give away my sketches if admired


A moment is a hard thing to capture.


My father was intense but absent-minded


Harris experiments with broken colour.


Nov 2, 1916 First quarter to moon tonight


On Saturdays, Varley and I hiked the outskirts or took the ferry to Centre Island.


1914-15 Pine Island Georgian Bay #ttcanvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794n5.jpg


I stripped my life down to its bare essential.


A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.


A Northern Mill Yard #TomThomson B16thomson31.jpg


The ghost of #TomThomson watches his own funeral @TheTomThomson https://youtu.be/yUu35ypvkrU


Tom was here 1384175583238.jpg


1916 First Snow #tt1916 1916-First-Snow.jpg


#TomThomson in Leith Cemetery DSCN5620.JPG


#TomThomson in front of Leith Church DSCN5643.JPG


#TomThomson wpid-img_20131201_145317.jpg


1914 Canoe  1914TTinCanoebyLismer.JPG


All the big lumbermen are on Grand Lake.


1916 A View from a Height #tt1916 nwJG.jpg


#TomThomson was here 1384175583238.jpg


I often produced something that I never intended.


The art shops liked our generous use of bright colour. It meant we bought more.


Don't mistake the map for the territory.


I go to church but have no formal religion.


No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen


Only dead things remain as they are.


Algonquin Park is my country. @Algonquin_PP


Both Varley and I liked our drink and women


Still up North http://wp.me/p2YBXq-11x


My father was intense but absent-minded


Toronto World: Oct 29 1916: No Edition Today.


I attended the theathre wherever I could.


I play the mandolin, sing and love music.


Nature is not poor, she gives me joy.


Every man alone is sincere.


One can never have too much red in a painting.


Know the price of free advice.


Treat friendships with rough courage.


MacDonald liked to write poetry, then tear it up.


1914 Lowrie Dickson Shack #tt1914 Cn2BZ8F.png


Torment is part of the artist's job description


I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.


Park Advice: Strong food and persistent exercise work wonders.


Gray Day in the North  8pQIN.jpg


1916 A View from a Height #tt1916 nwJG.jpg


1914 Canoe Lake Mowat Lodge SJF4ofO.png


I never interfere with my friends' affairs, but the reverse isn't necessarily true


1914 Approaching Snowstorm #tt1914 XuRmEGu.png


I am sensitive but given to despondency.


I never married.


No theory can take the place of experience.


My sketches are truth itself.


I was keenly interested in the work of Van Gogh


Shall I not be real as the things I see?


Wilderness is a source of power.


Nature is not poor, she gives me joy.


There are no barriers between life and art


I embrace solitude


Toronto World: Oct 22 1916: No Edition Today.


I was a compulsive but sporadic reader - Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler I kept with me always


Prime Minister Borden thought Duke of Connaught to be a dimwit


I hate authority being imposed on me


I like red maples but I like dislike red tape


1905 Sailboat  http://i.imgur.com/0nsK6pt.jpg


Only dead things remain as they are.


Algonquin Park is my country. @Algonquin_PP


I was once called an "Expressionist Brute'


Harris experiments with broken colour.


A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.


An artist always has his own version of place.


Cloudy, rainy weather is full of excitement and mystery


We're all having enough of this sad and ghastly war


This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter


I love the northern woods.


Those who go a-borrowing go a-sorrowing.


Some days I felt like a clumsy imitator overdoing my part.


Both Varley and I liked our drink and women


Harris was attracted to the occult


No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen


I often produced something that I never intended.


Harris was scared of usng bright colours.


Know the price of free advice.


Jim MacDonald is a fan of Van Gogh. Me too.


Art is not there and then but here and now.


It's Thomas Edison Day today.


In 1916 Thomas Edison started taking yearly camping trips to escape the modern life he created.


1908 Lady on the Beach http://i.imgur.com/dCvkX3Y.jpg


Toronto World: Oct 15 1916: No paper today.


I never married.


Lift it up, bring it out.


I had a keen sense of design - for advertisements


I am generous to the point of being careless about money.


I play the mandolin, sing and love music.


Different seasons require different palettes.


I would freely give away my sketches if admired


I kept fearing I would make a fool of myself


I'm reserved, shy, chary of society


The passion for painting is immediate to me.


1903 Endorsement of Special Penmanship http://i.imgur.com/Trd1IEj.png


If it works, it is true.


Jackson showed me how to drag wet paint over previously dried paint.


Storm Clouds, Algonquin Park vfavavam.jpg


One can never have too much red in a painting.


I hate authority being imposed on me


Those who go a-borrowing go a-sorrowing.


Wilderness is a source of power.


An artist strives to find what is good in Nature and tries to communicate that feeling.


Harris was attracted to the occult


I embrace solitude


Harris, a Theosophist, MacDonald, a Transcendentalist, I just liked to paint


Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.


I never truly realized what I had, but others did.


Fred Varley was convinced I had psychic powers.


Letter to Dr. MacCallum http://wp.me/p2YBXq-11u


I like red maples but I like dislike red tape


I spent many happy days looking at tree stumps..


Love art whether you accept it or not.


I had a keen sense of design - for advertisements


If it works, it is true.


Canoes are too small to accommodate clashing personalities


It was in May of 1912 when I first camped in Algonquin.


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


1916 Landscape Sunset  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhPLE2wIAAAlQsp.jpg


I like to prepare my canvases so that they are of the same colour as my boards.


The Studio Building was great for painting large canvases. The Shack - even better.


I'm reserved, shy, chary of society


Toronto World: Oct 7 1916: No Paper Today


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


Oct 07 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 70F LOW 47F


A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.


My sketches are truth itself.


I bought my canoe in 1915; it disappeared in 1917.


1916 Windy Day Canoe Lake #tt1916   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVhY.jpg


Shall I not be real as the things I see?


My sketching style evolved quickly because the North demands quick adaptation to its environment.


Some say my colours are exaggerated, but that was the very colour in the light of the moment.


Painting beside Jackson in the Winter of 1914 was exhiliariating for me.


1911 Rocks and Water http://i.imgur.com/9cGkCgD.png?2


Jackson had the greater initiative and was as indifferent to material ambition as I was


When the fish don't bite that is when I am driven to catch them.


In 1912 I made my first trip to Algonquin Park with my Grip friend Ben Jackson.


One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.


1914 Twisted Maple  #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfTmwhiIAAAR2U8.jpg


As artists, we were all influenced by the Art Nouveau movement: lines, loops and whorls.


I had a keen sense of design - for advertisements


What's actually encoded in the NFC ring? I have some NFC cards that I am experimenting with. Is it LNURL pay with Lnbits?


You can judge a moose by the size of its antlers. Too bad there's no similar rule for judging men.


If you try to paint every twig the sketch becomes tight and photographic - uninteresting.


1914 Woodland Interior  #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bn1c-VICIAAWyWd.jpg


Expression is a spiritual necessity: self-glorification is a lack of something to express.


Jackson said I had the raw faculties for painting, I just needed to coordinate them all.


Unlike my artist friends, I never took any formal training.


My sketching style evolved quickly because the North demands quick adaptation to its environment.


1908 Girl's Head http://i.imgur.com/UGAGwwn.png


In the summer of 1916, Harris was training at Camp Horror, otherwise known as Camp Borden.


@rickmercer restores the West Wind @CBC http://youtu.be/Fe_bFxiCB7w


I was dissatisfied with my own work, but enthused by others. Maybe that's why people liked me.


Toronto World: Oct 6 1916: ALLIES MAKE FURTHER PROGRESS IN BALKANS


I first met Lismer when he started at Grip in 1911. His previous boss accused him of being a thief. He quit.


1916 Islands Canoe Lake http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuipXsNCQAA_bDu.jpg


Oct 06 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 78F LOW 35F


Artists at first need to imitate.Unfortunately, Jackson said, there was nothing worth imitating in Toronto


It is a painter's duty to become absorbed in nature. ~ Vincent Van Gogh


There is nothing to celebrate in the sadness, suffering and desolation of War


I didnt analyze. I worked from my inside feeling and let that govern my work.


1914 The Last Fence #tt1914   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8pRoY.jpg


A lovely landscape cannot appreciated by an unlovely mind.


The art shops liked our generous use of bright colour. It meant we bought more.


I like the people of Algonquin Park. Genuine with rough edges still in view.  Just like my boards.


In 1914 the Hot Mush School of Painting got publicity but at the expense of Jackson.


1905 River Landscape #tt1905  http://i.imgur.com/lvbubeI.png


Fred Varley was always so enthused by my work.


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


On Saturdays, Varley and I hiked the outskirts or took the ferry to Centre Island.


I detest subterfuge and snobbery but I am sensitive to ridicule.


1914 Autumn, Canoe Lake #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/Jd9YHcD.png


The War has corrected harm arising from fatalistic individualism - 1916 Varsity War Supplement.


I am interested in the technical side of painting rather than the theoretical.


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


1902 Self Portrait Day after Tacoma #TomThomson @TheTomThomson https://goo.gl/maps/QuCEF95p5932 http://i.imgur.com/CNraQXA.jpg


I think Daphne Crombie had the eyes for me. Trouble was, she was married and I was not


Wilson's Bachelor "The National Smoke" Delightfully fragrant advert12311.png


Tom Thomson and friends c. 1914 http://goo.gl/5lR7w9


Some artefacts found at the site of old @mowatlodge DSCN6768.JPG


Prime Minister Borden thought Duke of Connaught to be a dimwit


I discussed the War a lot with Ed Godin. I was against it.


Harris once told me once, 'What is worse than the apathy in Montreal is the ignorance in Toronto.


1914 Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/5sINdkh.jpg


MacDonald and I were considered the old horses in the stable of Grip.


Arthur Lismer said he never saw a porcupine, so I introduced him to a family of porcupines.


I would lose interest in painting in the summer. Uninteresting greens gave way to other pursuits. Fishing, women and dancing.


Toronto World: Oct 5 1916: ROUMANIANS ROUT ENEMY IN TRANSYLVANIA


1915 White Birches Round Lake #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgzHosXIcAAdaWK.jpg


I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.


Dr MacCallum rescued Jackson from going down to the United States.


Oct 05 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 77F LOW 45F


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


In May 1915, after the sinking of the Lusitania, electric signs advertising German beer in Toronto were removed.


London was full of excessive drinking, gambling and eager experimentation with morphine and chloroform.


1912 Mississagi #tt1912 http://i.imgur.com/kw7UAlG.png


An artist strives to find what is good in Nature and tries to communicate that feeling.


Lismer said I was a wonder with canoe, axe and fishing line.


Roll up your blanket, go into the bush, and when you return, wreak your soul on a canvas.


Park Rule: Netting game fish or killing them by explosives is expressly forbidden.


1916 Spring #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797ha.jpg


In 1908 I was hired as a lettering assistant at Grip. My job - finishing the detailed work of the more talented artists


Aldersyde Farm north of Annan. RSCN5693.JPG


Near Owen Sound DSCN5651.JPG


Looking at the @WinnieTrainor Cottage DSCN6733.JPG


In 1916 I worked with Ed Godin, following the Booth lumber drives down the Ottawa


Mowat Cemetery at Canoe Lake PANO_20130906_112729.jpg


My palettes 09-DSCN5591.JPG


In 1913 the Government of Ontario purchased my Northern Lake canvas


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


My father thought his boys owed him a living and forced us to stay on the farm until 21.


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


Jackson said he had to wean me away from Varley so I could see new possibilities


I was accused of painting 'diseased trees'


1916 Autumn #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQjkM.jpg


The Studio Building was great for painting large canvases. The Shack - even better.


You work with your mind not with your hands


For the landscape to paint, I was indebted to the lumber companies; dams, log shutes, camp clearings


1915-16 Forest Undergrowth I  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794lU.jpg


Man is many things, but he is not rational


It is a painter's duty to become absorbed in nature. ~ Vincent Van Gogh


I started working at Grip in 1908. That's where I met Jim MacDonald.


Oct 4, 1916 In Basin Depot writing a letter to Dr. MacCallum


Expression is a spiritual necessity: self-glorification is a lack of something to express.


Toronto World: Oct 4 1916: SERBIAN DRIVE IS APPROACHING MONASTIR


1915 Northern Spring #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/793FP.jpg


Oct 04 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 76F LOW 40F


I was more than once drunk in the Studio Building.


When the temperature goes below minus forty the only thing that moves is the smoke from chimneys.


I found the social atmosphere at Go Home Bay too much. I liked being alone


1905 Margaret Thomson  http://i.imgur.com/v5Ew3XW.jpg


Carmichael described my canvas as having a vast expanse of grey and soggy sky.


MacDonald made his first visit to Algonquin in March 1914. Jackson had been there a month.


I was fascinated by Jackson's construction of Terre Sauvage in late 1913


The longer I look at a scene the more it reveals


1916 Moose at Night ~ Oil on wood 20.9 x 26.9 cm National Gallery of Canada #tt1916 https://i.imgur.com/gkroIp2.png


Shannon Fraser has a vacuum where his Conscience might be.


I am not a philosophner, nor a mystic, just an inspired man struggling against heavy odds.


My neighbours never thought of my father as a serious farmer.


I am generous to the point of being careless about money.


1916 Poplars by the Lake #tt1916 https://i.imgur.com/6AQ8Jq7.png


I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.


At times I would not sketch at all, being quiet and moody for days


In 1915 I spent over $500 on paint. Almost enough to buy a new car.


Better to be wise and silent than a fool who speaks out


1915 A Rapid #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi259FuIQAAibyk.jpg


I need to get the feel as well as the look of country.


Art was not to be taught by words. - Izaak Walton


Annie Fraser always thought I had something going for Daphne Crombie


I kept fearing I would make a fool of myself


1914 Winter in Algonquin  #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbyV25wIIAAIjds.jpg


A moment is a hard thing to capture.


I play the mandolin, sing and love music.


Toronto World: Oct 3 1916: ROUMAINIANS BEGIN INVASION OF BULGARIA


I conducted my life in an unconventional manner, viewed as unseemly by others.


1917 Early Spring, Canoe Lake http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1917


Unlike my artist friends, I never took any formal training.


Oct 03 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 72F LOW 38F http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/1242/I0003544_Boyd_boys%20fishing%201916.jpg


Lismer said I was a wonder with canoe, axe and fishing line.


Alone in a studio, one learns next to nothing about painting and nothing about life.


The hardest thing to paint the different shades of grey in the woods.


1916 Moonlight and Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaLWyR3IUAAIbMJ.jpg


Artists at first need to imitate.Unfortunately, Jackson said, there was nothing worth imitating in Toronto


I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.


When Jackson returned to Algonquin Park in the fall of 1914, he said that  had made remarkable progress.


1913 Autumn Evening Burnt Land #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/CjuGq6x.jpg


Park Rule: Licenses should be kept in personal possession at all times.


I am generous to the point of being careless about money.


Harris was attracted to the occult


A good portrait can be peed into the snow.


1915 Hillside ttlastspring.com #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxiKKjsCQAAnlk_.jpg


No man is born an Artist, so no man is born an Angler. Izaak Walton


It was Lismer's readiness to accept and explore new land that made us such good companions.


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


If you admire my work, I'd likely give it to you.


1916 Poplar Point, Rock, Sun #tt1916 https://i.imgur.com/ctaEmdw.jpg


I used my money as it came to me. I would buy mitts and boots for children off the street.


This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter


In 1908 I joined the engraving house, Grip Ltd - it was my graphic arts university.


1916 Red Sumac  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bw8cOknCIAA2HPQ.jpg


In Toronto I took my midday meal at the local lunch counter.


I go to church but have no formal religion.


My grandfather was the most celebrated fisherman in Pickering, my father in Sydenham and me in Algonquin.


1916 Career Opportunity http://i.imgur.com/v4IbTHp.png


In fly-fishing for trout one must observe his twelve several flies. Izaak Walton


Toronto World: Oct 2 1916: ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID IN PROGRESS, ONE MACHINE IS DOWN


1916 Moonlight and Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaLWyR3IUAAIbMJ.jpg


Roll up your blanket, go into the bush, and when you return, wreak your soul on a canvas.


Oct 02 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 67F LOW 36F http://www.wilderness.net/images/arthurcarhart1.jpg


My blue palette: Cerulean, Cobalt, Prussian, and Ultramarine


I found the social atmosphere at Go Home Bay too much. I liked being alone


I would see a thousand things in the wilderness that others missed. I knew where to find subjects.


1916 Petawawa Gorges, Fall #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/SxDoXMe.jpg


I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.


In the summer of 1915 the Lismers moved in with the MacDonalds to farm for cash crops.


I bought my canoe in 1915; it disappeared in 1917.


Brought to you by Grape Nuts - Putting It Over The Line. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fu59kxV2_OJ4izfodouOpkKKp_3dwrDPImoBwErUVZlldNXRszlq0GRt0rS-Wgsrpx6Tt1plVb_1w7mf-ApterCXyk3roSHB6cMkNihNL-y5Ef-RQm3Ow-3JGHLKmqImquT8cNs_gkVx5TaQWzoTgJO-HkmM9tOev-IxnqQKitTtAukz3S8NwtXXEMeTgA9VI1d8WTh4KkoAEDMRILfzgzCJpG7G_1PRq8RWADoBLNe55Xcv2ww4SaZNvCcVXdewmXf4PEmnw_5DUx6ql-FQosb8Ib2QtUfYrqKKwlTRQngffwPs3MQBaAg0cglLm1CLP9ns8wFFUu5F8XD_GN5IUmCJnpd2JPO4qYUzoFEFId1_ILdEUJYbcQqxv5BiZy_Xw1zZbPGFeN-0rYhstX0vbtb9fAjAMiOmZH0JW5dPeWTnNb_Pkx25m85e5aicCrPR7I1QpEn3yFb-lTAh4pkahPL15Y2GsdSPi0y1M20ksC5MCrpMhtIYYzSvvgcs7fEn23FY42xEP732BDFApZY6HbiCSIkvBfW_S45hoAYCuvZR=w394-h475-no


A photo would be great but the painted things are awful.


1906 River Scene. Oil on glass 3 1/16 x 3 in. http://i.imgur.com/80nqLr1.png


On Saturdays, Varley and I hiked the outskirts or took the ferry to Centre Island.


1917 April in Algonquin Park #upclose No. 4 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/lINF6hI.png


1917 April in Algonquin Park #upclose No. 3 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/lkLJzhA.png


I studied the Tamaracks as they turned gold during the approach of winter.


1917 April in Algonquin Park #upclose No. 2 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/rhW6itj.png


1917 April in Algonquin Park #upclose No. 1 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/upR2K5f.png


1917 Early Spring, Algonquin Park #tt1917  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj3IdNhIEAA7Xwq.jpg


1916 Winter Hills in Algonquin Park #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BedWtEhIgAAY6Oo.jpg


1916 View from a height, Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaeoCKeIIAA3EV1.jpg


1916 The Red Maple, Algonquin Park #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQjuy.jpg


Alligator https://i.imgur.com/N56mfbB.png?1


1916 Sunset Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoUIkPeCcAAD39-.jpg


Dam https://i.imgur.com/gCxLtWj.png?1


Expression is a spiritual necessity: self-glorification is a lack of something to express.


1916 Spring Sunset Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqp83HkCYAAuEVo.jpg


1913 Lake in Algonquin Park @NatGalleryCan #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/smx7M1o.jpg


1916 Petawawa, Algonquin Park #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbHxQ0rIUAA3f6W.jpg


1916 Logging Spring Algonquin Park #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdjeLiuIQAAWYhF.jpg


1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVOA.jpg


MacDonald elevated the idea of design to a philosophy - the decorative element is in everything


1916 Autumn Algonquin Park @aeartcentre #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/iowK2Yo.png


1916 Algonquin Park, Autumn #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bf1aHjpIAAAGXNl.jpg


1916 Algonquin Park Vista. #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/ckNhz.jpg


1916 Algonquin Park http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjH5K_QIUAA_Rjd.jpg


Human figures were elusive to paint. I tried but eventually took it as a sign.


1916 Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BazNpAvIgAAAK9J.jpg


1916 Algonquin Evening #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/Mbt33e0.png


1915 Woodland Interior, Algonquin Park #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQgoH.jpg


1915 Nocturne, Algonquin Park  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHu163wWEAA1QbE.png


Highland Inn https://i.imgur.com/oFAV39P.png?2


In July 1916, Camp Borden in Barrie was nicknamed Camp Horror.


1915 Maple Sapling, Algonquin Park  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiNG6ymIAAAGd8m.jpg


1915 Early Autumn, Algonquin Park #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oZmz.jpg


1915 Autumn, Algonquin Park  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaPJSSQCQAIll0G.jpg


In May of 1916 I reported for work in Achray as a fire ranger in the Park


1915 Autumn Woods, Algonquin Park #tt1915   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/aQlDQ.jpg


1917 Larry Dickson's Shack #tt1917 https://i.imgur.com/DbV8n4Z.png


1915 Algonquin Park, September #tt1915 @mcacgallery http://i.imgur.com/SbDGH1Q.png


1915 Algonquin Park #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/1EdoF.jpg


1914-15 In Algonquin Park. Oil on canvas 24 7/8 x 31 15/16 in. #tt1914 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bZcFY.jpg


Man is many things, but he is not rational


1914 Woodland, Algonquin #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8pRDw.jpg


1914 Wood Interior Algonquin, Autumn http://i.imgur.com/XefOMlQ.png


1914 Winter in Algonquin  #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbyV25wIIAAIjds.jpg


1914 Sunset Algonquin Park #tt1914   http://i.imgur.com/JiBko6c.png


Arthur Lismer showed me the way of Constable and the English Watercolourists


1914 Spring, Algonquin  #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/IYH9DTw.png


1914 Spring Algonquin Park #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/BtJtlEp.png


1914 In Algonquin Park #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/uDDK8ep.png


1914 Grey Clouds, Algonquin Park  #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/okqZ2v7.png


The trees, rocks and weather are in my bones.


1914 Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/TJ8xrnq.png


1914 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/BeQU4yX.png


1914 Algonquin Wood #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/FoIQkwC.jpg


Love art whether you accept it or not.


1914 Algonquin Park #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/TmU6FJf.png


1914 Algonquin Park  #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/sXIKytw.png


1914 Afternoon, Algonquin Park  #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/W63diLF.jpg?3


In late 1913 Dr MacCallum offered to pay my expenses for a year to dedicate myself to painting.


1913 Lakeshore, Algonquin #tt1913 http://i.imgur.com/yL6fyG1.png


1913 Lake in Algonquin Park @gallerydotca #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/smx7M1o.jpg


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1913 Canoe and Lake, Algonquin Park, Spring #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/H4A9fsI.png


1913 Autumn, Algonquin Park #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/wVJ0cPU.png


I was keenly interested in the work of Van Gogh


1913 Autumn Algonquin #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/vxoyGtj.png


1913 Algonquin Park #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/IMP02uB.png


1912 Moose at Twilight, Algonquin Park #tt1912 http://i.imgur.com/cHBp3QQ.png


1912 Dawn in Algonquin Park http://i.imgur.com/adqokPW.png


Early in 1916 I made a trip to the north end of Algonquin Park. That's where I painted the West Wind.


1912 Dawn at Algonquin Park #tt1912  http://i.imgur.com/7nVihiO.png


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


1908 Girl's Head http://i.imgur.com/UGAGwwn.png


Oct 01 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 58F LOW 33F http://i.imgur.com/X3RrMzj.png


The weather has been very rotten all through our trip, never dry for more than 24 hours at a time #ttletter


Jackson was such a talker. I was such a good audience for him


Harris experiments with broken colour.


Tom Thomson canoeing to Little Wap Island: http://youtu.be/5tqHuEoNKy8


There are advantages to remaining free, especially as an artist with little to no earnings.


1905 George Thomson Brother #tt1905  http://i.imgur.com/vVEZh78.jpg


Grand Trunk Union Station in Ottawa, 1916 http://i.imgur.com/JtwsZS5.png


I discussed the War a lot with Ed Godin. I was against it.


Follow the Journal of My Last Spring ttlastspring.com http://i.imgur.com/dZubZu0.png


It was my interest in advertising that led me to photoengraving.


Torment is part of the artist's job description


I am not proud of my painting but am cocky about my fishing.


Pumphouse #upclose https://i.imgur.com/uoCC8au.png


I have self-doubts , but I am grateful for Dr. MacCallum's unwavering faith in my work.


Of the creatures that alter the landscape in the North, beavers run a far second to our fellow man.


When Jackson returned to Algonquin Park in the fall of 1914, he said that  had made remarkable progress.


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


1914 The Brook. #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/SGASHyx.png


If I don't like someone, I'd simplly eliminate from my way of living.


In 1908 I was hired as a lettering assistant at Grip. My job - finishing the detailed work of the more talented artists


My profession is painting, not fighting.


My sketching style evolved quickly because the North demands quick adaptation to its environment.


1905 Blessing by Robbie Burns  http://i.imgur.com/ILzhEkw.png


The trees, rocks and weather are in my bones.


Jim MacDonald taught me the importance of design, the use of the decorative as form


In the summer of 1916, Harris was training at Camp Horror, otherwise known as Camp Borden.


I need to get the feel as well as the look of country.


1914-15 Petawawa Gorges (Early Spring) #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8rBHe.jpg


War, like love, like religion makes all things new again. Written by poet knowing no difference between romance and horror.


Good art is understood with the mind's eye


Jackson had only known me for a year - but I became his best friend.


Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report  @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/BCUX0


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Toronto World: Sep 30 1916: BRITAIN STRAIGHTEN LINE, STILL ADVANCE


WAKE UP CANADA! http://t.co/X66EAmCqBu


Jackson was such a talker. I was such a good audience for him


1917 Spring #upclose No. 1 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/VRPd3v2.png


Sep 30 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 60F LOW 32F


I have a good opinion of the work of others, but a poor opinion of my own.


This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter


When I was intensely painting I noticed no one - not even bears.


1915-16 Birch Grove, Autumn #ttcanvas found at @TheAGH http://i.imgur.com/5aNFzXv.png


I try hard to make my large pieces rise above good decoration.


Guiding yourself to bed by candlelight makes life feel less complicated.


Being right isn't all there is to life.


Lismer said that the first night up North with me in Spring 1914*was a turning point in his life.


1917 In the Woods #tt1917  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7978Q.jpg


In 1901 I went to Seattle and was a lift-boy in a hotel.


A clump of birches is enough inspiration for me to paint a sketch.


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


1916 White Birches Round Lake #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6VZMl.jpg


The Studio Building was great for painting large canvases. The Shack - even better.


Is my duty to be in the trenches, killing or being killed in the name of love of country?


@mowatlodge - where the living is cheap and the sketching is good.


As artists, we were all influenced by the Art Nouveau movement: lines, loops and whorls.


1916 A View from a Height #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/nwJG.jpg


I thought of putting in my application for a Park Rangers job and went down to Headquarters with that idea.


Gilmour Company closed its operation on Canoe Lake in 1900


It's thunder that scares the hell out of you, but it's the lightning that kills


Jackson and myself have been making quite a few sketches lately and I will send a bunch down with Lismer #ttletter


1905 Sailing Ships Graphite, and watercolour on paper 3 7/8 x 6 in. http://i.imgur.com/F9k2d7j.png


After I finished my fire ranging job in late summer of 1916  I camped for the better part of two months.


I would lose interest in painting in the summer. Uninteresting greens gave way to other pursuits. Fishing, women and dancing.


Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report  @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/BCUX0


Toronto World: Sep 29 1917: RUSSIANS GAIN CONTROL IN THE CARPATHIANS


In December 1914, I contributed In Algonquin Park to the Canadian Patriotic Fund http://t.co/VUyiCd8Bhs


1915 Ragged Lake #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpSBpdfCQAAh0jd.jpg


Sep 29 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 71F LOW 26F


Jimmy MacDonald helped me to incorporate strong design principles in my work.


No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen


No theory can take the place of experience.


I found the social atmosphere at Go Home Bay too much. I liked being alone


1916 Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiEEq8VCIAMABxx.jpg


I was a compulsive but sporadic reader - Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler I kept with me always


Roll up your blanket, go into the bush, and when you return, wreak your soul on a canvas.


The War has corrected harm arising from fatalistic individualism - 1916 Varsity War Supplement.


Through you have nothing to do, you have hardly any time to spare when you are alone in the woods


1915 Canoe Lake http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnzIGRyCcAAqnd7.jpg


There is nothing to celebrate in the sadness, suffering and desolation of War


Lismer said that the first night up North with me in Spring 1914*was a turning point in his life.


Varley was explosive; Lismer, sedate. Carmichael kept silent, while Johnston insisted in working in tempera.


Art was not to be taught by words. - Izaak Walton


1912 The Canoe #tt1912 @agotoronto http://i.imgur.com/3pk97PV.jpg


Park Rule: Song birds and nest and eggs of all birds are protected at all times.


In a large gathering I have nothing to say, but in the company of friends I am a different man


Shannon Fraser has a vacuum where his Conscience might be.


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Natural Causes? #ttfate8 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


Harris, MacDonald, Beatty, Heming, Williamson, Jackson and me: first tenants of Studio Bldg.


1916 Moonlight and Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaLWyR3IUAAIbMJ.jpg


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Disappearance? #ttfate7 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


Nature is the greatest teacher, imagination is the greatest artist.


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Poacher? #ttfate6 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


MacDonald elevated the idea of design to a philosophy - the decorative element is in everything


I don't talk much. I would rather sit on the floor, back against the wall, playing my mandolin.


I kept fearing I would make a fool of myself


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Hugh Trainor? #ttfate4 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


1905 Self-Portrait  http://i.imgur.com/ajnpGH9.jpg


In 1908 I joined the engraving house, Grip Ltd - it was my graphic arts university.


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Martin Blecher? #ttfate3 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Suicide? #ttfate2 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


The North is my refuge. It's where I can live the simple life.


Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report  @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/BCUX0


1902 Spring or Summer Scene with Houses http://i.imgur.com/FOpcXCZ.png


Sep 28 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 78F LOW 38F


All the fishing there is up in the north country is pike and they are so thick there is no fun in it. #ttletter


Artists were accused of the moral degneracy that led to the War.


MacDonald made his first visit to Algonquin in March 1914. Jackson had been there a month.


A friend is a sane man that exercises not my ingenuity but me.


1914 French River http://t.co/TlgEl5OfUf #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/80gkqQg.png


I found everything beautiful: burnt and drowned land, log chutes, beaver dams, wild flowers and placid lakes.


In 1916 we would make fire towers of tall pines on the hill. We build ladder-steps into the tops of the trees.


Artists at first need to imitate.Unfortunately, Jackson said, there was nothing worth imitating in Toronto


1916 Moonlight and Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaLWyR3IUAAIbMJ.jpg


Love art whether you accept it or not.


1915 Split Rock, Georgian Bay #tt1915 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbI-umxIEAA7pV5.jpg


1915-16 Moonlight Oil on canvas 35 x 28 1/4 in. Private Collection. http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQhLX.jpg


In December 1914, I contributed In Algonquin Park to the Canadian Patriotic Fund http://t.co/VUyiCd8Bhs


1915 Moonlight. #tt1915 Oil on composite wood-pulp board 10 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. Private Collection http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bZDJN.jpg


1915 Hot Summer Moonlight  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Buuh9-TIMAAcFES.jpg


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


1914 Moonlight http://t.co/TlgEl5OfUf #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BauB3QVIcAArKUh.jpg


1913 Moonlight Nocturne #tt1913  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oWqQ.jpg


I had the reputation of being an ornery person on occasion and a womanizer.


1913 Moonlight #tt1913   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8pQVe.jpg


Park Advice: A year employment in the bush will cure anyone in the incipient stages of consumption


1916-17 Maple Saplings, October - canvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/1Ik45.jpg


Full moon rising tonight at 6:43pm. Blood Moon.


A clump of birches is enough inspiration for me to paint a sketch.


The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses ~ GTR brochure


Lismer moved in with me for the winter of 1915-16.


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Natural Causes? #ttfate8 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


1915-16 In the Northland http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQhgG.jpg


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Disappearance? #ttfate7 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


I'm reserved, shy, chary of society


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Suicide? #ttfate2 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Accident? #ttfate1 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf


Fred Varley was convinced I had psychic powers.


Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report  @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/BCUX0


I hate authority being imposed on me


1910 Margaret Thomson, my mother #tt1910 http://i.imgur.com/OlUBfs9.png


1915 Northern River  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Be0yttiIMAAtpsU.png


Sep 27 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 70F LOW 55F


I try hard to make my large pieces rise above good decoration.


Jackson said I had a knack for simplifying, eliminating and reorganizing a scene.


Human figures were elusive to paint. I tried but eventually took it as a sign.


Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.


1911 Big Elm #tt1911 @TheTomThomson https://goo.gl/maps/QuCEF95p5932 http://i.imgur.com/UtC9tjF.png


Fred Varley tried to play matchmaker but I felt unworthy of the match.


Jackson said of Bill Beatty, 'He is so soaked in monochrome that mild things excite him.'


1915 Northern Lights #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8qIe2.jpg


1916 Autumn #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQjkM.jpg


Harris experiments with broken colour.


If you like ghosts then follow me. ttlastspring.com


1916 Autumn #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbZnYeNIUAAMOA2.jpg


People refused to believe I was painting real trees. Finally, Jackson had to say 'Yes, what Tom is painting is really there'


1916 West Wind #tt1916  http://i.imgur.com/JaTh2DP.png


Art was not to be taught by words. - Izaak Walton


Jackson knew how to draw out my talent rather than hammering in me technique.


A lovely landscape cannot appreciated by an unlovely mind.


1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVOA.jpg


1913 Windy Evening  #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/zKlhbGh.jpg


1916 Aura Lee Lake  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bgmi9z_IcAARwps.jpg


Why did the body take eight days to rise in the middle of July? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB6SSwbWMAA4HCq.jpg


Alone in a studio, one learns next to nothing about painting and nothing about life.


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Natural Causes? #ttfate8 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB6SSwbWMAA4HCq.jpg


1916 Approaching Snowstorm #1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6W3U4.jpg


Mark Robinson: I did not see anything to indicate more than ordinary friendship with @WinnieTrainor https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNsyBFWWwAAJe4W.jpg


Park Advice: A year employment in the bush will cure anyone in the incipient stages of consumption


1916 Autumn Foliage #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794zK.jpg


1916 Algonquin Park Vista. #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/ckNhz.jpg


He was buried first of all near the spot where he was found, but shortly afterwards his body was removed to Leith https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNs45iIU8AAYwh1.png


I indulged myself in the brilliant fall colours, but truth is, spring is my favourite season.


1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQizh.jpg


1916 Algonquin Park, Autumn #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bf1aHjpIAAAGXNl.jpg


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Poacher? #ttfate6 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNs45iIU8AAYwh1.png


Only three burials purported at Canoe Lake: Jas Watson 1897, Hayhurt child, 1915 and Tom Thomson, 1917 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CB6SSwbWMAA4HCq.jpg


I love the northern woods.


1916 Summer Clouds http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bub27QKCcAALSJI.jpg


1916 Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BazNpAvIgAAAK9J.jpg


Mr Churchill was the only person who was supposed to exhume the body - there is considerable doubt he did https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNsyBFWWwAAJe4W.jpg


Do not mix the waters of friendship too much.


1916 Algonquin Park  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjH5K_QIUAA_Rjd.jpg


The attacker may have panicked and the attempt to hide my body resulted in my final death https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNs45iIU8AAYwh1.png


I began my career as a painter in 1906 by copying others.


Mysterious Fates of Tom: Hugh Trainor? #ttfate4 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Nf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBeA7tAU0AE9Dqf.jpg


1916 Autumn Hillside  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxG2unNIcAAeIlM.jpg


1916 A View from a Height #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/nwJG.jpg


HB Jackson: In painting, Tom followed his own ideas https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBeBb9AUwAAtuKc.jpg


When Jackson enlisted and left Toronto in 1915, Frankin Carmichael moved into the Studio with me


1916  Rainbow http://t.co/zXyT7oFQZ6 #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiVVxbQCQAAzKr8.jpg


Louise Henry: Of all outdoor sports, I believe fishing was Tom's favorite pastime.  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBeA7tAU0AE9Dqf.jpg


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


1913 Northern Clouds, Fall #tt1913  http://i.imgur.com/5FxN1cG.png


1916  Petawawa Gorges  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bresz6FCMAEo3k6.jpg


AE Ranney: The evidence from the other six witnesses points that the cause of death was drowning.AE Ranney:  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNsyBFWWwAAJe4W.jpg


I find power in my sketches - small but meaningful.


1916 Nocturne  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrLz26HCEAIVKgk.jpg


Charles Plewman: Tom had contemplated doing something on earlier occasions but had not mustered sufficient courage. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNs45iIU8AAYwh1.png


When Jackson and I shared our knowledge of the North and art, it magically multiplied.


Algonquin Park Fall Colour Report  @Algonquin_PP http://ow.ly/BCUX0


Ed Godin: As I remember Tom did not think that Canada should be involvedin the War. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPmtv9rW8AAwx9c.jpg


1916 Little Cauchon Lake #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797Ql.jpg


Sep 26 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 60F LOW 55F


All the pretty girls are at Cache Lake.


I am interested in the technical side of painting rather than the theoretical.


Despite my awkwardness, I could do things with colour that nobody could


1914 Giant's Tomb Georgian Bay #tt1914  http://i.imgur.com/qfUop8u.png


When Jackson and I were in the Studio Building we took our meals at a bar on Yonge St. or the Busy Bee Resto.


I freely gave away my sketchs usually in return for a minor obligation.


My father did not believe I had the grit to stick things out


English art is a generation behind. Canadian art, a century.


1917 West Wind ##ttcanvas http://i.imgur.com/N1KUrzB.png


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


In 1908 I was hired as a lettering assistant at Grip. My job - finishing the detailed work of the more talented artists


1916 Moonlight Over Canoe Lake #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVq6.jpg


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


I love the northern woods.


1916 Islands Canoe Lake  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhzR7fBIAAAkwdp.jpg


The Studio Building was great for painting large canvases. The Shack - even better.


Shannon Fraser confided he felt had actually happened. Tom was engaged to marry Miss Trainor. #WhoKilledTomThomson ttlastspring.com https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNsyBFWWwAAJe4W.jpg


I never thought of becoming a professional painter until I met Harris and MacDonald


Shannon Fraser might have been asked to rough Tom up a bit. #WhoKilledTomThomson ttlastspring.com https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNs45iIU8AAYwh1.png


Be humble, be healthy, be willing to be taught.


1915 Autumn Woods, Algonquin Park #tt1915   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/aQlDQ.jpg


There are always a lot of reports after a death like his. #WhoKilledTomThomson ttlastspring.com https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNsyBFWWwAAJe4W.jpg


Sometime I feel like a phoney and fear my work will be revealed for what it is.


A moment is a hard thing to capture.


I like red maples but I like dislike red tape


Haunting until 2017 http://wp.me/p2YBXq-Q1


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My profession is painting, not fighting.


I never married.


I would produce more from uninspired material while my chums were of searching for inspired material.


Lift it up, bring it out.


When Jackson and I were in the Studio Building we took our meals at a bar on Yonge St. or the Busy Bee Resto.


I knew all of the birds and their song.


I helped Taylor Statten by hauling sand from Sims Pit to build his cottage chimney on Little Wap Island.


Lismer said that I could smell the colour of ice.


Park Rule: Song birds and nest and eggs of all birds are protected at all times.


Mystery is not the same a misunderstanding.


The trees, rocks and weather are in my bones.


If it works, it is true.


Harris was attracted to the occult


Sep 22 1916: Temperatures for today, HIGH 64F LOW 47F


Harris experiments with broken colour.


There is more to come. ttlastspring.com


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I was once called an "Expressionist Brute'


I often produced something that I never intended.


According to 1916 Saturday Night, MacDonald is the chief offender on throwing paint pots at the Public.


I go to church but have no formal religion.


It was in May of 1912 when I first camped in Algonquin.


I burnt much of my work but an impressive amount remains


I had the reputation of being an ornery person on occasion and a womanizer.


Learn the mystery of my fate. ttlastspring.com #ttfate7


1914 Northern Lake #tt1914 http://ow.ly/i/6W9en


Without a pipe of tobacco and a good drink nothing can be done.


I embrace solitude


Follow me.


I helped my Uncle Brodie, a well-known naturalist, gather specimens. He gave me the eye for the details of nature.


1916 Poplars by the Lake #tt1916 https://i.imgur.com/6AQ8Jq7.png


From my Uncle Brodie I learned to observe nature closely and appreciate its detail when sketching.


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


It was in the autumn of 1915, after Carmichael had married, that I moved into the Shack behind the Studio.


Algonquin Park was mostly enjoyed by vacationing Americans and a few eccentric artists.


1917 Early Spring, Algonquin Park  #tt1917  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoZaP9-IcAAY2Fw.jpg


I considered my sketches as records of their own, not preparatory works for canvases.


After I finished my fire ranging job in late summer of 1916  I camped for the better part of two months.


Dr MacCallum encouraged Jackson to have an art show at the Arts and Letters club in 1913. Critics were merciless.


I play the mandolin, sing and love music.


1911 Moose in  River Landscape Oil on Canvas 50.8 x 76.2 cm #tt1911 https://i.imgur.com/noXkxdS.png


I mastered painting on unfinished boards. I painted to the loss of oil leeching into the wood


My neighbours never thought of my father as a serious farmer.


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1916 Jack Pine Sketch #upclose No. 2 #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/SQOpL2S.png


Lismer taught me lightness of touch, MacDonald vigour of colour, and Jackson, mood and atmosphere.


Follow the Journal of My Last Spring ttlastspring.com


Near sunrise


I do not philosphize nor do I analyze myself.


Dawn is nigh


I helped my Uncle Brodie, a well-known naturalist, gather specimens. He gave me the eye for the details of nature.


1915 Nocturne, Fall #tt1915 http://i.imgur.com/cudZf3r.png


I would see a thousand things in the wilderness that others missed. I knew where to find subjects.


In the midst of the night


One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.


In May 1915, after the sinking of the Lusitania, electric signs advertising German beer in Toronto were removed.


1908 Tiger in a Heart http://i.imgur.com/t1US01D.jpg


In the summer of 1915 the Lismers moved in with the MacDonalds to farm for cash crops.


Later in the night


I like to prepare my canvases so that they are of the same colour as my boards.


Art is deeper than steam, electricity, balloons and astronomy


1907 Portrait of a Woman http://i.imgur.com/VhaAmkx.png


In my youth I had bouts of illness that kept me home from school.


Shannon Fraser has a vacuum where his Conscience might be.


1917 April in Algonquin Park #upclose No. 2 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/rhW6itj.png


For the landscape to paint, I was indebted to the lumber companies; dams, log shutes, camp clearings


When back in the city, I can never get Algonquin Park out of my head.


Varley marvelled at how I could jump in the air and snap on the electric light.


In 1915 I went up to Owen Sound for a day to see my sister Minnie from out West. Did not see her for 8 years


1915-16 The Pool #ttcanvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794oy.jpg


The typical Canadian is materialistic and conventional.


Jackson had only known me for a year - but I became his best friend.


Arthur Lismer said he never saw a porcupine, so I introduced him to a family of porcupines.


I once went on a long canoe trip with George Rowe. After 3 weeks, I lost 22 pounds.


1917 Early Spring #tt1917  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7h8Ro.jpg


I first met Dr. MacCallum in October 1912 when he visited Jim MacDonald's studio


War, like love, like religion makes all things new again. Written by poet knowing no difference between romance and horror.


I hate authority being imposed on me


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


1916 Purple Hill http://t.co/zXyT7oFQZ6 #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrK7K7dCEAEoBOi.jpg


I have my own way of dealing with self-inflated people.


Toronto has become too military for my liking. Even the children dress as soliders.


Fred Varley was convinced I had psychic powers.


1915 White Birches Round Lake #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgzHosXIcAAdaWK.jpg


My silence was not of a cold defensive personality - it was because of my directness and integrity.


In the spring I would pack up my bags, roll up my blankets, and take the first train to Algonquin.


Artists needn't worry about earning potential. It only happens  after your expiry date


When I first arrived in Algonquin Park in 1913 it was a quiet place. Few lumbermen, fewer tourists.


I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree - poet Joyce Kilmer


1914 Approaching Storm Oil on plywood 21.6 x 26.7 cm #tt1914 https://i.imgur.com/hbiZ6Ka.png


Study the subject up close first before painting from afar


Beauty is buried under the thick layers of the obvious.


Some say my colours are exaggerated, but that was the very colour in the light of the moment.


When I was intensely painting I noticed no one - not even bears.


1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oVOA.jpg


When I painted a sketch, I had to get on with it, without worrying about the composition.


Because of my poor knowledge of European art I was free to create mine own


I never studied art, but I briefly attended business college.


It is our savage nature gives us creativity and passion.


1917 Spring #upclose No. 3 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/0PiVHdE.png


Canoes are too small to accommodate clashing personalities


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


Dr MacCallum tried to find out animal-like shapes in our brushstrokes. It annoyed us.


1915 Wild Cherries, Spring #tt1915   http://i.imgur.com/rNks90g.jpg


MacDonald and I were considered the old horses in the stable of Grip.


In the spring I would pack up my bags, roll up my blankets, and take the first train to Algonquin.


I enjoy walking, I once walked 20 miles in a blizzard to Meaford and then back.


For the landscape to paint, I was indebted to the lumber companies; dams, log shutes, camp clearings


1916 Tamarack Swamp #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BahHTSBIYAAZIqA.jpg


Jimmy MacDonald had the messiest desk at Grip. If you lost something you looked for under his mess.


I stripped my life down to its bare essential.


Jackson once said there are no Cubists in Vienna but there is one in Canoe Lake.


Jackson knows the line 'where sanity ends and the kingdom of freaks begins.'


1915 First Snow, Canoe Lake http://i.imgur.com/mqFhTnF.jpg


I started working at Grip in 1908. That's where I met Jim MacDonald.


Art was not to be taught by words. - Izaak Walton


It was in the autumn of 1915, after Carmichael had married, that I moved into the Shack behind the Studio.


Do not mix the waters of friendship too much.


One can never have too much red in a painting.


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


You can judge a moose by the size of its antlers. Too bad there's no similar rule for judging men.


I'm happy when I come through with my sketches, despondent when I don't


1903 Girl Looking in a Mirror http://i.imgur.com/qDbvsRX.jpg


Toronto has become too military for my liking. Even the children dress as soliders.


In Seattle is where I started watercolours, designing and poring over art magazines.


Harris was one of the few artists close to me.


1916 Timber Chute #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6W9cl.jpg


I can never keep straight who is fighting whom overseas


I never thought of becoming a professional painter until I met Harris and MacDonald


1915 Snow in the Woods #tt1915 http://i.imgur.com/8vo806D.jpg


Harris was attracted to the occult


I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.


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


I helped my Uncle Brodie, a well-known naturalist, gather specimens. He gave me the eye for the details of nature.


1916 Twilight #tt1916 #upclose2 http://i.imgur.com/BSGoTMM.png


In the summer of 1914 while returning to Algonquin, I met Premier Borden in Muskoka


In 1915 I had to adapt to Toronto - I would go out when only necessary during daytime and exercise by walking at night.


As a youth I spent a year out of school because of illness. It gave me time to wander alone in nature.


Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?


1914 White Birches #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/3oQL1Y1.png


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


I attended business school in Chatham, run by my older brother George. That was a mistake.


I helped Taylor Statten by hauling sand from Sims Pit to build his cottage chimney on Little Wap Island.


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


1916 Pointer Boats #upclose 2 #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/BDyRhML.png


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


1917 After the Storm  #tt1917  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtBeb2dCcAEx4fH.jpg


Mississauga is considered the finest canoe trip in the world. #ttletter


1916 Approaching Snowstorm #1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6W3U4.jpg


1915-16 After the Sleet Storm #ttcanvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7h8Qs.jpg


The critic, Carl Ahrens, is an ass. So is Hector Charlesworth.


1915 Stormy Sky #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6W9dJ.jpg


1915 Approaching Snowstorm #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/793Nr.jpg


I was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin. I had a few Chaplin stunts to dazzle my friends.


1916 Ice in Spring #tt1916 @NatGalleryCan http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797ko.jpg


1913 Stormy Evening #tt1913  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/793cP.jpg


1913 Northern Lake, Forming Storm #tt1913   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8UQxX.jpg


Prime Minister Borden thought Duke of Connaught to be a dimwit


1913 Landscape with Storm Clouds, Summer #tt1913  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8UQig.jpg


1908 Stormy Weather. Watercolour on paper 9 1/2 x 14 in. http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/ckMzT.jpg


1916-17 Maple Saplings, October - canvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/1Ik45.jpg


1916-17 Maple Saplings #ttcanvas  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7h8KW.jpg


Harris, a Theosophist, MacDonald, a Transcendentalist, I just liked to paint


1916 The Red Maple, Algonquin Park #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQjuy.jpg


In a large gathering I have nothing to say, but in the company of friends I am a different man


1917 Early Spring  #tt1917  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoaBB8RCQAAvcp5.jpg


1915 Maple Saplings #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/original/bPgCA.png


If you want to be a critic of mine, be familiar with the trees, rocks, lakes, rivers, have them in your bones


1914 Twisted Maple  #tt1914  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfTmwhiIAAAR2U8.jpg


Park Rule: Song birds and nest and eggs of all birds are protected at all times.


1911 Summer Landscape. Oil on paperboard 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.  http://i.imgur.com/zWPMpqM.png


The mechanized god of war has outraced the right of man to live


MacDonald had second thoughts about submitting The Tangle Garden in the 1916 OSA Exhibition.


London was full of excessive drinking, gambling and eager experimentation with morphine and chloroform.


1916 Little Cauchon Lake #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797Ql.jpg


There is no evidence I ever went out to western Canada but that does not rule out the possibility.


My sense of colour came from my Seattle days where I saw the birth of the coloured images on the printed page


I knew all of the birds and their song.


1915 Lumber Dam #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6W3Su.jpg


I saw the challenges Fred Varley providing for his family. I didn't want that.


Jimmy MacDonald had the messiest desk at Grip. If you lost something you looked for under his mess.


I am restless under restraints and conventions. I am angry at injustices.


A good portrait can be peed into the snow.


Jim MacDonald is a fan of Van Gogh. Me too.


You work with your mind not with your hands


People refused to believe I was painting real trees. Finally, Jackson had to say 'Yes, what Tom is painting is really there'


I do not philosphize nor do I analyze myself.


A lovely landscape cannot appreciated by an unlovely mind.


Deal with the crisis of the day, then have tea.


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


No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen


Those who go a-borrowing go a-sorrowing.


Sometimes I paint as if my life depended upon it. Sometimes I fail.


After a while in the City, I had enough of being a dandy - I wanted to get back into the bush


As artists, we were all influenced by the Art Nouveau movement: lines, loops and whorls.


Nothing in the natural world is meaningless.


I am generous to the point of being careless about money.


Jackson said of Bill Beatty, 'He is so soaked in monochrome that mild things excite him.'


I would freely give away my sketches if admired


My father valued hard work - for others.


Arthur Lismer was mesmerized by the Canadian landscape - so different from England


1917 April in Algonquin Park #upclose No. 4 #tt1917 http://i.imgur.com/lINF6hI.png


I think Daphne Crombie had the eyes for me. Trouble was, she was married and I was not


Electric light of the city does look beautiful - when refracted through filthy air.


It was in the autumn of 1915, after Carmichael had married, that I moved into the Shack behind the Studio.


I dislike Government patronage.


I was as shy and cautious as a deer.


MacDonald liked to write poetry, then tear it up.


1910 Untitled Landscape #tt1910 @kwartgallery https://i.imgur.com/SwXR7WW.png


The camera was enjoying great popularity but the need for Northern landscape painters was not yet felt.


Some say my colours are exaggerated, but that was the very colour in the light of the moment.


Love art whether you accept it or not.


1914 Sleet Storm #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/ZEMRjx2.png


Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.


The dazzling electric lights of the city at night don't make up from the grayness in the day.


In June 1915, Jackson enlisted as a private in the Sixtieth Battalion


In 1916 we would make fire towers of tall pines on the hill. We build ladder-steps into the tops of the trees.


1916 Autumn Petawawa #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbmwWyCIMAAJVqe.jpg


In my early days back in Toronto, I enjoyed the city immensely. I was a bit of a dandy.


I had something that nobody else could acquire - the north in my blood.


I was impressed by Jackson's 'Edge of the Maple Wood' at the 1912 OSA Exhibition.


I like the Scandinavian works I see in magazines. Dabs of complementary colours heighten the brilliance I see.


1906 Lady in Her Garden #tt1906  http://i.imgur.com/XpXKTsH.png


You can judge a moose by the size of its antlers. Too bad there's no similar rule for judging men.


Jackson and I were so poor that we could only afford the occasional film at the cinema.


I have self-doubts , but I am grateful for Dr. MacCallum's unwavering faith in my work.


I had the reputation of being an ornery person on occasion and a womanizer.


1916 Lake and Red Tree, fall 1916. Oil on wood panel, 21.5 x 27 cm.#tt1916 1916LakeandRedTree.jpg


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


The North is my refuge. It's where I can live the simple life.


The weather has been very rotten all through our trip, never dry for more than 24 hours at a time #ttletter


1916 Pointer Boats #upclose 3 #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/vPcSPl5.png


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


It was in May of 1912 when I first camped in Algonquin.


Jackson described a canvas of Harris as Tomato Soup.


1915 Footsteps in the Snow #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/924Zw.jpg


You work with your mind not with your hands


If I painted city scenes, I would run out of grey.


I can see directly into the landscape and transform it.


Study the subject up close first before painting from afar


1913 Evening Fall #tt1913 http://i.imgur.com/bIXSHEN.png


A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.


Know the price of free advice.


Wilderness is a source of power.


1905 Sufficiency Watercolour on card http://i.imgur.com/uJ4akBT.png


Jim MacDonald introduced me to Thoreau and Emerson


I was keenly interested in the work of Van Gogh


1915 Autumn Birches and Poplars, Canoe Lake #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/78fEY.jpg


The land that raises you will always be a part of you.


I dislike Government patronage.


I never truly realized what I had, but others did.


Jim MacDonald has been branded the most radical artist in Toronto. Nobody wants to buy his art now.


1915 Spring Ice #tt1915   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oZg8.jpg


MacDonald had second thoughts about submitting The Tangle Garden in the 1916 OSA Exhibition.


I would produce more from uninspired material while my chums were of searching for inspired material.


I am interested in the technical side of painting rather than the theoretical.


By 1904 I was back in Toronto. I lived in numerous boarding houses for 10 years


1915 Split Rock, Georgian Bay #tt1915 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbI-umxIEAA7pV5.jpg


There's no place for a sketch outfit when you’re fire ranging.


In the summer of 1914 while returning to Algonquin, I met Premier Borden in Muskoka


1917 Snow and Earth #tt1917 @TheTomThomson https://goo.gl/maps/QuCEF95p5932 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaZrj8TIAAAT6vM.jpg


I never interfere with my friends' affairs, but the reverse isn't necessarily true


It was Fred Varley who originally encouraged me to devote more time to art.


If I painted city scenes, I would run out of grey.


1913 Northern Lake, Forming Storm #tt1913   http://i.imgur.com/jmo4i0W.png


I feel like it is my duty to paint canvases but my real joy is sketching my boards,


I was as shy and cautious as a deer.


In fly-fishing for trout one must observe his twelve several flies. Izaak Walton


1915 Sunset #tt1915 #upclose 3 of 4 https://i.imgur.com/H9rF50t.png


My two preoccupations: the sky with its magic configurations and the miracle of spring.


Lawren Harris said I was a fine companion - direct, straightforward, and naturally at home in the lakes and woods.


Mississauga is considered the finest canoe trip in the world. #ttletter


Harris said that Camp Borden was rotten hole.


1913 Misty Sky http://t.co/TlgEl5OfUf #tt1913 http://t.co/FHCWLLFbwR http://i.imgur.com/yViU00z.jpg


MacDonald had second thoughts about submitting The Tangle Garden in the 1916 OSA Exhibition.


As I was returning in late 1916, the Duke of Connaught was being chased out of the country.


I attended business school in Chatham, run by my older brother George. That was a mistake.


1917 Birches  #tt1917  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoZyaafIEAIAIAN.jpg


1916 White Birches Round Lake #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6VZMl.jpg


1916 Nocturne: The Birches #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrQ67pNCYAImJTh.jpg


1916 Nocture The Birches #tt1914  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/6W3OW.jpg


1916 Moonlight and Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaLWyR3IUAAIbMJ.jpg


1916 Forest Interior Birches #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQioL.jpg


1916 Decorative Landscape Birches  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/794qc.jpg


1916 Birches  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiEEq8VCIAMABxx.jpg


Early in 1916 I made a trip to the north end of Algonquin Park. That's where I painted the West Wind.


1916 Birch Woods in Autumn #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797aZ.jpg


1916 Birch Grove #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/797a2.jpg


1915 A Rapid #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi259FuIQAAibyk.jpg


1916 Birch by a Lake with  Big Cloud  #tt1916  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br3q5VkCMAILX9z.jpg


1916 Autumn Birches #tt1916 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bQiQc.jpg


1915 White Birches Round Lake #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgzHosXIcAAdaWK.jpg


1915 Silver Birches #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BghZ6LVIYAAD8LH.jpg


I was accused of going to the Dufond Indian Farm whenever I wanted to do the Rain Dance.


1915 Pink Birches  #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BnrT2sVIYAAHHeS.jpg


1915 Birches and Cedar #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/bPgKm.jpg


1915 Birches #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfLv_D4IEAA5dnJ.jpg


1915 Birch and Spruce Smoke Lake #tt1915  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8oCDN.jpg


Jackson said he had to wean me away from Varley so I could see new possibilities


1915 Big Birch #tt1915 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BxdWG31CEAAuKhs.jpg


1915 Big Birch - current location unknown #tt1915  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHu1DGtUsAAKBs2.png


1915 Autumn Birches and Poplars, Canoe Lake #tt1915 http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/78fEY.jpg


1913 Birches 8x11 inches oil on paperboard http://www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue_images/main_lg/1130035%20Birches%20fall%201913%20Hart%20House.jpg


It was in Algonquin Park that I found my real home.


1913 Birches near Campsite, Canoe Lake, Spring #tt1913   http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/8UQcf.jpg


1916 Trees, Red Hill and Sunset Sky #tt1916  http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/7977Q.jpg


I was once called an "Expressionist Brute'


Shall I not be real as the things I see?


I spent many hours standing behind Jackson, puffing my pipe.