Tom thomson

To see a World in a Grain of Sand--- And a Heaven in a Wild Flower--- Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand--- And Eternity in an hour.....William Blake

Tom Thomson’s landscapes were influenced by British painter John Constable and by Art Nouveau design but his colours were all his own. Read about his influential style.

Tom Thomson | Art Gallery of Ontario

From a media release: White Pine Pictures presents WEST WIND The Vision of Tom Thomson Directed by Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont West...

Tom Thomson disappeared during a canoeing trip on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park on July 8, 1917. He made this painting of the lake two years before. (Tom Thomson, Canoe Lake, c. 1915, oil on wood,...

McMichael Canadian Art Collection, The McMichael has an impressive collection of the Group of Seven, and of contemporary First Nations art.

Tom Thomson, the brilliant, pioneering Canadian artist for whom the City of Owen Sound’s Art Gallery is named, was born near Claremont, Ontario, northeast of Toronto on August 5, 1877, the sixth of ten children born to John Thomson and Margaret Matheson. Two months later, the family moved to their new home, Rose Hill, near Leith, eleven kilometres northeast of Owen Sound. It was in this quiet rolling country side, overlooking the shores of Georgian Bay that Thomson grew up. Thomson was…

Tom Thomson is often wrongly assumed to have been a member of the Group of Seven. He almost certainly would have been had he not died too soon.

An oil sketch by Tom Thomson has sold for nearly $2 million at auction in Toronto, a record for the iconic Canadian artist.