Showing posts with label algonquin park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label algonquin park. Show all posts

Saturday, July 6, 2013

seized an opening to create something unique


"[He] was not a talker, not a writer."
- West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson

Tuesday, October 16, 2012


"Gazing man is keenest on sparing beauty. To most people [Tom] Thomson's country was a monstrous, dreary waste. Yet out of one little stretch he found riches undreamed of. Not knowing the conventional definition of beauty he found it all beautiful."
- A.Y. Jackson regarding Tom Tomson

Monday, October 20, 2008

The West Wind


Tom Thompson [1877-1917] died under mysterious circumstances at Canoe Lake in Algonguin Park; he is usually considered to be a member of the Group of Seven even though he passed away before the Group formally formed in the 1920s.

An updated reference on this blog to the Group of Seven here.