Wilderness is a source of power.
Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
1915 Abandoned Logs #tt1915 @mcacgallery 
Jackson said that the Park was full of decoratif motifs. I said it was full of trees
The Tent #tt1915 
Snow Shadows 
Because of my poor knowledge of European art I was free to create mine own
In Seattle is where I started watercolours, designing and poring over art magazines.
I spent many happy days looking at tree stumps..
1917 Northern Lights. #tt1917 
August 5, 1877 I was born on a farm in Claremont, Ontario.
In my youth I had bouts of illness that kept me home from school.
The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses ~ GTR brochure
I would lose interest in painting in the summer. Uninteresting greens gave way to other pursuits. Fishing, women and dancing.
Art is deeper than steam, electricity, balloons and astronomy
1916 Winter in the Woods #tt1916 
I never had a good ability to paint the human figure. Perhaps, a blessing in the end.
In May 1915, after the sinking of the Lusitania, electric signs advertising German beer in Toronto were removed.
Jackson lent me his books on Impressionism.
I was quiet, modest and never understood by many people.
1916-17 Maple Saplings, October - canvas 