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Tom Thomson

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

Those who go a-borrowing go a-sorrowing.

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

Jackson described a canvas of Harris as Tomato Soup.

I resented Dr MacCallum saying that Jackson had too m

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

1914 Mowat Lodge #tt1914

House in Owen Sound

1916-17 The Pointers

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

1902 Self Portrait A Day in Tacoma

I liked to get my birch panels from a veneer mill in South River. I ordered them by the hundred-lot.

Wind from the east, fish bite the least

Torment is part of the artist's job description

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

Dr MacCallum tried to find out animal-like shapes in our brushstrokes. It annoyed us.

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

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

Vulgarity, misapprehension and ignorance are old acquaintances

In 1915 I went to square dances in South River. I took the young lady from the post office.

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