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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
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I was accused of going to the Dufond Indian Farm whenever I wanted to do the Rain Dance.
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October 1914, Jackson met up with in the Park. That fall, the colours were their finest.
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Civilization is a disease, barbarianism is a restoration of health - Julius Meier-Graefe 1908
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I spent many hours standing behind Jackson, puffing my pipe.
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Jackson gladly shared with me the finer points of rendering the North of canvas.
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Fred Varley tried to set me up with wife's half-sister. I didn't appreciate that.
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Shannon Fraser is no stranger to self-aggrandizement
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Jackson had the greater initiative and was as indifferent to material ambition as I was
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I was a diligent and talented designer but it was my colleagues who convinced me to become a serious painter.
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My sense of colour came from my Seattle days where I saw the birth of the coloured images on the printed page
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Jim MacDonald had the top floor in the Studio Building but due to illness in 1917 moved to ground floor
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I produce my work for my own satisfaction, not for its effect on the crowd.
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One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.
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The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses ~ GTR brochure