Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.
Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
I never truly realized what I had, but others did.
Canoes are too small to accommodate clashing personalities
You can judge a moose by the size of its antlers. Too bad there's no similar rule for judging men.
I didnt analyze. I worked from my inside feeling and let that govern my work.
1914 The Last Fence #tt1914 
1916 Spring #tt1916 
Americans think we are like the British. The British think we are like Americans
1916 Autumn #tt1916 
You work with your mind not with your hands
I was more than once drunk in the Studio Building.
MacDonald made his first visit to Algonquin in March 1914. Jackson had been there a month.
1916 Poplars by the Lake #tt1916 
Annie Fraser always thought I had something going for Daphne Crombie
I prefer a more direct handling of colour than focus on meticulous detail and perspective.
Harris was attracted to the occult
1915 Hillside ttlastspring.com #tt1915 
This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter
My blue palette: Cerulean, Cobalt, Prussian, and Ultramarine