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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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Torontonians relieved that it is not cold - just windy. image
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Jan 15, 1917 The Government is getting into everyone's business image
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Park Rule: Song birds and nest and eggs of all birds are protected at all times.
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Every man passes his life in search for friendship.
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The critics were frightened of my grasp of colour.
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Both Varley and I liked our drink and women
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I burnt much of my work but an impressive amount remains
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Jim MacDonald introduced me to Thoreau and Emerson
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Lismer once remarked, 'Toronto is a good place - to get out of!'
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I never studied art, but I briefly attended business college.
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Arthur Lismer was mesmerized by the Canadian landscape - so different from England
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Someone described me as an artist with limited funds and a drinking problem.
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Human figures were elusive to paint. I tried but eventually took it as a sign.
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In the sports pages, chess has equal billing to hockey and baseball. image
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I was fascinated by Jackson's construction of Terre Sauvage in late 1913
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Early in 1916 I made a trip to the north end of Algonquin Park. That's where I painted the West Wind.