Through you have nothing to do, you have hardly any time to spare when you are alone in the woods
Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
City Council doesn't want a subway - too expensive. 
Feb 17, 1917 Toronto World 
My sense of colour came from my Seattle days where I saw the birth of the coloured images on the printed page
In 1901 I went to Seattle and was a lift-boy in a hotel.
1916 Dappled Thicket #tt1916 
A man who lives is prepared to die at any time #ttletter
In 1908 I joined the engraving house, Grip Ltd - it was my graphic arts university.
Jackson and myself have been making quite a few sketches lately and I will send a bunch down with Lismer #ttletter
I liked to get my birch panels from a veneer mill in South River. I ordered them by the hundred-lot.
1915-16 Opulent October 
Frank Johnston understood the meaning I was trying to convey.
For the landscape to paint, I was indebted to the lumber companies; dams, log shutes, camp clearings
I have self-doubts , but I am grateful for Dr. MacCallum's unwavering faith in my work.
I was keenly interested in the work of Van Gogh
1915 Backwater http://t.co/J5EY9FBoGK #tt1915 
In the summer the greens are too intense and undifferentiated to interest me.
Early in 1916 I made a trip to the north end of Algonquin Park. That's where I painted the West Wind.
My commercial designs 
Lawren Harris taught me the power and vitality from the German Expressionists