CNHS - Tom Thomson 1877-1917 - Canoe Lake, Algonquin
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N 45° 32.112 W 078° 42.450
17T E 678993 N 5044963
One of Canada's most distinguished painters who influenced the Group of Seven with his distinctive style.
Waymark Code: WMQV1
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 09/18/2006
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Thomson was born at Claremont, Ontario County, but two months later moved with his parents to Leith where he lived until the age of twenty-one. After working in Toronto as a commercial artist until 1913, he supplemented his limited income from painting, and fulfilled his love for the Canadian wilderness by serving as a guide and fire ranger in Algonguin Park.
An exponent of a distinctive style of Canadian landscape painting, Thomson influenced the work of the "Group of Seven". Among his better known paintings are "West Wind", "Jack Pine", "Spring Ice" and "Northern River". His brief career ended tragically in July 1917 when he was drowned here in Canoe Lake.
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