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Last Notes npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Jackson was worried about my cubistical tendencies. He was also worried about the 'awful' things I did to fish npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1915 Sunset #tt1915 #upclose 1 of 4 https://i.imgur.com/AvotSyu.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Watch for the fire balloons, listen for the whistles. http://i.imgur.com/tU91aja.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Good art is understood with the mind's eye npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson In 1915 I went up to Owen Sound for a day to see my sister Minnie from out West. Did not see her for 8 years npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Do not mix the waters of friendship too much. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Dr MacCallum's enthusiasm for art far outstrips his knowledge of it. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1914 Spring, Algonquin #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/IYH9DTw.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson City folk believe that nature is quiet and serene. Not true. There is a thousand things happening every minute. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1916 Moose at Night ~ Oil on wood 20.9 x 26.9 cm National Gallery of Canada #tt1916 https://i.imgur.com/gkroIp2.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson There is beauty in the bare and broken branches of dead trees. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1916 First Snow #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/I2iYCfb.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson A good portrait can be peed into the snow. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson An artist has to paint as he sees the scene if it is going to be natural and to last. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Avoid companions that insist on claiming the stern seat in a canoe. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Jim MacDonald keeps dropping off books by Emerson and Thoreau. I keep threatening to put them in the wood stove. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1914 Daydreaming with Thoreau MacDonald #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/uphzBbk.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Jackson and I were so poor that we could only afford the occasional film at the cinema. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson In the summer of 1915 the Lismers moved in with the MacDonalds to farm for cash crops. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson A pen and ink of my Robbie Burns saying http://i.imgur.com/vghaS6w.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1914 Smoke Lake #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/Wz6UlvU.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I found the social atmosphere at Go Home Bay too much. I liked being alone npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Wind from the east, fish bite the least npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1907 Robbie Burns Blessing. Watercolour on paper 5 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. http://i.imgur.com/NJ32kEw.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1905 Blessing by Robbie Burns http://i.imgur.com/ILzhEkw.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson In a pinch, one part bacon grease and ten parts spruce gum can be used to repair a canoe npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson West Wind http://t.co/ta8xjRcfkA via @thenfb npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1914 Petawawa Gorges #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/Y76Fszk.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I love the northern woods. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Expression is a spiritual necessity: self-glorification is a lack of something to express. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Both Varley and I liked our drink and women npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Harris said that Camp Borden was rotten hole. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Understanding of the landscape requires sensitivity to its colours npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson In Toronto there is a woeful lack of knowledge of anything outside of Toronto. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1916 Summer Clouds #tt1916 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CHu0uEAUsAEaDD6.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I shared Studio One with Franklin Carmichael until he got married. Then I moved into the Shack. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1916 Birch by a Lake with Big Cloud #tt1916 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br3q5VkCMAILX9z.jpg npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson West Wind npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson It was at Grip where I had to face the divide between a commercial artist and one of the Northland npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson The essence of life is creative but our manner of living is not creative. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Harris was scared of usng bright colours. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson English art is a generation behind. Canadian art, a century. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Mississauga is considered the finest canoe trip in the world. #ttletter npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 2. Paintings are most striking when the subject is something that is otherwise viewed as useless or ugly. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Sometimes I paint as if my life depended upon it. Sometimes I fail. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1916 Snow and Rocks #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/Y9Tjsiy.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Jan 15, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: FOE TAKE VEDINA, ROUMANIA. LARGE JAPANESE WARSHIP LOST BY FIRE WITH 310 CASUALTIES. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I was a big fan of Charlie Chaplin. I had a few Chaplin stunts to dazzle my friends. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I never married. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1912 The Canoe #tt1912 @agotoronto http://i.imgur.com/3pk97PV.jpg npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson An artist's work is the artist's way of making another artist. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I learned from Jackson how to paint up canvas from sketches. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson The economy was in a slump in 1914. The fact that someone chose to be a full-time artist was viewed as frivolous npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Sketching should be considered the opposite of canvas painting npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1914 Pine Island #tt1914 http://i.imgur.com/2i39hUv.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Carmichael and I were opposed to the War but the spectre of enlistment grew more and more. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson An admiration of my sketch would prompt me to give it away. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson An artist has to paint as he sees the scene if it is going to be natural and to last npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Thank God, I have no visitors today. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson The gesso needs to be brought to the right temperature on the stove. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson On the farm in Leith, aside from the usual religious holidays, we didn't pay too much attention to the other observances. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I love the northern woods. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Is my duty to be in the trenches, killing or being killed in the name of love of country? npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I would see a thousand things in the wilderness that others missed. I knew where to find subjects. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson When Jackson enlisted and left Toronto in 1915, Frankin Carmichael moved into the Studio with me npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson 1916 Snow-covered Trees and a letter to @WinnieTrainor at #tt1916 http://i.imgur.com/Td9QNUV.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I dislike Government patronage. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Life is like running the rapids. The question is not 'Where will I stop? ' but 'Where will I go?' npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson In 1901 I went to Seattle and was a lift-boy in a hotel. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Dr MacCallum encouraged Jackson to have an art show at the Arts and Letters club in 1913. Critics were merciless. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson @mowatlodge - where the living is cheap and the sketching is good. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Finishing my letter to @WinnieTrainor . npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Carmichael and I were opposed to the War but the spectre of enlistment grew more and more. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson In 1915 I spent over $500 on paint. Almost enough to buy a new car. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Patriotic poetry reaches new depths http://i.imgur.com/1NGVTml.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson National Service Week Survey January 1917 http://t.co/BsonogKlUZ npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Harris, MacDonald, Beatty, Heming, Williamson, Jackson and me: first tenants of Studio Bldg. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson My potatoes are frozen. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson The door to the shack and the wood shed are frozen shut. The snow had drifted against the wall, melted, then frozen again npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I walk with Louise up University Avenue and over to Elm where the YWCA was. It's nice. She holds my arm,. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I made my first trip to Algonquin just after meeting Fred Varley npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Recruiters are everywhere at the station. Marching bands with signs 'Free Trip to Europe' npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson The difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts longer - Oscar Wilde. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Louise Julyan is on the train too. She wants to talk about painting. I don't. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson The thorns in Prime Minister Borden's flesh: Duke of Connaught and Sir Sam Hughes. Both gone by 1916 npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I never regarded my painting as important until I started working at Grip npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Jan 1, 1917 TORONTO GLOBE: NO GERMAN PEACE IS THE REPLY OF THE ALLIES npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I was as shy and cautious as a deer. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson No scene is ever the same the second time. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson There's nothing better than dragging along another painter with you in the wilderness. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I had something that nobody else could acquire - the north in my blood. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Jan 1, 1917 T.O World Editorial - 'Perhaps the people of the U.S. are more concerned about the profits of the war than the losses...' http://i.imgur.com/2K2xqrt.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I should be at Eaton's - open at 8:30am on New Year's Day http://i.imgur.com/Af9sR6o.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson National Service Week begins in earnest http://i.imgur.com/QdXEWhD.png npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Despite the quiet of the New Year's morn, I can feel the drums of war beating more loudly. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Fred Varley and I were extremely close chums until Jackson appeared on the scene npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I saw the challenges Fred Varley providing for his family. I didn't want that. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson I am not a philosophner, nor a mystic, just an inspired man struggling against heavy odds. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Being right isn't all there is to life. npub1pczukv7wx7l6mlpx54qxuzp0s32s7clejt04y4kl6z9vvgyz4x0qp4ehtq Tom Thomson Terse Travel Talk, trivia of the times, brought to you by the Grand Trunk Railway. http://i.imgur.com/hFYL1Bn.png
