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(1877-1917)
Tom Thomson, the great painter of Northern Ontario
landscapes, was one of the catalyzing forces behind the
formation of the Group of Seven - an association not
formally created until three years after Thomson's death. He
was born in Claremont, Ontario on August 5, 1877. He worked
as a commercial artist in Seattle and in Toronto until 1913
when he left Rous & Mann to become a full-time painter
and spend as much time as possible in Algonquin Park.
Thomson did not live to see the success of his vision. On
July 8, 1917, his canoe was found capsized in Algonquin
Park. His body was discovered eight days later. He was forty
years old and at the height of his powers as a painter. The
cause of death is now, as it was then, an unsolved mystery. |
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