Tom Thomson

Tom Thomson, the great painter of Ontario North woods landscapes, was one of the driving and catalyzing forces behind the formation of the Group of Seven - an association not formally created and named 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 moved to Algonquin Park to paint. 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 on the lakeshore, with a four-inch bruise across the temple. He was forty years old, engaged to be married, and at the height of his powers as a painter. The cause of death is now, as it was then, an unsolved mystery.

Tom Thomson Images:
Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay
Jack Pine
Northern River
Pine Island, Georgian Bay
West Wind
Woodland Waterfall