Tom Thomson (1877-1917)

Aliases: Thomas Thomson; Tom John Thomson

Professions: Landscape painter

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  "Thomas John (Tom) Thomson 1877 - 1917 Canadian

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  THOMAS (TOM) JOHN THOMSON (1877-1917)

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  "Thomas John (Tom) Thomson 1877 - 1917 Canadian

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  Thomas John (Tom) Thomson 1877 - 1917 Canadian oil

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Tom Thomson Biography

(b Claremont, Ont., 4 Aug 1877; d Canoe Lake, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ont., 8 July 1917). Canadian painter. From 1901 to 1904 he worked as an engraver in Seattle, first for the photo-engraving firm Maring and Ladd for about a year and then for the Seattle Engraving Company. In 1904 he moved to Toronto, where he worked as a designer and illustrator. On joining the company Grip Limited in 1907 he met a number of the painters who later banded together as the GROUP OF SEVEN. Encouraged by J. E. H. MacDonald and others, he began to paint seriously. In 1912 he produced a series of small oil sketches in Algonquin Provincial Park, a wilderness park established in 1893. His first large painting, Northern Lake (Toronto, A.G. Ont.), executed in Toronto in 1912–13 on the basis of these sketches, was acquired for the Ontario Government. Over the next four years he spent a great deal of time in the Park, painting during all seasons. He supported himself there by working as a fire ranger and guide, working in Toronto during the winters. In 1914 he and A. Y. Jackson, who influenced him as a teacher, shared a studio and painted together in Algonquin Park. The discoveries he made about the use of intense colour during this trip were reflected in Northern River (oil on canvas, 1.15*1.02 m, 1914–15; Ottawa, N.G.), a major painting acquired for the national collection in 1915.

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