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Tom Thomson (1877-1917)
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Canadian Painter, who inspired the landscapists known as the Group of Seven. He was born in Claremont, Ontario and died at Canoe Lake, Ontario. Thomson grew up in a large western Ontario farm family and in his twenties tried a variety of jobs. He later moved to Seattle, Washington, where he worked as a photo-engraver before moving to Toronto in 1905 where he eventually took a job at the design firm Grip Limited where he met J.E.H. MacDonald, with whom he started going on weekend sketching trips to nearby lakes. He made his first trip to Algonquin Park, Ontario, in the summer of 1912. He spent the summers from 1913 to 1917 as a ranger in Algonquin Park where he made numerous sketches of the rugged northern landscapes. He was active as a painter for only four years before a somewhat mysterious death, which was officially considered an accident. Although a close friend of several of the members of the Group of Seven, he was not a member, since he died three years before the group was officially formed. He used the sketches as models for the canvases that he painted during the winter. Thomson's works broke with the conventional landscape style, and were vividly realistic, and yet almost abstract in their vivid color and manipulation of texture. His most famous painting is probably Jack Pine (1917, National Gallery, Ottawa): [Adapted from Well Known Canadians]
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