Tom Thomson

Nationality: Canadian

Training: Central Ontario School of Art and Design

Group: forerunner of Group of Seven; 20th century

Peers: J.E.H. MacDonald; Arthur Lismer; Franklin Carmichael; Frank Johnston; Frederick Varley; A.Y. Jackson; Lawren Harris

Provenance: donated by Dr. F. and Dr. M. Bylsma in 1991; Miss Violet Trainor; Walter Klinkhoff Gallery; Art Emporium, Vancouver

Subject: landscape; land based nationalism

Legacy: Thomson's use of paint and depiction of the landscape has influenced landscape painters since his death




Other Works in the Vancouver Art Gallery Collection

Tom Thomson
Nocturne, 1914
oil on panel
Gift in Memory of Robert A. de Lotbiniere Harwood by his Friends
VAG 52.8

Tom Thomson
The Waterfall
oil on panel
Gift in Memory of Robert A. de Lotbiniere Harwood by his Friends
VAG 52.9