Tom Thomson's Last Paddle

Tom Thomson's Last Paddle

Author: Larry McCloskey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2002-07-19

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1459702689

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While camping in Ontario’s Algonquin Park with their fathers, best friends Dani and Caitlin spend the night by themselves at an isolated site on Canoe Lake, rumoured to be the favourite spot of the famous Canadian painter Tom Thomson. After a sleepless night, the girls are stunned by the appearance of a ghostly canoe drifting towards the shore. Is this really the ghost of Tom Thomson, the creator of The Jack Pine and West Wind?


The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List

The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List

Author: Robin Esrock

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2016-02-06

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 145973050X

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Renowned travel writer and TV host Robin Esrock has explored every inch of Canada’s Prairies to craft the definitive Bucket List. From food and culture to nature and adrenaline rushes, Robin has the inspiration and information you’ll need to follow in his footsteps and discover everything Manitoba and Saskatchewan have to offer.


The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

Author: Gregory Klages

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2016-05-14

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1459731980

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A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend? Commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter, The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson offers an authoritative review of the historical record, as well as some theories you might not have thought of in a hundred years. Cultural historian Gregory Klages surveys first-hand testimony and archival records about Thomson’s tragic demise, attempting to sort fact from legend in the death of this Canadian icon.


Tom Thomson

Tom Thomson

Author: Tim Bouma

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781772571752

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A fictional journal covering the last few months of painter Tom Thomson's life. Includes a few letters written by Thomson.


Northern Light

Northern Light

Author: Roy MacGregor

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0307357392

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"The eccentric spinster Winnie Trainor was a fixture of Roy MacGregor's childhood in Huntsville, Ontario. She was considered too odd to be a truly romantic figure in the eyes of the town, but the locals knew that Canada's most famous painter had once been in love with her, and that she had never gotten over his untimely death. She kept some paintings he gave her in a six-quart basket she'd leave with the neighbours on her rare trips out of town, and in the summers she'd make the trip from her family cottage, where Thomson used to stay, on foot to the graveyard up the hill, where fans of the artist occasionally left bouquets. There she would clear away the flowers. After all, as far as anyone knew, he wasn't there: she had arranged at his family's request for him to be exhumed and moved to a cemetery near Owen Sound.


Defiant Spirits

Defiant Spirits

Author: Ross King

Publisher: D & M Publishers

Published: 2010-09-25

Total Pages: 3

ISBN-13: 1553658078

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Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working in an eclectic and sometimes controversial blend of modernist styles, they produced what an English critic celebrated in the 1920s as the “most vital group of paintings” of the 20th century. Inspired by Cézanne, Van Gogh and other modernist artists, they tried to interpret the Ontario landscape in light of the strategies of the international avant-garde. Based after 1914 in the purpose-built Studio Building for Canadian Art, the young artists embarked on what Lawren Harris called “an all-engrossing adventure”: travelling north into the anadian Shield and forging a style of painting appropriate to what they regarded as the unique features of Canada’s northern landscape. Rigorously researched and drawn from archival documents and letters, Defiant Spirits constitutes a “group biography,” reconstructing the men’s aspirations, frustrations and achievements. It details not only the lives of Tom Thomson and the members of the Group of Seven but also the political and social history of Canada


In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven

In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven

Author: Jim Waddington

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780864929082

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Includes reproductions of original paintings by the Group of Seven and contemporary photographs of the locations where the original works were created.


Painting Canada

Painting Canada

Author: Ian A. C. Dejardin

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 2012-06-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780856676864

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Published to accompany exhibition organized by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum.