Friday, October 17, 2025

One of my favourite Canadian art heroes

Tom Thomson
from a Wikipedia photo
sketch
marker on journal paper
5 x 8 inches
Barbara Muir © 2023
(Unfortunately some of the marks from the
previous journal page come through.)

Tom Thomson is right up there as one of my top Canadian art 
heroes. I love his work, and I love this Inktober style drawing even
with its flaws of having the journal post showing through the
drawing.  Here's what I said about him in a past post:

"When I visit the Art Gallery of Ontario, I always spend 
some time sitting in the room full of Tom Thomson's work. 
He was a fabulous landscape artist. Sadly he died at 39 years old by drowning. There is still all sorts of speculation about how he
-- a very accomplished 
canoeist -- drowned, and hints of murder,
or suicide, but nothing 
has ever been proven. He died in 1917."

His work is incredibly inspiring. And he created so much beauty
in his short life.

Happy weekend.  If you don't know Tom Thomson's work --
check it out.

Have a loving your life day. 

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