Artist: Tom Thomson (1877 - 1917)
Nationality: Canadian
Movement: Modern Canadian School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Born in Ontario, Thomas John Thomson began working as a book and periodical illustrator at Grip Limited in Toronto. During this period, he was influenced by fellow Canadian artists and co-workers, J.E.H. MacDonald and Art Lismer to take up painting as a full time career. Instead of becoming a war artist in World War I like many of the painters of that time, Thomson stayed behind in Canada. However, he died tragically in 1917 when he drowned in Canoe Lake near Wapomeo Island. Thomson’s untimely death cut short an influential and promising career but also inspired his contemporaries to continue building the foundations of Modern Canadian art.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (53)
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Edward Francis Burney James Thomson, frontispiece in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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Paysage de Londres (La Tamise) (1937) by THOMSON A
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Gilbert Stuart - Mrs. John Thomson Mason c. 1803-1805 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Joseph Thomson? St. John's Vision 1797
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Kronheim & Co. The Poetical Works of James Thomson (Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1869) book with 6 color lithographs and lithographed title page 1869
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Francis Dodd, R.A. Portrait of Sir J.J. Thomson Etching 1925
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Bartolomeo Passerotti, Italian (Bolognese), 1529-1592 Portrait of a Man Playing a Lute 1576 Oil on
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La Reine Marie-Amélie (1ère moitié 19e siècle) by THOMSON James (graveur) ; HERSENT Louis (peintre, d'après)
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William Hamilton Illustration for Autumn, opposite page 143 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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William Hamilton Illustration for the Hymn, opposite page 257 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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William Hamilton Illustration for Summer, opposite page 117 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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William Hamilton Illustration for Spring, opposite page 3 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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James Thomson Historical Illustration 18th - 19th century
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James Thomson Historical Illustration 18th - 19th century
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William Hamilton The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) book with 7 engravings 1802
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Study of a Seated Man, Hugh Thomson (England, Coleraine, Londonderry, 1860 - 1920) , 1897, Pencil
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Henry Wolf Portrait of Miss Thomson 19th - 20th century
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James Thomson Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby 18th - 19th century
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The Introduction, Hugh Thomson (England, Coleraine, Londonderry, 1860 - 1920) , 1903, Black ink and watercolor
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Conversation Piece, Hugh Thomson (England, Coleraine, Londonderry, 1860 - 1920) , 1897, Black ink and watercolor
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Autoportrait (1807) by PLIMER Andrew
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Henry Thomson (Thompson) Shakespeare - Midsummer Night's Dream - Act III, Scene I. Mezzotint and etching 18th - 19th century
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LE COLONEL ANSTRUTHER-THOMSON (1893) by LORIMER John Henry
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Jeune femme nue endormie près d'un arbre (4e quart 18e siècle ; 1ère moitié 19e siècle) by NORMAND Charles Pierre Joseph (attribué à) ; THOMSON (inspiré par)
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Marie-Amélie en exil (1849) by DUBUFE Edouard ; THOMSON G (graveur)
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Conversation Piece (recto); Study of a Seated Man (verso), Hugh Thomson (England, Coleraine, Londonderry, 1860 - 1920) , 1897, Black ink and watercolor (recto); pencil (verso)
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli Illustration for Winter, opposite page 208 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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Johann Heinrich Fuseli Illustration for Summer, opposite page 59 in the book The Seasons by James Thomson (London: F. J. du Roverayä, 1802) engraving 1801
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James Thomson Stipple or Chalk (portrait of a woman painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence) after page 62,eighth illustration in the book The Art of Engraving by T. H. Fielding (London: Ackermann & Co., 1844) stipple engraving 1844
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© 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ DACS, London ; William Thomson, Canadian, 1926
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John Thomson - Street Doctor 1876-1877 woodburytype The Royal Photographic Society British
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George Thomson - Connecticut Coast 1914 oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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George Cruikshank End page vignette to Joe Thomson page 96 in the book Greenwich Hospital , A Series of Naval Sketches Descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War*s Man by an Old Sailor (London: James Robins and Co., 1826 & Dublin: Joseph Robins, Jun
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John Thomson, Scottish, 1837-1921 Halfpenny Ices 1877 Woodburytype Image/Sheet: 11.7 x 9 cm (4 5/8
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John Thomson, Scottish, 1837-1921 Sufferers from the Floods 1877 Woodburytype Image/Sheet: 11.6 x 9 cm
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Sir Henry Raeburn, British, 1756-1823 Robert Hay Oil on canvas 77.5 x 64.1 cm (30
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Marked by Thomas Moore (II), first mark entered 1750 Tankard London, England England, (London), 1758-59
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John Thomson, Scottish, 1837-1921 The Cheap Fish of St. Giles"s from "Street Life in London,"
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John Thomson, Scottish, 1837-1921 Covent Garden Flower Women from "Street Life in London," 1877-1877 Woodburytype
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Unidentified artist, Greek or Rumanian, 17th or 18th century Virgin and Child with Saint Roch
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Portrait de Marie-Amélie, reine des français (2e moitié 19e siècle) by THOMSON James ; HERSENT Louis (inspiré par)
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Miss Thomson of St. Andrews
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Worktable United States, Massachusetts, (Probably Salem), 1800-10 Mahogany, pine 74.3 x 58.7 x 44.9 cm
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The Palace of Aurora, 1902 Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)Oil on canvas; 18 1/8 x 15
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Figure of an Ichneumon Egyptian Late Period, 664–332 B.C. Egypt Bronze Height x width x
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Tabatière rectangulaire avec miniature représentant Napoléon Bonaparte premier Consul (1805 vers) by ISABEY Jean-Baptiste ; MARGUERITE Bernard Armand (orfèvre)
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Fécamp, bord de mer (1881) by MONET Claude
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Kantharos Roman Late Augustan or Tiberian Period About A.D. 1 to 30 Ceramic, thin-walled ware
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La Toilette (1882) by GAUGUIN Paul
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Les Actes des Apôtres : La pêche miraculeuse (1640) by RAPHAEL (dit), SANTI Raffaello (auteur du modèle) ; manufacture de Mortlake (manufacture)
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Les Actes des Apôtres : Le Bon Pasteur ou La mission de saint Pierre (1640) by RAPHAEL (dit), SANTI Raffaello (auteur du modèle) ; manufacture de Mortlake (manufacture)
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Bouleau mort, carrefour de l'Epine, forêt de Fontainebleau (1866) by MILLET Jean-François
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Portrait de Madeleine Bernard (1888) by GAUGUIN Paul

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (27)
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Vancouver Art Gallery: Tom Thomson: A Canadian Legend
Tom Thomson defined a quintessentially Canadian landscape. His vision of the land had an enormous impact on early modernism and a fundamental influence on the artists who subsequently formed the Group of Seven. His main subject matter, the north...
Hoxton Distillery: XXX GIRLFRIENDS: Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson - A Relationship with the Sublime
The glut of xxxxxx revolutionary spectators, lurking around galleries enthusing after art as a 'sign of history' xxxxxx stapled onto their terror of anonymity xxxxxx will be bereft of the illusional comfort of xxxxxxx commensurability in the ap...
Hoxton Distillery: The Poster Show +1
The Artists are: Neil Chapman and Steve Claydon
Tobias Collier
John Hanson and Richard Paul
Carol Ho
Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson
Michelle Barber
Steve Colson
Jens Kabisch
Mark Pearson

The Poster The S...
Spanish Absinthe, Absenta.com: Cab Gallery
Artists Participants include Peter Liversidge (1999 John Moores nominee), Bob and Roberta Smith, Steve Bunn (winner of The Battersea Outdoor Sculpture Prize 1999; winner of Madame Tussauds Prize, RCA Best Graduate 1999), Abigail Cohen, Jemi...
City Gallery Wellington: Conversation Pieces: Collaborative Works
Conversation Pieces features: Gavin Chilcott & Ian Wedde; Wayne Youle & Jo Randerson; Richard Reddaway & Sam Kebbell; Claire Martin & Luke Savage; Saffronn Te Ratana & Ngataiharuru Taepa; Raewyn Atkinson & Catherine Griffiths & Jenny Bornholdt;...
Tate Britian: Art Now: Art and Money Online
Most Internet art is difficult to accommodate within a gallery show, as it requires interaction with a single viewer, and is suited to display only on a small scale. Increasingly, however, artists are using the Internet in ...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: The Fine Art of Photography
Among the twentieth-century work on show will be photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brant, Roger Fenton, Eve Arnold and Annie Leibovitz. ...
Robert McDougall Art Gallery: Sculpture in the Gardens: Bing Dawe, Enid Eiriksson and Kazu Nakagawa
First held in 1993, this event is designed to raise the profile of the best of New Zealand's contemporary sculpture. Previous participants have i...
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery: Bill Burns: Safety Gear for Small Animals
Safety Gear for Small Animals is about animal rescue, relocation and rehabilitation. It presents a survey of Burns' work over the past 10 years. Currently touring across Canada and into the United States, the exhibition opens June 25 at the Tom Th...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Unpacking Design: Matali Crasset
Complementing these large obje cts will be a selection of Matali’s furniture and product designs. This will be the first exhibition of Matali Crasset’s work in the UK and is part of the French Designers Days festival organised by the French Cultur...
National Art School: Alumination 2002: Work by NAS Alumni
Peter Berner (renowned television presenter of the ABC’s BackBerner and radio personality) will be opening the exhibition on Tuesday 1 October. Peter is himself a 1996 Alumnus of the National Art School, and retains his passion for art and drawing...
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery: Landmark: Paintings by John Abrams and Robert Houle
John Abrams and Robert Houle have built their artistic practices around painting aspects of the Canadian imagination. For each, the landscape of Canada has been defined through political association. Issues of identity are solidified through place...
Susan Hobbs Gallery: Kevin Yates : New Cast Bronze Sculptures
Kevin Yates was born in Owen Sound, Ontario in 1974. He has had solo exhibitions at Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery (Owen Sound), Artspeak (Vancouver), YYZ Artists‚ Outlet (Toronto), ODD Gallery (Dawson City, ...
Oakville Galleries: Susanna Heller: City Watch
“I never learned so much about blue until after 9/11. It was so hard to work on capturing the perfect deep blue sky from the fall of 2001... You’re painting the oppressiveness... You’re painting deep space.” -- Susanna Heller In 1998, New Yo...
Art Gallery of Mississauga: Kai Chan: land(e)scape
Gleaned materials such as branches, sticks, toothpicks, buttons and string become sophisticated sculptural forms in the hands of artist Kai Chan. His complex works visually reference the arts and crafts movement while loosening the boundary betwee...
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: Nell Tenhaaf: Fit/Unfit
Nell Tenhaaf has exhibited her art extensively across Canada, the United States, and Europe. She obtained a MFA from Concordia University and she currently holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Interdisciplinary Studio at York...
Site Gallery: Haunted Media: New Media and Supernatural Phenomena
The development of telegraph and wireless allowed users to hear voices from the ether and had the power to disperse body & consciousness across the universe in the same way that the internet is seen to have done more recently, creating a space for...
Visual Arts League at Johnson Med. School-Univ. of Med. and Dent.: 3 Americas! Brings Together Works from the Western Hemisphere
We will get a fresh concept of America by looking at these faces and figures from all over the great strip of ...
National Gallery of Scotland: Rosslyn: Country Of Painter And Poet

For over 200 years, Rosslyn has attracted countless artists, writers and antiquaries and by the nineteenth century the Castle, Chapel and Glen were placed firmly on the tourist map of Scotland. The chapel was built in 1446 by Sir William St....
University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach: By Hand: Pattern, Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing
In contrast to a recent surge of art made with the aid of technology, the drawings included in By Hand were all created with simple, hand-held tools. This exhibition brings together work that resists the ever-present temptation to generate images ...
Waiheke Community Art Gallery: 'Sound Pool' Wins NZ$10,000 Sculpture Award at Sculpture on the Gulf
New Zealand’s premier sculpture award has gone to 31-year-old installation artist Lyndal Jefferies. Jefferies' piece The Cymatic Field - a vibrating 'sound pool' on a 3.5m sq tank of polished stainless steel - won the Waiheke artist $10,000. ...
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery: Terry Urbahn: The Sacred Hart
Urbahn’s video installation reunites a handful of White Hart protagonists for one night of remembrance and celebration. The video pans a laden table, tracing characters and plots as the guests revisit old lives, rituals, memories and what a commun...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 01.01.01: Art in Technological Times
Organized by four of SFMOMA’s curatorial departments—Painting and Sculpture, Architecture and Design, Media Arts and Education—01.01.01 will chart recent work by some 35 artists, architects and designers who are responding to a world altered by th...
Sam Fogg: Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture, 1100-1520
The collecting of Medieval art is enjoying something of a renaissance. The past five years have seen a series of highly acclaimed exhibitions including most recently, Medieval Ivories from the Thomson Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art,...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Expanding Horizons : Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscape 1860-1918
"The revolutionary approach of Expanding Horizons makes a major contribution to the understanding of landscape art in North America," said Kathleen Bartels director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Gallery is proud to offer visitors the first op...
Art Institute of Chicago: Exhibition of Monumental Photographic Works by Jeff Wall Opens Tonight
Jeff Wall, traveling to the Art Institute from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, features 41 works, measuring on average 6 feet by 8 feet. Their size and scale are testaments to the ambitions of permanence Wall brings to photography-as grand a...
Gallery 96: One Touch of Nature: An Environmental Artwork Exhibition
Some artists have created new work for the site at Stratford, while others adapted previous pieces for this project. The creation, installation and changes (if any!) of these artworks throughout the duration of this project will be documented...

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Tom Thomson - 7 June 2002 - 8 September 2002
Tom Thomson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fine art of Tom Thomson - Group of Seven Artist. Oil paintings, landscapes, abstracts and original art.
Amazon.co.uk: Books: Tom Thomson

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