Thomson, Tom (1877-1917), was a Canadian landscape painter. He was associated with Lawren Harris, Alexander Y. Jackson, J. E. H. MacDonald, and the other Canadian artists who formed the “Group of Seven” after 1920.
From 1914 to 1917, Thomson spent much of each year in Algonquin Park, Ontario, where he sketched the landscape while working as a fire ranger and guide. During the winters, Thomson lived in Toronto and painted major canvases from his sketches. His paintings are brilliant expressions of the unspoiled beauty of the Canadian wilderness. Thomson’s paintings The West Wind (now in the Art Gallery of Ontario) and The Jack Pine (now in the National Gallery of Canada) have become treasured works of Canadian art.
Thomas John Thomson was born on Aug. 4, 1877, near Owen Sound, Ontario. He drowned at Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park on July 8, 1917.
