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Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
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Tom Thomson 0 years ago
A corset has two functions: to keep women in, and to keep men out.
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Tom Thomson 0 years ago
As artists, we were all influenced by the Art Nouveau movement: lines, loops and whorls.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Invite an artist over for a hot dinner, a good conversation, a stiff drink, and buy his art so he can pay his rent.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Florence and I go for supper at the Busy Bee Restaurant on Yonge St.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
I never regarded my painting as important until I started working at Grip
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Florence knows about @WinnieTrainor. She's seen the letters and cards.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
An old hat, an old suit, and a fishing rod is all I need in the wilderness.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
If you intend your art to show that you are better than others then you have failed.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
In my youth I had bouts of illness that kept me home from school.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
The stronger light is lifting my spirits. Spring is not far away. It's making me yearn to up North as soon as I can.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
As I am now, so you shall be. Prepare thyself to follow me. ttlastspring.com image
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
I am generous to the point of being careless about money.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
I never studied art, but I briefly attended business college.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
I was frequently prey to the doubts of being an artist, but I loved the life.
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
My sense of colour came from my Seattle days where I saw the birth of the coloured images on the printed page
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Tom Thomson 1 year ago
I helped my Uncle Brodie, a well-known naturalist, gather specimens. He gave me the eye for the details of nature.