Details

Subject(s)

• Thomson, Tom 1877-1917—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Landscape painting, Canadian—20th century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Plein air painting—Canada—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Ontario—In art—Exhibitions [Browse]

Editor

• Dejardin, Ian A. C., 1955- [Browse]
• Milroy, Sarah [Browse]

• Dejardin, Ian A. C., 1955- [Browse]
• Milroy, Sarah [Browse]
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection [Browse]

Host institution

McMichael Canadian Art Collection [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Contains

Thomson, Tom, 1877-1917. Paintings. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

"Tom Thomson is the undisputed master of the oil sketch. A towering figure in the history of Canadian art after just five years of professional practise, he stunned audiences with his fresh and avant-garde experimentation, evoking his experience of the Ontario landscape in dozens of dazzling miniature masterworks. Thomson's death in 1917 triggered the formation of the Group of Seven and the ascendancy of landscape painting as a national preoccupation. Tom Thomson: North Star is the first book to focus on Thomson's small-scale sketches and brings together a variety of voices to interpret his legacy with fresh eyes. Among them are the McMichael's Executive Director Ian A.C. Dejardin, historian Douglas Hunter, and Algonquin knowledge-keeper and cultural activist Christine McRae Luckasavitch, as well as a number of contemporary Canadian artists from all parts of Canada. The essays in combination with more than 150 reproductions of Thomson's painted sketches cast new light on the enduring influence of one of Canada's most iconic artists."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

This volume accompanies the exhibition Tom Thomson: North Star, held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from June 24, 2023 to January 14, 2024, and travelling on to other venues.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Issuing body

Co-published by McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

Other title(s)

North star

ISBN

• 9781773103204 ((hardcover))
• 1773103202

OCLC

1353288727

RCP

C - S

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