Autumn Foliage

Throughout his career, Canadian landscape painter and Group of Seven contemporary Tom Thomson produced more than 400 small oil paintings. They are found on wood panels, canvas board, plywood, and cigar-box lids in the plein-air style. These were spontaneous, quickly executed sketches that became, for him, like drawings—the most immediate and intimate expression of an idea, a thought, an emotion, or a sensation. Based on his observations of a host of phenomena—sunsets, thunderstorms, and the northern lights—the works form a unique visual diary. His paintings use broad brush strokes and a liberal application of paint to capture the beauty and color of the Ontario landscape. Thomson’s accidental death at 39 by drowning came shortly before the founding of the Group of Seven and is seen as a tragedy for Canadian art.

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