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  2. The Jack Pine - Wikipedia

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    The Jack Pine is a well-known oil painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson. A representation of the most broadly distributed pine species in Canada, [1] it is considered an iconic image of the country's landscape, [2] [3] and is one of the country's most widely recognized and reproduced artworks. The painting was completed in 1917, the year of ...

  3. The West Wind (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The West Wind is a 1917 painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson. An iconic image, the pine tree at its centre has been described as growing "in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees". [1] It was painted in the last year of Thomson's life and was one of his final works on canvas. The painting, and a sketch for the ...

  4. Tom Thomson - Wikipedia

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    The Jack Pine, Winter 1916–17. 127.9 × 139.8 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Black Spruce and Maple, Fall 1915.Sketch. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century.

  5. Jack pine - Wikipedia

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    The buds are blunt pointed, up to 15 mm long, reddish-brown, and resinous. On vigorous shoots, there is more than one cyclic component. The bark is thin, reddish-brown to gray in color in juvenile stages. As the tree matures it becomes dark brown and flaky. The wood is moderately hard and heavy, weak, light brown colour.

  6. Artistic development of Tom Thomson - Wikipedia

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    Tom Thomson photographed by T. H. Marten on Lake Scugog, 1910. Tom Thomson (1877–1917) was a Canadian painter from the beginning of the 20th century. Beginning from humble roots, his development as a career painter was meteoric, only pursuing it seriously in the final years of his life. He became one of the foremost figures in Canadian art ...

  7. Group of Seven (artists) - Wikipedia

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    Around 2001, Cree artist Kent Monkman began recreating a series of paintings by Tom Thomson and Group of Seven artists such as Lawren S. Harris, including Thomson’s The Jack Pine (1916–17) and Harris’s North Shore, Lake Superior (1926). To counter the absence of Indigenous people in these representations of the Canadian landscape, Monkman ...

  8. Death and legacy of Tom Thomson - Wikipedia

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    The death of Tom Thomson, the Canadian painter, occurred on 8 July 1917, on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. After Thomson drowned in the water, his upturned canoe was discovered later that afternoon and his body eight days later. Many theories regarding Thomson's death—including that he was ...

  9. Category:Paintings by Tom Thomson - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Paintings by Tom Thomson" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... The Jack Pine; N. Northern River (painting) S. Spring Ice; W.