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Thread #130560 Message #2941646
Posted By: Emma B
08-Jul-10 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
Subject: RE: BS:Facebook - Brilliant Idea for Trees!
On July 8th 1917, Thomas John 'Tom' Thomson (b.1877) drowns in Canoe Lake in his beloved Algonquin Park; a friend and associate of the Group of Seven landscape painters, his death has never been explained.
Two of his best known canvases are 'The West Wind' - described as growing "in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees" - and 'The Jack Pine' both iconic images of trees
As a tribute to a great artist and for all those who love wild woods