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Jack Pine by Tom Thomson (1916), from http://national. ...
By the 1920s, a general reorientation of Canadian painting was underway, led by the Group of Seven, perhaps the best-recognized painters in Canadian history.
The paintings of their close friend Tom Thomson, who died before the Group of Seven was formed, were also frequently included in their exhibitions.
Stylistically, this painting is not a photograph-like illustration of the countryside.
Although he began painting and drawing at an early age, it was only in 1912, when Thomson was well into his thirties, that he began painting seriously.
Many of Thomson's major paintings, including The JackPine, Northern River, The West Wind and "The Northern River", began as sketches before being expanded into large oil paintings at Thomson's "studio"--an old utility shack with a wood-burning stove on the grounds of an artist's enclave in Rosedale, Toronto.
Although Thomson sold few of these paintings during his lifetime, they formed the basis of the posthumous exhibitions, including one at Wembley in London, that eventually brought international attention to his work.
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