All The Calm And Calamity / The Quiet Fall

Some Group of Seven treats ...

Iconic work by the legendary Tom Thomson (1877 - 1917) from the exhibition All The Calm And Calamity currently at Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound:

Also on view are impressive work by F. H. Varley (1881 - 1969):

and A. Y. Jackson (1882 - 1974):

From the exhibition The Quiet Fall currently at Varley Art Gallery, Markham ...

A. J. Casson (1898 - 1992):

F. H. Varley:

Pink birches vs golden autumn

Tom Thomson at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto 2020:

Thomson at the AGO, Toronto 2016:

Thomson vs MacDonald

Some traditional Canadian landscapes at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto 2016 ...

Tom Thomson:

J.E.H. MacDonald:

Tom Thomson's Last Spring

Back in Toronto last night ...

I've been following this on twitter recently: Tom Thomson's Last Spring is a blog/journal witnessing the last days of the Canadian legendary painter Tom Thomson leading to his mysterious death in the spring of 1917 as would have been documented by the painter himself.  The accompanying tweets include countless images of Thomson's paintings alongside "live tweets" from 99 years ago.

Images: Thomson at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto 2014.

Evening skies

Tom Thomson at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto 2014:

Emil Nolde at Museum Ludwig, Köln 2014:

Thomson's trees

His prolific but short-lived career has sparked the formation of the Group of Seven and is still influencing new generations of Canadian artists today.  Trees by the legendary Tom Thomson at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto 2014:

... while I was reading Margaret Atwood's Death By Landscape.