First published in 1977 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Canadian artist Tom Thomson, "Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm" is a collection of works that pays tribute to his legendary and mysterious life, famously followed by his untimely death in a canoeing accident.
Now reprinted with a new binding, this reprint includes more than 25 previously unpublished paintings and a new introduction. Co-authors Canadian painter Harold Towne and art historian David P. Silcox were early associates of Thomson and the Group of Seven, and they recognize him as a masterful artist without cultural pretensions. Thomson's masterpieces are faithfully reproduced, with over 80 of his famous oil sketches presented at the same size as the originals.
[Title] Tom Thomson: TheSilence and the Storm [Publisher: Publisher] Collins [Publication date: Published] 2017 [Number of pages: Pages] 272 pages [Size] Approx. 27.1 x 33.5 x 2.5 cm [Format] Hardcover [Language] English [Title reading] - [Authors/Editors] David Silcox/Author, Harold Town/Author [ISBN] 1443442348 [Condition] Used Good [Accessories: Attachment] None [Books featured] None [Exhibition] None
Tom Thomson (1877 - 1917, Canada) Thomas John Thomson, known as Tom Thomson, was a Canadian illustrator and painter who was part of a group of Canadian landscape painters that would go on to form the Group of Seven, but died in an accident in 1917 at the age of 39.
