The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson

The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson
Author: George A. Walker
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1123408556

In master engraver George A. Walker’s newest work, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson, the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of the iconic Canadian artist are explored through some one hundred and nine wood engravings, creating a work that eulogizes not only the artist himself, but the struggle of the artist’s attempt to express himself while constrained by society, the reality of the moment, and mortality.

Who Killed Tom Thomson?

Who Killed Tom Thomson?
Author: John Little
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1510733418

Tom Thomson was Canada's Vincent van Gogh. He painted for a period of five years before meeting his untimely death in a remote wilderness lake in July 1917. He was buried in an unofficial grave close to the lake where his body was found. About eight hours after he was buried, the coroner arrived but never examined the body and ruled his death accidental due to drowning. A day and a half later, Thomson's family hired an undertaker to exhume the body and move it to the family plot about 100 miles away. This undertaker refused all help, and only worked at night. In 1956, John Little's father and three other men, influenced by the story of an old park ranger who never believed Thomson's body was moved by the undertaker, dug up what was supposed to be the original, empty grave. To their surprise, the grave still contained a body, and the skull revealed a head wound that matched the same location noted by the men who pulled his corpse from the water in 1917. The finding sent shockwaves across the nation and began a mystery that continues to this day. In Who Killed Tom Thomson? John Little continues the sixty-year relationship his family has had with Tom Thomson and his fate by teaming up with two high-ranking Ontario provincial police homicide detectives. For the first time, they provide a forensic scientific opinion as to how Thomson met his death, and where his body is buried. Little draws upon his father's research, plus recently released archival material, as well as his own thirty-year investigation. He and his colleagues prove that Thomson was murdered, and set forth two persons of interest who may have killed Tom Thomson.

The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List

The Great Canadian Prairies Bucket List
Author: Robin Esrock
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2016-02-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 145973050X

Renowned travel writer and TV host Robin Esrock has explored every inch of Canada’s Prairies to craft the definitive Bucket List. From food and culture to nature and adrenaline rushes, Robin has the inspiration and information you’ll need to follow in his footsteps and discover everything Manitoba and Saskatchewan have to offer.

The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson

The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson
Author: Gregory Klages
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-05-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459731980

A National Post Bestseller! How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was landscape painter Tom Thomson shot by poachers, or by a German-American draft dodger? Did a blow from a canoe paddle knock him unconscious and into the water? Was he fatally injured in a drunken fight? Did he end his life out of fear of being forced to marry his pregnant girlfriend? Commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of the renowned Canadian landscape painter, The Many Deaths of Tom Thomson offers an authoritative review of the historical record, as well as some theories you might not have thought of in a hundred years. Cultural historian Gregory Klages surveys first-hand testimony and archival records about Thomson’s tragic demise, attempting to sort fact from legend in the death of this Canadian icon.

Northern Light

Northern Light
Author: Roy MacGregor
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010
Genre: Painters
ISBN: 0307357392

"The eccentric spinster Winnie Trainor was a fixture of Roy MacGregor's childhood in Huntsville, Ontario. She was considered too odd to be a truly romantic figure in the eyes of the town, but the locals knew that Canada's most famous painter had once been in love with her, and that she had never gotten over his untimely death. She kept some paintings he gave her in a six-quart basket she'd leave with the neighbours on her rare trips out of town, and in the summers she'd make the trip from her family cottage, where Thomson used to stay, on foot to the graveyard up the hill, where fans of the artist occasionally left bouquets. There she would clear away the flowers. After all, as far as anyone knew, he wasn't there: she had arranged at his family's request for him to be exhumed and moved to a cemetery near Owen Sound.

Tom Thomson's Last Paddle

Tom Thomson's Last Paddle
Author: Larry McCloskey
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2002-07-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780888784308

Two preteens, Dani and Caitlin, set out to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, while on a camping trip with their fathers in the Ontario wilderness.

Tom Thomson

Tom Thomson
Author: Jim Poling Sr.
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 145950495X

"An overturned canoe. A body recovered. Presumably Thomson drowned. That should have been the end of it. It was only the beginning." This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: biography, history, the visual arts or true-life mysteries. Tom Thomson is perhaps Canada's most famous artist. His short and glorious career was abruptly and brutally ended on July 8, 1917. Since the recovery of Thomson's body, theories as to the cause of his death -- accident? murder? -- have preoccupied sleuths for close to 100 years.

Painting Canada

Painting Canada
Author: Ian A. C. Dejardin
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780856676864

Published to accompany exhibition organized by Dulwich Picture Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, in collaboration with the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, and the Groninger Museum.

Tom Thomson

Tom Thomson
Author: David Silcox
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 729
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1443442356

A stunning new edition of the Canadian classic with never-before-seen paintings First published in 1977 to commemorate the centenary of the birth of a Canadian painter whose brief, brilliant life, and untimely death in a mysterious canoe accident, gained him mythic status in his homeland, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm quickly attained legendary status in its own right. This newly designed and expanded edition revives a classic and adds more than 25 never-before-seen paintings and a new introduction. Co-authors Harold Town, a founder of the Painters Eleven and an icon of Canadian art himself, and art historian David P. Silcox, former head of Sotheby's Canadian division, celebrate this early associate of the Group of Seven as a key creative figure without falling into the trap of cultural jingoism. Thomson, the authors maintain, was an inspired regional painter—in the best sense of that term—who stumbled upon the bold Expressionist palette pioneered by Matisse and his contemporaries despite working from a provincial backwater. Thomson's finest works are reproduced here in painstakingly colour-matched plates, including more than 80 of Thomson's famous oil sketches in exactly their original size.