Northern River (painting)
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Northern River is a 1914–15 oil painting by Canadian painter Tom Thomson. The work was inspired by a sketch completed over the same winter, possibly in Algonquin Park. The completed canvas is large, m
Tom Thomson, Northern River
Thomson, Study for Northern River
The Pool, Winter 1915–16. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Advertising or calendar drawing, Fall-winter 1912. Location unknown
Spring Ice
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Spring Ice is a 1915–16 oil painting by Canadian painter Tom Thomson. The work was inspired by a sketch completed on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. The completed canvas is large, measuring 72.0 cm × 10
Northern River (painting)
…ability to transform his small sketches into powerful studio paintings. This is apparent with other sketch-painting pairings, such as Opulent October, Spring Ice, The Jack Pine and The West Wind, amongst many other examples. Thomson's first gouache study of the work was brightly coloured partly because gouache…
Tom Thomson, Spring Ice
River, March–April 1915. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Opening of the Rivers: Sketch for "Spring Ice", Spring 1915. Oil on composite wood-pulp board, 21.6 × 26.7 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa