Thanks for sharing your view on Algonquin Park and Tom Thomson. Lots of luck on your "On the Trail of Tom Thomson" project. Glad that we can help support you on this great adventure.
29 mar Tom Thomson - The mystery, eh? Sylvio Gagnon Woodland Waterfall by Tom Thomson Waterfall by Sylvio Gagnon I have followed Tom’s tracks to many places in Algonquin park where he painted his famous little sketches on 8×10 birch panels. One of these places is very special to me… it’s about a waterfall, called High Falls, that I had seen on the map at the end of Traverse Lake leading to the Barron river (Achray sector). For some compelling reason, I wanted to see and paint this waterfall. Therefore, one day, I canoed to this spot with my wife and I was not disappointed. What a beautiful sight! It was getting late in the day and I quickly did a little 8×10 before darkness set in. We returned to camp at Achray and, after a few days of painting, back home to Ottawa. Several weeks later, while sipping a coffee and flipping through The Silence and the Storm, I noticed a waterfall painting on page 132. To my utter amazement, Tom and I had painted the same waterfall from the same spot. His was done in about 1916 and mine in 1975. WOW! Un peintre des quatre saisons…
I am blown away by your journey and knowledge of Thomson and Algonquin Park. You have truly channel TT!
Thanks for sharing your view on Algonquin Park and Tom Thomson. Lots of luck on your "On the Trail of Tom Thomson" project. Glad that we can help support you on this great adventure.
29 mar
Tom Thomson - The mystery, eh?
Sylvio Gagnon
Woodland Waterfall
by Tom Thomson
Waterfall
by Sylvio Gagnon
I have followed Tom’s tracks to many places in Algonquin park where he painted his famous little sketches on 8×10 birch panels. One of these places is very special to me… it’s about a waterfall, called High Falls, that I had seen on the map at the end of Traverse Lake leading to the Barron river (Achray sector). For some compelling reason, I wanted to see and paint this waterfall. Therefore, one day, I canoed to this spot with my wife and I was not disappointed. What a beautiful sight! It was getting late in the day and I quickly did a little 8×10 before darkness set in. We returned to camp at Achray and, after a few days of painting, back home to Ottawa. Several weeks later, while sipping a coffee and flipping through The Silence and the Storm, I noticed a waterfall painting on page 132. To my utter amazement, Tom and I had painted the same waterfall from the same spot. His was done in about 1916 and mine in 1975. WOW! Un peintre des quatre saisons…