The many deaths of Tom Thomson : separating fact from fiction / Gregory Klages.
Publication details: Toronto, Ont. : Dundurn, 2016.Description: 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781459731967 (pbk.)
- Tom Thomson : separating fact from fiction
- 759.11 23
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
How did Tom Thomson die in the summer of 1917? Was the Canadian landscape painter 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 his death, this book 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. Thomas "Tom" Thomson (1877 - 1917) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as being a member of the group itself. Thomson died under mysterious circumstances on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park.
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