Tom Thomson

Tom Thomson
Life & Work by David P. Silcox
Addison, Ottelyn. Tom Thomson: The Algonquin Years. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969.
Colgate, William. Canadian Art: Its Origins and Development. Toronto: Ryerson
Press, 1943.
Davies, Blodwen. Paddle and Palette: The Story of Tom Thomson. Notes on the
pictures prepared by Arthur Lismer. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1930.
Dejardin, Ian, et al. Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Edited by
Amy Concannon. London: Philip Wilson Publishers. The catalogue for the exhibition in
2011–12 at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
Grace, Sherrill. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional
Autobiographies and Reproductions. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004.
Harper, J. Russell. Painting in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1966.
Harris, Lawren. “The Group of Seven in Canadian History.” In Canadian Historical
Society, Report of the Annual Meeting Held at Victoria and Vancouver, June 16–19,
1948. Edited by R.A. Preston. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1948.
–––. The Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto: Rous and Mann Press, 1964. This
account is more reliable than the one in A.Y. Jackson’s autobiography A Painter’s
Country.
Housser, F.B. A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto:
Macmillan, 1926.
Jackson, A.Y. A Painter’s Country. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1958. Paperback
edition, 1964.
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven.
Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2010.
Lismer, Arthur. Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for the
Truth in the Wilderness. Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1967.
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