Tom Thomson: Trees by Joan Murray philosophy Determined to document the lives

Determined to document the lives and customs of the Native people of the Northwest before contact with white settlers changed them forever

water colourist

seminal Canadian artist

marked a signal moment in Canada’s emerging sense of itself in the year before Confederation

With equipment that would had disheartened an Indian

Tom Thomson: Trees by Joan Murray philosophy Determined to document the livesTom Thomson: Trees by Joan Murray 8vo. pp. 128. profusely illustrated in colour & b w. hardcover. dw. (near fine upper right front corner of dust wrapper creased). Toronto: McArthur & Company, [1999]. ISBN 10: 1552780929 ISBN 13: 9781552780923 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ The art of Tom Thomson represents one of the highpoints of Canadian modernism, which flourished in the first two weeks