Tom Thomson: The Last Spring

by Joan Murray

In the summer of 1917, Tom Thomson, one of Canada's greatest artists, died tragically and mysteriously in Algonquin Park.

In The Last Spring, the reader comes very close to seeing Thomson's last spring through his eyes by focusing on a small segment - a single season - of his sketches. In his last months, Thomson painted 62 sketches of the advancing spring and summer. He called these works his "records" and regarded the series as being...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550022180
• ISBN13: 9781550022186
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.8" x 10.3"