Group of Seven Matted Print – Tom Thomson – The Jack Pine McMichael Canadian Art Collection

This print is of Tom Thomson’s famous The Jack Pine iconic painted. Painted in 1917, it was based on a sketch he had done at Lake Cauchon in Algonquin Park in 1916. Purchased in 1918 by the National Gallery of Canada, it remains there over 100 years later. The Jack Pine is reproduced with copyright permission. Therefore, the colours are true to the original. Professionally matted with 2″ archival matte.

Image size: 9 1/2″  x 8 1/2″. Matted to 13″ x 13 3/4″ Available for local delivery only in Cambridge, Stratford, and surrounding areas. No shipping is available.

The Artist: Tom Thomson (1877-1917) is arguably Canada’s most intriguing, and perhaps its most iconic artist. Tom’s love of the wilderness led him to Algonquin Park in the spring of 1912 with a sketch kit in hand, and he encouraged his colleagues at Grip in Toronto, (future Group of Seven members, J.E.H. MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Fred Varley and Franklin Carmichael) to join him, where they painted together and became known informally as the Algonquin School. Through MacDonald, Thomson also met Lawren Harris and shared studios with A.Y. Jackson at the Studio Building where Lawren Harris was driving and supporting a new movement in Canadian art. By 1914, Thomson’s paintings of the north were already becoming recognized by The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Unfortunately, the progress of the informal group of artists were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War. The group would not formally come together again until after Tom’s death, to form Canada’s first national school of painting, the Group of Seven. On July 8, 1917, Thomson disappeared while paddling across Canoe Lake. His body was found 8 days later. Though ruled an accidental drowning, the cause of his death is surrounded by skepticism to this day. Although Tom Thomson did not live to see the birth of the Group, his name became synonymous with the radical group of painters who would create and reflect Canadian identity through painting.

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