
On July 8 1917, Thomson died mysteriously on Canoe Lake, just as he was reaching ascendancy in his career. Why does Thomson's life and art fascinate us still? What draws thousands of people each year to his cairn on Canoe Lake and propels his oil sketches into the stratosphere of the Canadian art market?... (Full plot summary below)
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On July 8 1917, Thomson died mysteriously on Canoe Lake, just as he was reaching ascendancy in his career. Why does Thomson's life and art fascinate us still? What draws thousands of people each year to his cairn on Canoe Lake and propels his oil sketches into the stratosphere of the Canadian art market?
Leave your thoughts about West Wind: The Vision Of Tom Thomson.
| Globe and MailJames AdamsIt's a lovely piece of work from two of the country's most esteemed documentarians... |
| Toronto StarMurray WhyteThe West Wind is the same old reverential Thomson myth we've heard hundreds of times: About Thomson's self-taught intuitive genius, his love of nature, his outdoorsy, loner compulsions. |