The West Wind (painting)

The West Wind (painting)

Infobox Painting


title=The West Wind
artist=Tom Thomson
year=1917
type=Oil on canvas
height=120.7
width=37.2
height_inch=47 1/2
width_inch=54
city=Toronto
museum=Art Gallery of Ontario

The West Wind is a well-known painting by Tom Thomson. [cite web|title =Thomson, Tom: The West Wind| url=http://artchive.com/artchive/G/groupseven/thomson_west_wind.jpg.html|accessdate = 2007-05-26]

Origins

Thomson based The West Wind on an earlier, slightly different sketch he produced in 1916 while working as a park ranger in Algonquin Park. [cite web|title =Marcel Granger – Tom Thomson's The West Wind | url =http://www.lino.com/~marcelg/vent_an.htm|accessdate = 2007-05-26]

The stamp

The Canadian government honored Thomson with a series of stamps, one of which featured the West Wind.

References

See also

*Tom Thomson

External links

* [http://artchive.com/artchive/G/groupseven/thomson_west_wind.jpg.html Thomson, Tom: The West Wind]
* [http://www.lino.com/~marcelg/vent_an.htm Marcel Granger – Tom Thomson's The West Wind]


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