Tom Thomson : design for a Canadian hero /

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Author / Creator:Murray, Joan.
Imprint:Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, 1998.
Description:1 online resource (109 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11177289
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ISBN:9781554883691
1554883695
9781459720459
1459720458
1550023152
9781550023152
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9781459722415
9786611969776
6611969772
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This is an intimate biography of an artist who became a legend after his death, but who in his private life stands revealed as a troubled man who was, in many ways, his own victim. Joan Murray's new biography is part detective work, too: she investigates his beliefs, and the origins of his great masterpieces, and provides a convincing description of the possible circumstances of his death. The art of Tom Thomson represents one of the high points of Canadian modernism, which flourished in the first two decades of this century. During his brief career, lasting just five years, Thomson evolved a hi.
Other form:Print version: Murray, Joan, 1943- Tom Thomson. Toronto, Ont. ; Tonawanda, NY : Dundurn Press, ©1998 1550023152 9781550023152