The West Wind (painting)

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The West Wind
Tom Thomson, 1917
Oil on canvas
120.7 × 37.2 cm, 47 1/2 × 54 in
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

The West Wind is a well-known painting by Tom Thomson.[1]

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[edit] 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.[2]

[edit] The stamp

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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Thomson, Tom: The West Wind. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.
  2. ^ Marcel Granger – Tom Thomson's The West Wind. Retrieved on 2007-05-26.

[edit] See also

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