Prize Money for Sobey Art Award Increased to $70,000 Aug 13, 2008
One of the finest private collections of its kind, the Sobey Art Foundation has assembled exemplary examples from Canadian Masters like Cornelius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson and J.E.H MacDonald. The collection is housed in an intimate setting at Crombie House, the former home of Frank Sobey and his wife Irene in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. (Canada Newswire)
Heffel's break from format focuses on contemporary art Jun 18, 2008
Heffel's break from this format signals both a new maturity and sophistication to the Canadian scene - thematic art auctions have long been a staple in New York and London - and a realization that that scene needs to push beyond such venerable performers as Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and Emily Carr to ensure its long-term health and prosperity. Works by so-called "blue-chip" Canadian artists continue to earn the biggest results and the most publicity: A small Tom Thomson sketch from 1916,... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Thomson painting a `steal,' fails to break auction record May 29, 2008
The second work by iconic artist Tom Thomson to be sold in two days didn't break any records. But at least one envious art collector called the sale of the work, a rare oil on panel sketch entitled View From a Height, Algonquin Park, a "steal" at $1,207,500, including buyer's premium. (Toronto Star)
Tom Thomson painting sells for almost $2M May 27, 2008
An iconic oil sketch by Tom Thomson will be the centrepiece of a Sotheby's art auction set for Monday, May 26, 2008 in Toronto ... The Tom Thomson painting "Pine Trees at Sunset" has sold at auction in Toronto for nearly $2 million, a record for the artist. (CTV.ca)
Thomson sells for $1.9 million May 27, 2008
A new record for the sale at auction of a Tom Thomson painting was set yesterday when Toronto collector and private dealer Ash Prakash placed a winning bid of $1 ... An iconic oil sketch by Tom Thomson was the centrepiece of a Sothebys art auction Monday in Toronto. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Record prices paid at Vancouver art auction May 23, 2008
7 centimetre oil-on-panel sketch by Tom Thomson sold for $1 ... Tamarack Swamp (Sketch #5) by Tom Thomson. (Globe and Mail)
Bust from riverbed reveals face of Julius Caesar: archeologist May 22, 2008
Once again, the artwork of Tom Thomson has captured the spotlight as the Canadian spring art auction season gets underway. A handful of small oil sketches by the iconic Canadian painter have stirred excitment among art buyers across the country. (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
Critics charge new auction practice obscures market May 21, 2008
It's the guarantee, or perhaps that should be The Guarantee: the secret minimum payment that an auction house agrees to pay the consignor of a particular art work regardless of how that Jackson Pollock (or Tom Thomson) performs at auction ... Sotheby's Canada, in association with Toronto reseller Ritchies, joins the guarantee fray the morning of May 26 when it auctions, from a total of 218 lots, two paintings by two of the country's most sought-after artists, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
If you've got a million loonies, grab a mini Thomson May 10, 2008
As a result, Tom Thomson is probably the hottest artist in Canada right now and he's going to get even hotter this month. He was certainly already hot last year, the 90th anniversary of his death (at 39, by drowning a death almost invariably preceded by the adjective mysterious ), when five of his oil paintings sold at auction in Toronto and Vancouver for more than $1-million each, including buyer's premium, marking the first time Thomson passed the million-dollar threshold already claimed by... (Globe and Mail)
A show with drawing power Apr 15, 2008
It had abated so profoundly, in fact, that the art of the Group of Seven (and that of Tom Thomson, who had drowned in Canoe Lake in 1917, shortly before the Group was established) passed with surprising rapidity from outlaw status to classic status and finally, in most quarters at least, to the stuff from which posters, T-shirts, postcards and the lassitude of cultural tedium is made. So why mount another big Group of Seven exhibition now. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Tom Thomson's death under the microscope Apr 3, 2008
Toronto Ontario's chief forensic pathologist, Michael Pollanen, yesterday added potential new fuel to the fire of conspiracy theories surrounding the July, 1917, death of Canadian artist Tom Thomson. In a submission to the educational website , Pollanen said a coroner's opinion that Thomson probably died of an accidental drowning was unjustified. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Zetlins poet laureate post gets funding for another year Jan 29, 2008
Shes a former employee of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery and Toronto Public Library. The city library created the poet laureate position as a one-year pilot project for 2007 with donations from John A. Tamming law firm and Frank Dabbs Canadian Energy Communications and matching funds from ArtsVest, a program run by Business for the Arts. (Owen Sound Sun Times)
The National Gallery of Canada Jan 4, 2008
Early art collections included pieces by Tom Thomson and European artists Leighton and Melbye. Moved out of its space, Gallery closed in 1916. (Suite101.com)
Norval Morrisseau, 76 Dec 5, 2007
Such descriptions, of course, ignore the likes of Tom Thomson, Emily Carr and the Group of Seven and place Mr. Morrisseau in a league with the most innovative artist of the 20th century. The hyperbole is forgivable. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Deep pockets reacting to deep mystery Nov 27, 2007
The time has come to chop down that silly and out-of-place totem pole that stands on the shore of the lake where Tom Thomson drowned ... Woodland Interior, Algonquin Park, 1915, by Tom Thomson, in an undated National Archives of Canada photo, is shown in this undated handout photo ... The mind boggles to think that Tom Thomson didn't have the 50 bucks back in 1917 that might have saved his life. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Inherited Thomson fetches $475000 Nov 26, 2007
TORONTO - An Ottawa woman sold a painting she inherited from her grandmother for $475,000 at an auction Friday night, only months after discovering it was an authentic work by famed Canadian painter Tom Thomson ... The price well exceeded the predicted selling price of $350,000 to $450,000, he said, demonstrating the interest collectors have in acquiring a Tom Thomson work ... "They had pulled out a series of paintings and there was a discussion of some sort ... and when I heard the name Tom... (Canada.com)
Alluring Elizabeth I portrait fetches more than $5M Nov 26, 2007
A Toronto auction that included works by iconic Canadian artists Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Milne has become the second highest grossing Canadian fine art auction in history. An early portrait of Queen Elizabeth I that experts believe was commissioned to advertise the monarch to potential suitors sold for more than $5 million in London on Thursday. (CBC News)
Ontario mother who stole baby free on bail Nov 25, 2007
A Toronto auction that included works by iconic Canadian artists Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Milne has become the second highest grossing Canadian fine art auction in history. France has unveiled a plan that would toss internet users offline if they are caught illegally downloading movies or music. (CBC New Brunswick)
Canadian paintings attract million-dollar sales Nov 25, 2007
TORONTO Paintings by three undisputed masters of Canadian art Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and David Milne drew bids exceeding $1-million each last night in Toronto at the final big auction of important Canadian art for the 2007 fall season ... Tom Thomson's Northern Lights, a small oil sketch completed a few months before his death at 40 in 1917, sold for $1,150,000. (Globe and Mail)
Thomson oil sketch soars to nearly $1.5M at auction Nov 22, 2007
A small Tom Thomson panel the artist painted a few months before his mysterious death sold for a record-breaking $1 ... Tom Thomson presented Spring Thaw to his sister in 1917 prior to his mysterious death. (CBC News)
Tamayo painting found in dumpster sells for more than $1M Nov 22, 2007
A small Tom Thomson panel the artist painted a few months before his mysterious death sold for a record-breaking $1. 46 million at a Toronto auction Tuesday. (CBC News)
Thomson's Winter Thaw a hot item Nov 21, 2007
A small oil sketch by Tom Thomson painted less than five months before his untimely death in 1917 sold for a record $1,463,500 at an auction of important Canadian art Tuesday night in Toronto. Winter Thaw, at 12. (Globe and Mail)
Sotheby's auction breaks 18 records Nov 20, 2007
Also doing well was a Tom Thomson oil sketch, Algonquin Park, that sold for $550,000 - $635,000 with premium - to an unnamed Toronto collector, no doubt lured by the fact that it is reportedly one of the last works Thomson did before his mysterious death in 1917. This same collector also paid almost $1-million (including premium) for two oil sketches by Thomson colleague and later Group of Seven associate J.E.H. MacDonald. (Globe and Mail)
Watch for women of Beaver Hall Nov 18, 2007
These include Algonquin Park (1917), an unknown late-period Tom Thomson oil sketch with a presale estimate between $400,000 and $600,000. At last fall's Sotheby's sale, Thomson's Burnt Area With Ragged Rocks sold for $934,000. (Toronto Star)
Owen Sound Art Gallery Rebranding Nov 11, 2007
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound wants to raise its profile ... The new logo will be unveiled at a reception at the Tom Thomson Gallery in Owen Sound this evening starting at 7:30. (CKNX Radio)
Obituary: Ken Danby, 67 Sep 25, 2007
It is tempting to imagine ironies both cruel and poetic in the death of Mr. Danby, the realist, while canoeing in the same wilderness (although at a different lake) where expressionist landscape painter Tom Thomson drowned 90 years ago. The coincidences and the metaphors may not bear serious scrutiny - they interpreted and represented nature in different ways - but both men loved the wilderness and were exploring its richness when they died suddenly and before their time, causing great shock and... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The many faces of Frederick Varley Aug 12, 2007
In Toronto, Varley found work at a commercial graphics company alongside Lismer, Tom Thomson and senior designer J.E.H. MacDonald. These men would repair to the Arts and Letters Club for lunch, and were often joined by Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Signe McMichael, 86 Jul 6, 2007
Signe McMichael was one half of the couple who created the collection of works by Tom Thomson, Emily Carr, David Milne and the Group of Seven, and Inuit and Woodland art and sculpture. She and her husband, Robert, donated 200 paintings to the public in 1965, along with the house that contained them known as Tapawingo (Place of Joy) and the forest in which it sits, about 40 kilometres northwest of Toronto. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Art world a-whirl May 26, 2007
8-million, including four paintings at $1-million or more, including two minor Tom Thomson sketches. Those records are likely to survive a smaller auction next Monday in Toronto, by Sotheby's at Ritchie's auctioneers, which is estimated at over $10-million. (National Post)
Canadian art sale raises record $22.8-million May 24, 2007
He was referring to two small Tom Thomson sketches Spring Woods (1916) and Summer Clouds (1916) which each sold for $1. 035-million. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Hot market draws out little-known paintings May 23, 2007
Leading a pack of splendid works by David Milne, Tom Thomson and Emily Carr is a large and brilliantly coloured Pine Tree and Red House, Winter, City Painting II created by Lawren Harris in 1924, which carries a hefty pre-sale estimate of $800,000 to $1. 2-million. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
McMichael art works taking trip to D.C. May 11, 2007
Toronto Sixty art works, including paintings by Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris, Emily Carr and David Milne, are being shipped next month to Washington from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ont. Twenty-six paintings are going to be displayed in an exhibition at the Canadian embassy called Our Home and Native Land, set to open July 4 and run through early January, 2008. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Buyers hot for Canuck art May 5, 2007
A Heffel sale set for May 23 offers several stunning pieces by the likes of Lawren Harris, Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice, and is expected to draw between $12 million and $16 million. One of the stars is a Harris piece entitled Pine Tree and Red House worth an estimated $800,000 to $1. (Toronto Star)
Ontario opens vault for McMichael Apr 3, 2007
Sorbara, perhaps not coincidentally, is the MPP for the Vaughan-King-Aurora riding, in which the McMichael Collection, famed for its collection of Group of Seven and Tom Thomson paintings, is located. It marks the first time since the gallery became a public institution in 1965 that the Ontario government has given it a no-strings-attached investment above and beyond an annual contribution to its operating budget. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
`Inheritance of Loss' wins book critics' prize Mar 9, 2007
Troy Jollimore's "Tom Thomson in Purgatory," a debut collection, won for poetry, chosen over such celebrated finalists as W.D. Snodgrass, Frederick Seidel and the late Miltos Sachtouris. "I'm stunned, and I may not be the only one," said Jollimore. (FOX59, IN)
Art auction brings record prices for Canadians Nov 26, 2006
Northern Lights (1916-'17) by Tom Thomson went for $776,250, the second-highest price ever paid for the painter's work ... 4 million auction of Canadian art in Toronto including the $934,000 top price ever paid for a Tom Thomson oil painting earned the company $2. (Toronto Star)
Tom Thomson tops rich day Nov 22, 2006
Tom Thomson's Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks fetched $934,000 yesterday ... 07:51 AMVISUAL ARTS COLUMNISTA price spent for a Tom Thomson oil sketch led the way at a record-shattering Sotheby's auction in Toronto yesterday that saw total sales of $7 ... "The reason the Thomson did so well now is because there are so few of his works still around to buy," said Sotheby's president David Silcox, a Thomson scholar who co-authored the book Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm with the late artist... (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Tom Thomson's Algonquin sketch draws record price approaching $1 ... Nov 21, 2006
Tom Thomson's Algonquin sketch draws record price approaching $1 million ... Tom Thomson's Algonquin sketch draws record price approaching $1 million ... TORONTO (CP) - An oil sketch of Ontario's northern wilderness by Tom Thomson drew a record bid just shy of $1 million at auction Monday, the first significant Canadian art sale since one of the painter's biggest fans, press baron Ken Thomson, died in June. (Ottawa Citizen (subscription))
The market is strong Nov 21, 2006
TORONTO When a small oil by Tom Thomson sold for a record-breaking $934,000 (all prices include the 15-per-cent premium) at Sotheby's fall auction in Toronto yesterday, it showed that there's still life in the old warhorses of the Canadian art market ... Tom Thomsons small oil sketch Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks sold for $934,000 at auction on Monday. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Re-evaluating Emily Carr Oct 8, 2006
This happened in 1995 when the National Gallery of Canada re-assessed the Group of Seven and again in 2002 when the National Gallery and Ontario Art Gallery presented a revised portrait of Tom Thomson. Now its Emily Carr's turn. (Waterloo Record)
McMichael's 40-year crucible Jul 27, 2006
The cover is Tom Thomson's Autumn, Algonquin Park (1916-1917), with all its fiery orange ... Others Tom Thomson, for one didn't go overseas but a bleak wartime mentality found its way into their works. (Toronto Star -- Arts)
Art world remembers Kenneth Thomson as collector Jun 15, 2006
There were his Group of Sevens and the Krieghoffs, but also world-best collections of 20th-century Canadian artists Tom Thomson and David Milne. And, capping it all, the acquisition Thomson himself described as his crowning achievement as a collector Massacre of the Innocents by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, bought for $76 million US at an auction in 2002. (Canada.com)
For the love of art Jun 14, 2006
(Thomson was a patriotic and hugely sentimental lover of all manner of Canadiana, be it a Maple Leafs game or a Tom Thomson sketch. . (Globe and Mail)
Art world truly a part of his soul Jun 13, 2006
He went on to acquire the work of other Canadians, such as James Wilson Morrice and the Group of Seven, especially Tom Thomson. Eventually he branched out into European art. (Toronto Star -- GTA)
Bidding brisk for Canadian art Jun 1, 2006
Melting Snow, a Tom Thomson gouache on silk, had a presale estimate of $200,000 to $250,000 (without buyer's premium). It sold for $200,000 without buyer's premium. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Lawren Harris sales launch Canadian spring auction season May 28, 2006
Highlights include a large Robert Whale canvas (Panoramic View of Niagara Falls with a Michigan Central Railway Train ), George Reid's 19th-century painting Toronto Waterfront, and smaller pieces from top names such as Cornelius Krieghoff, the Group of Seven, Tom Thomson, Milne, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Rita Letendre. External Links. (CBC New Brunswick)
Harness Racing Hall of Fame prepares for induction May 21, 2006
Inductees include Ron Gurfein and Tom Thomson in the Living Hall of Fame. Also, Jack Ginnetti, Bill Heller, Ed Keys and Virginia O'Brien will be inducted into the Communicators' Corner. (Times Herald-Record, NY)
Budget gives ammo to Liberals May 6, 2006
There was even a silent auction that included art from Tom Thomson and a Rolling Stones concert T-shirt with an album signed by Keith Richards, starting at $525. The hottest items at the Young Liberals' auction of time with top Liberals were a playoff game with Dryden and "dinner with Belinda Stronach.". (Toronto Star -- Canada)
Painting put Group of Seven on the world stage Jan 1, 2006
(Tom Thomson was a member of the small circle, but he died before the group formally organized. . (Ottawa Citizen)
