Oh, I am so proud of the right sidebar at Gene & Clara's. Just look at all that great stuff. "Happening Recently Enough in Argyle, New York" is set just above the clickable list of labels. Right now we feature a painting by Tom Thomson.
Algonquin country, now Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park, was his stamping ground. His best paintings date from 1914-1917.
I was there, in Algonquin, on a canoe trip, in July 1969. In a place that looked a lot like that (except for the snow) I looked up at the moon, where the crew of Apollo 11 were making the first landing.
Bit of a loner Thomson was, perhaps a bit of a misfit, and his death while out in a canoe on his favorite waters remains a mystery.
