Tom Thomson: North Star, Curatorial Talk

[@audiepc]

We had finally planned to go tomorrow.. our first and last chance.. and now we are having this Winter storm! I’m devastated. Thanks for taping this video.

[@allendesjardins2470]

Always been an admirer of the Group. Have painted reproductions of Thomson and other G of 7 painters. Enjoying the lecture very much. Cheers.

[@MichelleHendry]

Ian Dejardin’s lectures always bring paintings I love even more alive.

[@PineMartyn]

Thank you for recording and uploading this talk. I attended this exhibition twice and was overwhelmed by it. Gratefully, - Martin in Huntsville, Ontario

[@doughilborn9447]

Wonderful: love how the connections are made.

[@AlexSoutheyMusic]

Talk me to sleep, Ian. Great speech. Great accent.

[@josephinekush5056]

I started watching this with an open uncritical mind but this guy is nuts, especially his opening. Thomson is standing on a wet rock fly-fishing which I've done a hundred times. If he's concentrating on anything it's keeping his balance. "Born with a gun & fishing rod in his hand". What country boy in that period wasn't? I was & I was born almost a century later. My mother's family are all from that part of Ontario. They owned property around Algonquin Park & knew Thomson quite well. He wasn't a saint or a living god, as portrayed by this joker. OMG. Tom was simply a young, gay man who loved to paint. My grandparent's knew it; everybody knew it. It just wasn't a topic for discussion around the dinner table. It was a different time, but this guy's approach is way over board with his approach.

[@russbentley7677]

Curator of the McMichael Not born in Canada... how inappropriate!