Tom Thomson The Silence and the Storm

Tom Thomson The Silence and the Storm, Town, Harold; Silcox, David P. Published by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, Canada, 1977. First Edition. Signed and dated (’77’) by both authors in black felt on free endpaper.  Size: 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Black cloth boards with artist’s initials and titles in orange front and spine; red endpapers. Volume is in fine condition without marks, tears, folds; binding and boards fine. Unclipped dust jacket is in very good condition with one very tiny closed tear back top edge and one closed tear tail edge back tape repaired from the inside.

According to biographers Town and Silcox: “Tom Thomson, a major formative influence in Canadian art, remains one of the most important Canadian artists of this century. Forerunner of the Group of Seven, he was a man who pioneered painting techniques and shaped the way Canadians view their land. The Silence and the Storm marks the centennial of the artist’s birth with the most extensive collection of his work ever published-177 paintings in full colour and many more in black and white. The prints in this book, most of them duplicating the precise dimensions of the original paintings, reproduce with unprecedented fidelity the colours, techniques and power of all of Thomson’s classics, plus a number of works that have not been publicly displayed in any form.”002005 $75