TOM THOMSON: THE SILENCE AND THE STORM. by Town, Harold (signed) and Silcox, David P - 1982

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982. 240 pp, oblong 4to (10 3/4" H). Signed on front free endpaper by Harold Town. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions, b&w photographs, drawings. "(M)arks 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. The accompanying texts provide an aesthetic commentary and a straightforward biographical chronicle." Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, a tiny area of minor edge wear.. Signed by Author. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Tom Thomson..