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The West Wind is a well-known painting by Canadian artist Tom Thomson. An iconic image the pine at its centre has been described as growing in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees. It was the artist’s final painting and according to some art historians was unfinished at the time of his sudden death by drowning in 1917.Thomson based The West Wind on an earlier slightly different sketch he produced in 1916 while working as a park ranger in Algonquin Park.
