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The Drive
Artist	Tom Thomson
Year	1916–17
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	120 cm × 137.5 cm (47 in × 54.1 in)
Location	Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph

The Drive is an oil-on-canvas painting of 1916–17 by the Canadian artist Tom Thomson. It depicts the logging industry in Algonquin Park. A frequent subject of Thomson's work, the painting shows timbermen directing sawn logs down a canal towards the Ottawa River. It was based on sketches of Thomson's composed while he was a fire ranger in the park.

References

1. https://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibitions-detail/the-drive/ AGG
2. https://www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=636 TTC

v t e Tom Thomson
General	Biography Artistic development Death and legacy
Paintings	Drowned Land (1912) Northern River (1914–1915) Spring Ice (1915–1916) The Drive (1916–1917) The West Wind (1916–17) The Jack Pine (1916–17)
Locations	Algonquin Park The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto Grip Ltd. The Studio Building
Public collections	Art Gallery of Ontario McMichael Canadian Art Collection National Gallery of Canada
Friends and acquaintances	John William Beatty Franklin Carmichael William Cruikshank Lawren Harris A. Y. Jackson Frank Johnston Alice Elinor Lambert Arthur Lismer James MacCallum J. E. H. MacDonald Thoreau MacDonald Frederick Varley
Related	Blodwen Davies (biographer) Fine Weather, Georgian Bay (1913 painting) Group of Seven Joan Murray (cataloguer) The Tom Thomson Mystery (1970 book)

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