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Year(s): 1914 »
1914.01
Lowery Dickson's Shack
Alternate titles: Larry Dickson's Shack; March Larry Dickson's Shack; March, Larry [sic] Dickson's Shack
Spring 1914
Oil on canvas on paperboard
8 13/16 x 10 3/16 in. (22.4 x 25.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON

Inscription verso: u.l., in graphite, 321... / 5
Exhibition History
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Jackman Gift of Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some of the Members of the Group of Seven, January 25–February 23, 1969, no. 79, as March, Larry [sic] Dickson's Shack, as 1915.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 21, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 9.
Published References
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, pp. 301 as March, Larry [sic] Dickson's Shack.
Reid, Dennis. The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. HR. Jackman Gift of the Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some Members of the Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1969. Exhibition catalogue, p. 47.
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 37 reproduce an image of Lowery "Dixon" splitting wood.
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 124, 174 (repr. col.), 331n78.
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, pp. 132, 138.
Remarks

The sketch was also titled March, Larry [sic] Dickson’s Shack but Thomson was not in Algonquin Park in March. Little 1970, 31, 33, writes that Lowery Dickson, a retired shantyman, lived with George Rowe, guide and woodsman, in a cabin situated on a low sandy point at the mouth of Potter and Joe Creeks in Algonquin Park. There is also a detailed letter from Little to H.O. McCurry, 1 April 1949, with information about the shack, Accession files, NGC. On a group photograph of March 1917, once owned by Shannon Fraser, in a private collection, Qualicum Beach, B.C., the shantyman’s name is spelled “Lowrie Dixon.” However, his great granddaughter, Maggie Fulton, has provided the correct spelling of Mr. Dickson’s name.

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Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Lowery Dickson's Shack, Spring 1914 (1914.01)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=175 (accessed on March 29, 2024).