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1914-1915.04
Petawawa Gorges (Early Spring)
Alternate titles: Early Spring; Lake, Early Spring; Northern Lake, Early Spring; Petawawa Gorges, Ice Going Out; Spring Ice, Petawawa Gorges
Winter 1914–15
Oil on canvas
25 3/16 x 32 1/16 in. (63.9 x 81.5 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON
Provenance
Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, between 1922 and February 1925
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (4723). Bequest of Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, 1944
Exhibition History
1914 RCA
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Art Museum, Public Library Building, Toronto, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition, November 19, 1914, no. 190, as A Lake, Early Spring (?)1915 Halifax
Fine Arts Building, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Nova Scotia Provincial Exhibition, September 8–16, 1915, no. 181, as A Northern Lake, Early Spring (?)1920 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 30, as A Lake, Early Spring (?)1920 Sarnia (1)
Sarnia Conservation Committee, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Pictures, March 1920.1920 Worcester
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Paintings by the "Group of Seven" Canadian Artists, November 7, 1920, no. 27, as Early Spring. Traveled to: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 1–31, 1920; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, January 1–February 15, 1921 (as A Collection of Oil Painting by the Canadian "Group of Seven" and Water Colors by Nine American Artists); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, March 1921 (as Oil Paintings by "Group of Seven" Canadian Artists: Work of Mahoning Society of Painters, Youngstown, Ohio, Pictorial Photographs of Greece); Art Association of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, April 1921 (as Exhibition of Paintings by Canadian Artists); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 1921; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, July 8–August 29, 1921; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September 10–October 3, 1921 (as Three Special Exhibitions: Paintings of China by Frederick Clay Bartlett, Paintings of Louise Upton Brumback, Paintings by the 'Group of Seven" Can); Columbus Art Association, Columbus, Ohio, October 1921 (as Paintings by the "Group of Seven" Canadian Artists); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, December 1921; Hackley Gallery of Art, Muskegon, Michigan, January 1922.1922 Thomson Owen Sound
1922, no. 35, as Early Spring.1925 Thomson
University of Toronto, Hart House, Toronto, Exhibition of Tom Thomson Sketches, February 16–28, 1925.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, as Spring Ice, Petawawa Gorges.1945 DPC
1945, no. 131, (repr.) as Petawawa Gorges c. 1915.1946 Albany
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, Painting in Canada: A Selective Historical Survey, January 10–March 10, 1946, no. 49.1949 CNE
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Arranged by the Canadian National Exhibition Association and the Art Gallery of Toronto, August 26–September 10, 1949, no. 142.1955 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Tom Thomson Travelling Exhibition: Sketches and Painting from the National Gallery of Canada Collection, November 10–December 6, 1955. Traveled to: Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, December 13, 1955–January 1, 1956; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, February 2–22, 1956; Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, March 1–8, 1956; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 13–25, 1956; University of British Columbia, Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 3–28, 1956; Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 5–25, 1956; Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 1–21, 1956; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 1–30, 1956; Sarnia Public Library, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, August 1956; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Association, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 8, 1956; Yarmouth Art Society, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 31–November 12, 1956; Colchester Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.), Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 15–24, 1956; Louisburg Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.), Louisburg, Nova Scotia, November 27–December 6, 1956; Amherst Art Association, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 10, 1956–December 24, 1965; Moncton Society of Art, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, January 24–February 2, 1957; Fredericton Art Club, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, February 6–20, 1957; University of New Brunswich, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, February 20–March 6, 1957; Art Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, March 9–20, 1957; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 4–18, 1957; Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 18–May 1, 1957; Glenhyrst Gardens, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, June 22–July 2, 1957; London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, July–September 1957; Willistead Library and Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 1–November 5, 1957; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 15–December 15, 1957.1956 Thomson
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson Exhibition, 1877 - 1917, September–October 1956, no. 2.1957 Thomson London
London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, George Thomson 1868 -, July 6–September 6, 1957, no. 24.1957 Thomson Windsor
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 4.1958 Los Angeles
National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.1960 Mexico
Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, lnstituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Arte Canadiense, November 22, 1960–February 1961, no. 116.1962 Bordeaux
Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, L'art au Canada, May 11–June 31, 1962, no. 61.1967 NGC (1)
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Canadian Painting 1850 - 1950, January 8–February 12, 1967, no. 30. Traveled to: London Art Gallery, London, Ontario, February 17–March 26, 1967; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, April 1–May 7, 1967; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 12–June 10, 1967; Rothmans Art Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, June 16–July 30, 1967; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, August 9–September 9, 1967; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 15–October 10, 1967; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 20–November 18, 1967; Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, November 30–December 30, 1967; The New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, January 15–February 15, 1968; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, February–March 1968; Musée du Québec, Québec City, March 15–April 14, 1968.1969 MacCallum
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. 86, as 1915 (repr.)1970 NGC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 67, as 1916 (repr.) Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 46, (repr.) Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.1977 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 5.1981 Tokyo
National Gallery of Canada, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Twentieth Century Canadian Painting, July 9–August 2, 1981, no. 25, as 1916 (repr.) Traveled to: Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, August 29–September 20, 1981; Oita Prefectural Art Centre, Oita, Japan, October 1–28, 1981.1990 Thomson
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 16–September 16, 1990.1998 Algonquin
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Algonquin Gallery, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, Algonquin Memories: Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park, June 25–October 25, 1998, no. 14, (repr. col.)2000 Sarnia
Gallery Lambton, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, The First Exhibition of "The Sarnia Art Movement," March 1920, February 12–April 2000, no.12002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 36, (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, 2003.2004 St. Petersburg
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 18.Published References
Hubbard 1960b
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 311 (repr.) as 1915.Hubbard 1962
Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, pp. 10, fig. 17 (repr.) as Petawawa Gorges, Ice Going Out.Hubbard 1963
Hubbard, R.H. The Development of Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1963, (repr. back cover).Reid 1969
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, pp. 48, 51 (repr.)Reid 1970
Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 100–101, 103 as 1916 (repr.)Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 36, 73 (repr.)Reid 1973
Reid, Dennis. A Concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973, p. 145 (repr.) as 1916.Smith, G 1974
Smith, George L. Norman Gurd and the Group of 7: A History of the Sarnia Art Movement. Brights Grove, ON: G.L. Smith, 1974, p. 5.Reid 1975
Reid. Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine. 5, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: 1975, p. 23 as 1916–17.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 28–29, 73 (repr. col.)Town 1977a
Town, Harold. "Tom's Work." Toronto Life (September 1977), p. 178.Laing 1979
Laing, G. Blair. Memoirs of an Art Dealer. Vol. 1. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979, p. 70.Boulet 1982
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, pp. 200–201 (repr. col.)Masson 1982
Masson, Alain. "Le Sentiment de la Profindeur dans la peinture et au cinema." Revue de L'Université de Moncton (April - December 1982), p. 77 (repr.)Thom 1990
Thom, Ian M. Tom Thomson. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue.Reid and Hill 2002
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. 125, 128–30, 148, 149, 189 (repr. col.), 314.King 2010
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, 210.Record last updated March 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Petawawa Gorges (Early Spring), Winter 1914–15 (1914-1915.04)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=271 (accessed on April 19, 2024).