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Catalogue entry
1915.72
Fire-Swept Hills
Summer of fall 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
9 1/8 x 10 1/2 in. (23.2 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription verso: u.l., in ink, Very few of Tom Thomsons / sketches were signed. but / there is no question about this / being genuine. A.Y. Jackson; l.r., in graphite on torn label, MELLORS FINE ARTS / LIMITED / RA. ../ Marc.../ 19...; in graphite, R. A. Mackenzie [sic]
Provenance
Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto
W.P. Mckenzie, Toronto
R.A. Laidlaw
Private collection, Toronto
Sotheby's, Toronto, 6 May 1991, lot 110
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1949 Laidlaw
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, ?2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 59, (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.Published References
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 89 (repr. col.)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. 31, 133, 212 (repr. col.)Silcox 2002
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, p. 18 (repr. col.)Silcox 2003
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, p. 287 (repr. col.)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, p. 183.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. ""Fire-Swept Hills, Summer of fall 1915 (1915.72)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=351 (accessed on May 6, 2024).