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1915.110
Sand Hill
Alternate title: Sand Hill, South River
Fall 1915
Oil on wood
8 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.4 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; t., in graphite, Sand Hill on road to South River fall 1915 – on this day Thomson / tramped 14 miles carrying a sketch box and gun - a fox and / seven partridge which he shot that day and did this and / another sketch / James MacCallum; c.l., brown ink, H; c.l., brown ink, AM / PROPERTY OF / HARKNESS; l.l., in graphite by Lawren Harris, 1st class; l.l., ballpoint, Owner - Mrs. F.E.Fisk; l.l., in ink on red bordered label, SAND HILL/FISK; c.r., in red pencil, 10 2" x 8 2"; l.r., graphite, 85 M Thomson; l.r., typed on label of Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, no. 17 / Sand Hill oil on board / Collection of Mrs. F.E. Fisk / niece of the artist
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; t., in graphite, Sand Hill on road to South River fall 1915 – on this day Thomson / tramped 14 miles carrying a sketch box and gun - a fox and / seven partridge which he shot that day and did this and / another sketch / James MacCallum; c.l., brown ink, H; c.l., brown ink, AM / PROPERTY OF / HARKNESS; l.l., in graphite by Lawren Harris, 1st class; l.l., ballpoint, Owner - Mrs. F.E.Fisk; l.l., in ink on red bordered label, SAND HILL/FISK; c.r., in red pencil, 10 2" x 8 2"; l.r., graphite, 85 M Thomson; l.r., typed on label of Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, no. 17 / Sand Hill oil on board / Collection of Mrs. F.E. Fisk / niece of the artist
Provenance
Estate of artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Jessie Fisk, Owen Sound, by descent
Katherine Fisk Morrison, Owen Sound, by descent
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1922 Owen Sound
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Women's Art Association Exhibit of Paintings by Tom Thomson, May 1–6, 1922, no. 41, as Sand Hill, South River.1957 Thomson London
London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, George Thomson 1868 -, July 6–September 6, 1957, no. 5, lent by Mrs Fred Fiske [sic].1967 Thomson
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 7.1977 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. 17.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 69, (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
Stevenson 1927
Stevenson, Orlando John. A People's Best: Out of the North Country. Toronto: The Musson Book Company Ltd., 1927, p. 76.Addison 1969
Addison, Ottelyn, Elizabeth Harwood. Tom Thomson, The Algonquin Years. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969, p. 46.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 90 (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. 131, 133, 222 (repr. col.)Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 78–79 (repr. col.)Record last updated July 4, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Sand Hill, Fall 1915 (1915.110)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=390 (accessed on May 3, 2024).