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1916.33
Spring Foliage on the Muskoka River
Alternate title: Rushing Stream
Spring 1916
Oil on wood panel
8 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.5 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in ink, AM; c.r., in graphite, 1915; l.r., label, in ink, James M. MacCallum; under label in graphite, No 69 Mrs Harkness; u.c., graphite, Needs frame of shape to through [sic] the background farther back / something with a deep roll-spring foliage on Muskoka River / a very good example of sureness of brush stroke
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in ink, AM; c.r., in graphite, 1915; l.r., label, in ink, James M. MacCallum; under label in graphite, No 69 Mrs Harkness; u.c., graphite, Needs frame of shape to through [sic] the background farther back / something with a deep roll-spring foliage on Muskoka River / a very good example of sureness of brush stroke
Provenance
Estate of artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Mrs. W.T. Goodison, Sarnia 1925, by descent
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1970.1.3). Purchased with funds donated by R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto, 1969
Exhibition History
1925 Sarnia (2)
Women's Conservation Art Committee, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Little Pictures Exhibition, November 1925.1976 McMichael
McMichael Canadian Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Group of Seven: Canadian Landscape Painters, August 25–September 18, 1976, no. 2, as 1915. Traveled to: Talbot Rice Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 29–October 20, 1976; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, November 27–December 18, 1976; Canada House Gallery, London, January 12–February 23, 1977; The Royal Residence, Munich, March 15–April 30, 1977; The Provincial Museum, Bonn, Germany, May 1–18, 1977; The Hermitage, Leningrad, Russian Federation, June 7–July 2, 1977; Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Kiev, Russian Federation, July 11–31, 1977; Pushkin Museum, Moscow, August 10–27, 1977; Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany, September 23–October 15, 1977; Oslo Kuntsforeningen, Oslo, Norway, March 16–April 10, 1978; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, April 20–May 14, 1978; Castle Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, May 18–June 4, 1978; National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, July 1–16, 1978; Thames Art Centre, Chatham, Ontario, Canada, July 21–August 13, 1978; National Exhibition Centre, Timmins, Ontario, Canada, August 23–September 17, 1978; Northern Studio du Nord, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, September 22–October 9, 1978.1978 McMichael
Thunder Bay, National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Group of Seven: Canadian Landscape Painters, July 1–16, 1978, no. 2. Traveled to: Thames Art Centre, Chatham, Ontario, Canada, July 21–August 13, 1978; Timmins Museum, National Exhibition Centre, Timmins, Ontario, Canada, August 23–September 17, 1978; Northern Studio du Nord, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, September 22–October 9, 1978.1998 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. 4.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 100, (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
Duval 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, as Rushing Stream 1915 (repr.)Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 20, 171 (repr.)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, pp. 33–34.McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 266–67.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. 138, 141, 255 (repr. col.)Murray 2004
Murray, Joan. Water: Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2004, pp. 114–15 (repr. col.)Remarks
For many years, the sketch was titled Rushing Stream.
Record last updated April 5, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Spring Foliage on the Muskoka River, Spring 1916 (1916.33)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=475 (accessed on April 18, 2024).