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Catalogue entry
1916.77
Rocky Shore
Summer or fall 1916
Oil on wood
8 7/16 x 10 7/16 in. (21.4 x 26.5 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.c., in graphite, 1916; l.r., in graphite, NG
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.c., in graphite, 1916; l.r., in graphite, NG
Provenance
Estate of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1535). Purchased 1918
Exhibition History
1922 NGC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Special Exhibitions: Pictures and Sketches by Tom Thomson, Illustrations to the "Book of Job" and Dante's "Inferno" by William Blake, February 11–March 31, 1922.1922 Owen Sound
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Women's Art Association Exhibit of Paintings by Tom Thomson, May 1–6, 1922.1924 Wembley
British Empire, Palace of Fine Arts, Wembley Park, London, British Empire Exhibition, Section of Fine Arts, April 23–October 31, 1924, no. 242. Traveled to: Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, November 12–December 12, 1924; Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, December 1924–January 17, 1925; City of Birmingham Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 30–March 31, 1925.1927 Saskatoon
Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 11–12, 1927.1930 Canoe Lake
Camp Ahmek, Canoe Lake, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, August 13, 1930.1932 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 6.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.1958 Los Angeles
National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.1977 Mirvish
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Tom Thomson Exhibition, October 15–November 14, 1977.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 105, (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. 46.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. 297.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 129 (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. 138, 260 (repr. col.)Record last updated February 25, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Rocky Shore, Summer or fall 1916 (1916.77)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=519 (accessed on April 27, 2024).