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Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
Year(s): 1916 »   //  1917 »
1916-1917.10
Woodland Waterfall
Alternate titles: The Waterfall; Waterfall
Winter 1916–17
Oil on canvas
48 x 52 3/16 in. (121.9 x 132.5 cm)
Inscription verso: label, Art Gallery of Hamilton
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 27, as The Waterfall.
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 1, lent by the artist's family, Owen Sound.
Mellors Galleries, Toronto, Exhibition of the Work of Tom Thomson and J.E.H. MacDonald, February 1–18, 1939, no. 38.
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canadian Painting and Sculpture, Canadian Water Colours, Canadian Graphic Art, British and Canadian Applied Art, Canadian Photography, August 25–September 9, 1939, no. 219, as The Waterfall, lent by Mellors Fine Art Galleries.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, 0, no. X (repr. col.) 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.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 16–September 16, 1990.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 126, (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.
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011.
Published References
MacCallum, J.M. "Tom Thomson: Painter of the North." Canadian Magazine 50, no. 5 (March 1918), p. 379 (repr.)
Mortimer-Lamb, Harold. "Canadian Artists and the War." The Studio 65, no. 270 (September 1915), p. 124 (repr.) as The Waterfall.
Saturday Night. "A Tom Thomson 'Waterfall.'" Saturday Night 52, no. 36 (10 July 1937), (repr.)
Bridle, Augustus. "Tom Thomson Show Attracts Hundreds." Toronto Daily Star, 15 March 1937.
"Two Painters Represented at Art Show." Evening Telegram (Toronto), 8 February 1939.
Mellen, Peter. The Group of Seven. Toronto, Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1970, pp. 58–59 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 42, 56, 61 (repr. col.)
Purdie, James. "Gallery Gets Major Thomson Work." Globe and Mail (Toronto), 17 June 1976.
"Tom Thomson Painting Fetches Record $285,000." Toronto Star, 17 June 1976.
Edinborough, Arnold. "Want to (Help) Buy a Tom Thomson? Here's Your Chance." Financial Post, 10 April 1976.
Edinborough, Arnold. "Garfield Weston Makes Gift of 'Waterfall' to Gallery." Financial Post, 19 June 1976.
p. 23 (repr. col.)
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 199, 205, 327–38, 340–43.
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, pp. 74, 76–77 (repr. col.)
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 29(repr. col.)
Thom, Ian M. Tom Thomson. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue.
Murray, Joan. Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1994, pp. 72–73 (repr. col.)
Davis, Ann. Thomson, Thomas John (Tom). Vol. 14 1911-1920, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, p. 998.
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. 139, 281 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, One Hundred Masterworks. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2006, pp. 184–85 (repr. col.)
Remarks

In his list of 7 May 1937, Martin Baldwin wrote that the picture was “unfinished at top - did not “come off.” He dated it as 1915. Charles C. Hill, however, believes that Thomson finished the painting, 2002, 139.

Record last updated May 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Woodland Waterfall, Winter 1916–17 (1916-1917.10)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=629 (accessed on March 18, 2024).