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Michelle Wilson
1904.03
Sketch: Woman's Head
Alternate titles: Early Miniatures; Early Miniatures?; Miniatures
c.1904
Ink on birchbark
5 1/2 x 2 11/16 in. (14 x 6.9 cm)
Exhibition History
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 19, as Early Miniatures?
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, First Anniversary Exhibition, May 24–June 9, 1968, no. 8.
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Paintings by Tom Thomson: The Second Anniversary Exhibition, May 23–June 15, 1969, no. 36, as Miniatures.
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 36.
Published References
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 36 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. , p. 17 (repr.)
Remarks
Fraser Thomson wrote Blodwen Davies, 19 May 1930, Library, and Archives Canada, Blodwen Davies fonds (MG30 D38), about a sketch of a woman’s head he had picked out of the garbage where Tom Thomson had thrown it. This work may have been done in Seattle at about the same time as that sketch.
Record last updated March 28, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Sketch: Woman's Head, c.1904 (1904.03)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=10 (accessed on May 3, 2025).