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Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
Year(s): 1912 »
1912.29
Mississagi
Alternate title: Mississauga
1912
Oil on canvas laid down on board
4 1/2 x 7 in. (11.4 x 17.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON

Inscription verso: Tom Thomson authenticated and dated by (Dr.) James M. MacCallum; 22, IV, 1937
Private collection
Provenance
Mellors Fine Arts/Laing Galleries, Toronto, c.1937?
The Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, Ottawa, ON, and Kent, England, 1940s
Sotheby's Toronto, 3 December 2009, lot 54 as Mississauga
Heffel Auction, 15 May 2013, lot 108
Private collection
Published References
Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 10 (repr.) as Mississauga.
Murray 1991
Murray, Joan. , p. 25 (repr.) as Mississauga.
Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 61 (repr.) as Mississauga.
Murray 1998
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, p. 48 (repr.)
Remarks

Malcolm MacDonald was the United Kingdom High Commissioner in Canada from 1941 to 1946. He also owned Spring,* Algonquin Park, Summer 1914 (1914.45) and Twilight Woods, Fall 1916 (1916.130)

Record last updated May 5, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Mississagi, 1912 (1912.29)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=122 (accessed on April 19, 2024).