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Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
Year(s): 1913 »   //  1914 »
1913-1914.04
Grey Day in the North
Winter 1913–14
Oil on canvas
8 11/16 x 28 1/16 in. (22 x 71.3 cm)
Inscriptions verso: c., newspaper article with printing in black ball point pen, Toronto
Daily Star, 4 February 1926; l.l. label on frame, in graphite, 94
Provenance
Gift from the artist to his parents, Owen Sound
Henrietta Thomson, Owen Sound, by descent
Jessie Fisk, Toronto, by descent
Helen and David Young, Don Mills, Ontario, by descent
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1977 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 16.
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. 28.
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. 18, (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
Toronto Daily Star 1926a
"Tom Thomson's Aged Father Typifies Son's Rugged Scenes." Toronto Daily Star, 4 February 1926.
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. 18 (repr. detail), 170 (repr. col.)
Record last updated May 11, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Grey Day in the North, Winter 1913–14 (1913-1914.04)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=169 (accessed on April 30, 2025).