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Catalogue entry
1914.03
Hoar Frost
Alternate title: Frost, Canoe Lake
Spring 1914
Oil on canvas on paperboard
8 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (22.4 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription verso: u.l., in graphite, Hoar-Frost; u.c., in graphite, 1913; u.r., on label in red, T. 49, and in graphite, Carmichael; c., in ballpoint, This is one of the finest Tom Thomsons / I have ever seen. A.Y.Jackson; l.l., in ballpoint, With love to Dorothy - / - as a wedding gift - / March 2nd-1963 / Charles; l.r., in ballpoint, Tom Thomson gave this sketch to Frank Carmichael / as a wedding gift in 1915 / After Frank's death it was / purchased by / C.A.G. Matthews and has / never been shown / It is a fine example of Thomson's / mastery of subtle painting / A.J. Casson / I purchased this for C.A.G.M.
Provenance
Franklin Carmichael (gift on his wedding day, 15 September 1915)
Estate of Franklin Carmichael, Toronto
C.A.G. Matthews, per A.J. Casson after 1945
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1968.25.21). Gift of C.A.G. Matthews, 1968
Exhibition History
1937 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 60, lent by Mr. Frank Carmichael, Toronto.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. 22, (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
Duval 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, as 1915 (repr.)Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 28, 171 (repr.)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. 124, 175 (repr. col.)Record last updated April 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Hoar Frost, Spring 1914 (1914.03)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=177 (accessed on May 1, 2025).