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Year(s): 1914 »
1914.18
Parry Sound Harbour
30 May 1914
Oil on wood
8 9/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.7 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., in red , TOM THOMSON

Inscription verso: u.c., ink, Parry Sound Harbour - May 30th, 1914; u.r., label, AGT Dec. 31/40
Provenance
Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, 1914
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (4664). Bequest of Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, 1944
Exhibition History
1919 Thomson
Arts Club, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Thomson, March 1, 1919, no. 28, lent by MacCallum. Traveled to: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, March 25–April 12, 1919.
1926 AGT Canadian
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 53.
1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.
1969 MacCallum
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Jackman Gift of Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some of the Members of the Group of Seven, January 25–February 23, 1969, no. 60, as 1914.
1970 NGC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 45, (repr.) Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.
1976 Saint John
Department of New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Seven Plus: A Selection of Work by the Group of Seven Arranged by Department of New Brunswick Museum, June 5–July 30, 1976, no. 12. Traveled to: The Art Gallery, Memorial University Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, August 15–September 12, 1976 (Exhibition title: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson); Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, September 20–October 17, 1976 (Exhibition title: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson); The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, December 3, 1976–January 2, 1977 (Exhibition title: The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson).
1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 105.
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. 26, (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
Gazette 1919
"A Painter of the Wilds." Gazette (Montreal), 28 March 1919.
Hubbard 1960b
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 302.
Reid 1969
Reid, Dennis. The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. HR. Jackman Gift of the Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some Members of the Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1969. Exhibition catalogue, p. 43.
Reid 1970
Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, p. 75 (repr.)
Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, p. 31.
Reid 1973
Reid, Dennis. A Concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973, p. 142 (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. 125, 179 (repr. col.)
King 2010
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, pp. 137–38.
Record last updated March 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Parry Sound Harbour, 30 May 1914 (1914.18)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=192 (accessed on April 29, 2024).