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1914.21

Giant's Tomb, Georgian Bay

Spring or summer 1914

Oil on cardboard

8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)

Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; r., in graphite, Giant's Tomb / Georgian Bay 1914

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1543)

Provenance

Estate of the artist

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1543). Purchased 1918

Exhibition History

1922 Thomson NGC

1922.

1922 Thomson Owen Sound

1922.

1927 Saskatoon

Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 11–12, 1927.

1930 Canoe Lake

Camp Ahmek, Canoe Lake, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, August 13, 1930.

1932 Thomson

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no.6

1941 Thomson

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.

1955 Thomson

National Gallery of Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Tom Thomson Travelling Exhibition: Sketches and Painting from the National Gallery of Canada Collection, November 10–December 6, 1955. Traveled to: Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, December 13, 1955–January 1, 1956; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, February 2–22, 1956; Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, March 1–8, 1956; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 13–25, 1956; University of British Columbia, Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 3–28, 1956; Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 5–25, 1956; Saskatoon Art Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, June 1–21, 1956; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, July 1–30, 1956; Sarnia Public Library, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, August 1956; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Association, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 8, 1956; Yarmouth Art Society, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 31–November 12, 1956; Colchester Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.), Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 15–24, 1956; Louisburg Chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.), Louisburg, Nova Scotia, November 27–December 6, 1956; Amherst Art Association, Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, December 10, 1956–December 24, 1965; Moncton Society of Art, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, January 24–February 2, 1957; Fredericton Art Club, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, February 6–20, 1957; University of New Brunswich, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, February 20–March 6, 1957; Art Centre, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, March 9–20, 1957; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 4–18, 1957; Nova Scotia College of Art, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 18–May 1, 1957; Glenhyrst Gardens, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, June 22–July 2, 1957; London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, July–September 1957; Willistead Library and Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 1–November 5, 1957; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 15–December 15, 1957.

1956 Thomson

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson Exhibition, 1877 - 1917, September–October 1956, no. 24.

1957 Thomson Windsor

Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 38.

1958 Los Angeles

National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.

1967 Stratford

Rothman's Art Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Ten Decades 1867 - 1967 Ten Painters, August 4–September 3, 1967, no. 21. Traveled to: New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, fall 1967.

1970 NGC

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 44, (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. 11. 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).

Published References

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. 298.

Reid 1970

Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, p. 75 (repr.)

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. ""Giant's Tomb, Georgian Bay, Spring or summer 1914 (1914.21)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=195 (accessed on June 2, 2025).