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Catalogue entry
1905.07
Decorative Landscape, Quotation from Henry van Dyke
c.1905
Ink and watercolour on paper
14 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (37.5 x 27.3 cm)
Inscription recto: c., THE FOOT PATH of [sic] PEACE (and etc.); l.r.; TT
Provenance
Mary Elizabeth McIntire (née Barry), Ottawa
Mark of Tymes Antiques, Edmonton
Private collection, Vancouver
Heffel Auction, 23 November 2007, lot 75 as c.1915 [sic]
Canadian War Museum, Ottawa (20070174-002)
Published References
Murray 1998
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, p. 19 (repr.)Remarks
Mary. E. McIntire was rooming in the same boarding house as Thomson in Ottawa. She saved this work from the garbage where Thomson had thrown it because he had made the mistake of not leaving a space between the two words “despise nothing.”
Record last updated May 10, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Decorative Landscape, Quotation from Henry van Dyke, c.1905 (1905.07)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=20 (accessed on May 2, 2025).