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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1914.75
Shack in the North Country
Alternate title: Shack
Fall 1914
Oil on wood
8 11/16 x 10 11/16 in. (22 x 27.2 cm)
Inscription verso: u.l., in graphite, 39; u.c., in graphite, Tom Thomson Shack in the / North Country / By Tom Tomson [sic]; u.r., in ink, -11; c.r., by artist in ink, on paper (cut out from invoice?), tom thomson; l.c., in ink, The property of A.J. Boughton
Provenance
A.J. Boughton, Toronto
Mrs. A.J. Boughton, Toronto
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (53/13). Gift from the Fund of the T. Eaton Co. Ltd. for Canadian Works of Art, 1953
Exhibition History
1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, lent by A. Boughton.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 31, ill. in b/w. Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 34, ill. in color. 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, 2003.2004 St. Petersburg
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 16.Published References
Bradfield 1970
Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, pp. 443–44 as The Shack.Little 1970
Little, William T. The Tom Thomson Mystery. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1970, pp. 34, 212, 216.Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 34–35, 70 (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. 127, 148, 187 (repr. col.)Remarks
Woodland, Algonquin, Spring 1914 (1914.11) also belonged to Boughton.
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. ""Shack in the North Country, Fall 1914 (1914.75)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=249 (accessed on April 30, 2025).