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Support: on panel »
Year(s): 1914 »
1914.84
Rock, Birches and Sunlight
Fall 1914
Oil on panel
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., Tom Thomson (incised)

Inscription verso: Rock, Birches and Sunlight
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canadian Paintings in the University of Toronto: An Exhibition in Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the University of Toronto, 1977, no. 26.
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto, The Prevailing influence: Hart House and the Group of Seven, 1919 - 1953, September 8–October 9, 1987, no. 21, ill. in b/w. Traveled to: Centennial Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, October 29–December 13, 1987; University Art Gallery, Mount St. Vincent, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, January 8–February 7, 1988; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, March 5–April 1988; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, April 23–June 5, 1988; Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada, June 25–September 2, 1988.
Published References
Lismer, Arthur. "Art Appreciation." In Year Book of the Arts in Canada, 1928-1929, Bertram Brooker. Toronto: Macmillan, 1929, p. 62.
Harper, J. Russell. Canadian Paintings in Hart House. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955, p. 22 (repr.)
Adamson, Jeremy. The Hart House Collection of Canadian: Painting. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969, p. 108 (repr.) as "1916–7".
Siddall, Catherine D. The Prevailing Influence: Hart House and the Group of Seven, 1919-1953. Oakville, ON: Oakville Galleries, 1987. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 53, 60 (repr.)
Remarks

This work was stolen from the Hart House 1987 exhibition while the show was at Le Musée d’art de Joliette in Joliette, Quebec.

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. ""Rock, Birches and Sunlight, Fall 1914 (1914.84)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=258 (accessed on April 18, 2024).