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Catalogue entry
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
Inscription verso: Rock, Birches and Sunlight
Provenance
Shannon Fraser, Algonquin Park
Hart House, University of Toronto (142). Purchased with income from the Harold and Murray Wrong Memorial Fund, 1929
Exhibition History
1977 AGO
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. 26.1987 Hart House
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 1929
Lismer, Arthur. "Art Appreciation." In Year Book of the Arts in Canada, 1928-1929, Bertram Brooker. Toronto: Macmillan, 1929, p. 62.Harper 1955
Harper, J. Russell. Canadian Paintings in Hart House. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955, p. 22 (repr.)Adamson 1969
Adamson, Jeremy. The Hart House Collection of Canadian: Painting. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969, p. 108 (repr.) as "1916–7".Siddall 1987
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 May 1, 2024).