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Support: on canvas »
Year(s): 1914 »   //  1915 »
1914-1915.01
Split Rock, Georgian Bay
Winter 1914–15
Oil on canvas
36 3/8 x 45 3/8 in. (92.4 x 115.2 cm)
Exhibition History
Ontario Society of Artists, Art Museum of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Society of Artists Forty-third Annual Exhibition, March 13–April 10, 1915, no. 126.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 24.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 17, as lent by the Town of Kitchener.
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 27, lent by the Ladies' Committee, Kitchener.
Lakehead College, University Centre, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven and Lake Superior, November 19–December 12, 1964.
Inaugural Loan Exhibition, Center for Inter-American Relations, Art Gallery, New York, Artists of the Western Hemisphere, Precursors of Modernism: 1860 - 1930, September 19–November 12, 1967, no. 32, (repr.)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 39, (repr.) 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.
National Gallery of Canada, Yan- Huang Museum of Art, Beijing, Terre sauvage: The Canadian Landscape and the Group of Seven, April 19–May 20, 2001, no. 62. Traveled to: Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, June 2–24, 2001; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guang-zhou, China, July 10–August 10, 2001; Guanshanyue Art Gallery, Shenzhen, China, August 20–September 23, 2001.
Published References
Comfort, Charles. "Georgian Bay Legacy." Canadian Art 8, no. 3 (Spring 1951), p. 107.
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 299 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 36, 72 (repr.)
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. 129, 313, 330n35.
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. ""Split Rock, Georgian Bay, Winter 1914–15 (1914-1915.01)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=268 (accessed on March 29, 2024).