1915.05
Winter Morning
Alternate titles: Early Winter; First Snow
Spring 1915
Oil on wood (verso has a bevelled edge)
8 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.5 x 26.6 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: in graphite, Winter Morning / Tom Thomson (in square) [the artist's handwriting]; c., estate stamp; u.c., in graphite, Spring 1915 JM [Dr. J.M. MacCallum's handwriting]; u.r., in graphite, Not for Sale (underlined) [Lawren Harris's handwriting]; u.r., in red, 42 (circled); u.r., in graphite, #9; c.r., inscribed indistinctly in red, Laidlaw?; l.r., in graphite, No. 152 Mrs. Harkness; l.r., in graphite, #7; l.l., in graphite 1 (circled); c.l., in graphite WC?; c.l., in red, 14; ; u.l., in graphite, #3 (circled); u.l., in graphite, 16; u.l., in ink, A.M.; u.c.l., in green ink?, 33
Inscription verso: in graphite, Winter Morning / Tom Thomson (in square) [the artist's handwriting]; c., estate stamp; u.c., in graphite, Spring 1915 JM [Dr. J.M. MacCallum's handwriting]; u.r., in graphite, Not for Sale (underlined) [Lawren Harris's handwriting]; u.r., in red, 42 (circled); u.r., in graphite, #9; c.r., inscribed indistinctly in red, Laidlaw?; l.r., in graphite, No. 152 Mrs. Harkness; l.r., in graphite, #7; l.l., in graphite 1 (circled); c.l., in graphite WC?; c.l., in red, 14; ; u.l., in graphite, #3 (circled); u.l., in graphite, 16; u.l., in ink, A.M.; u.c.l., in green ink?, 33
Private Collection, Vancouver
Provenance
Private collection
Private Collection, Vancouver
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no.42.
Canadian National Exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Private Collectors' Choice in Canadian Art Sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society, August 1959.
Published References
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 28 (recto and verso repr. col.), 40–41 (repr. col.)
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. ""Winter Morning, Spring 1915 (1915.05)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=284 (accessed on May 3, 2025).