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Year(s): 1915 »
1915.21
Wild Cherry Trees in Blossom
Spring 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription verso: label, Laing Galleries; A.O. Gibbons; A.P.L.; Harkness
Private collection, Toronto
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Alan O. Gibbons, Ottawa, 1943
Heffel Auction, 23 November 2007, lot 31
Private collection, Toronto
Published References
Murray 1991
Murray, Joan. , p. 36 (repr.)
Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, pp. 70, 72 (repr.)
Murray 2002
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 92–93 (repr. col.)
Remarks

Thomson primed the work with terracotta coloured paint.

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. ""Wild Cherry Trees in Blossom, Spring 1915 (1915.21)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=300 (accessed on May 6, 2025).