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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1915.22
Wild Cherry Trees in Blossom
Alternate title: Cherry Trees in Bloom
Spring 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, No. 96. Mrs. Harkness; in graphite, 1915; in graphite, first class; J & H; in ink, Property of Harkness
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, No. 96. Mrs. Harkness; in graphite, 1915; in graphite, first class; J & H; in ink, Property of Harkness
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 43, as Cherry Trees in Bloom, lent by the Art Gallery of Toronto.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Pictures Purchased by the Albert H. Robson Fund, October 1947.
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, November 1948, no. 43.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 56, (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.
Published References
Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, p. 441.
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 38, 76 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, pp. 70, 72 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 94–95 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 44–45 (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. ""Wild Cherry Trees in Blossom, Spring 1915 (1915.22)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=301 (accessed on May 6, 2025).