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Catalogue entry
1915.36
Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks
Alternate title: Northern River
Spring 1915
Oil on panel
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., T.T. (incised)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Laing Galleries, 1945
H.S. Southam, Ottawa
G. Hamilton Southam, France and Portland, Ontario
Sotheby's Toronto, 20 November 2006, lot 57
Loch Gallery,Winnipeg
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, asone of ten untitled Thomson sketches loaned by H.S. Southam, Ottawa.1944 Southam
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paintings Lent by H.S. Southam, May 27–July 2, 1944, no. 82.Published References
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 65.Remarks
The sketch appears in an installation photograph of Southam 1944 (Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa). It also has been titled Northern River.
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. ""Burnt Area with Ragged Rocks, Spring 1915 (1915.36)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=315 (accessed on May 25, 2025).