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Medium: Oil »
Support: on wood panel »
Year(s): 1915 »
1915.39
Birch Grove, Algonquin Park
Alternate titles: Birches; Spring Birches, Canoe Lake
Spring 1915
Oil on wood panel
8 11/16 x 10 5/8 in. (22 x 27 cm)
Inscription verso: estate stamp; l.l., in ink, E. WHALEY
Exhibition History
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 59, lent by Mrs. E. Whaley, Toronto.
Published References
Laing, G. Blair. Memoirs of an Art Dealer. Vol. 1. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979, fig. 65 252 as Spring Birches, Canoe Lake (repr. col.)
Shields, Conal ed. Ken Thomson The Collector: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Skylet Publishing and The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2008, p. 141 (repr.col.)
Remarks

Once had Tom Thompson written on it - Laing had it removed; sketch is related to Evening, Canoe Lake? 

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. ""Birch Grove, Algonquin Park, Spring 1915 (1915.39)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=318 (accessed on May 3, 2025).