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Catalogue entry
1906.08
Decorative Landscape: "Blessing" by Robert Burns
Alternate titles: Burn's Blessing; Triptych (letter from Brian Stratton OHF to M Mitchell, TTAG 1987)
c.1906
Watercolour, and ink over graphite on pasteboard
12 3/16 x 9 1/8 in. (31 x 23.1 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., Tom Thomson
Provenance
Ralph Thomson, Seattle, by descent to one of the children of Ralph Thomson and Ruth Shaw
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (988.011.77). Gift of an anonymous donor 1976. Donated by the Ontario Heritage Trust, Toronto, 1988
Exhibition History
1977 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 35.2010 Kleinburg
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011, as 1909.Published References
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 33 (repr. col.)Reid and Hill 2002
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 51–52, 329n19 (repr.) as Burns’ Blessing.Silcox 2002
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, p. 25 (repr. col.)Remarks
A letter of Henry Thomson, 19 October 1946, Library and Archives, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, mentions the work.
Record last updated May 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Decorative Landscape: "Blessing" by Robert Burns, c.1906 (1906.08)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=32 (accessed on May 1, 2025).