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Catalogue entry
1915.45
Sunset
Alternate title: Sunset II
Summer 1915
Oil on wood panel
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.3 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, Sunset; in graphite, u.r.q., Reserved – Mackenzie[sic]; in graphite, l.r., No. 29 (19?) Mrs. Harkness / Mrs. Williams
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, Sunset; in graphite, u.r.q., Reserved – Mackenzie[sic]; in graphite, l.r., No. 29 (19?) Mrs. Harkness / Mrs. Williams
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
S.J. Williams, Kitchener, Ontario, 1926
Mrs. S.J. Williams, Preston, Ontario, by 1937
Esther Williams, Preston and Toronto by 1941
Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1960?
Robert and Signe McMichael, Kleinburg
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1966.16.69). Gift of the founders, Robert and Signe McMichael, 1966
Exhibition History
1937 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 30, lent by Mrs. S.J. Williams, Preston.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, as one sketch, lent by Miss Esther Williams, Preston.1956 Thomson
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson Exhibition, 1877 - 1917, September–October 1956, no. 34, as Sunset II, lent by Miss D. Esther Williams, Toronto.1990 McMichael
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Selections from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, October 5–November 18, 1990, no. 28.1998 McMichael
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, In the Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art, June 27–November 5, 1998, as 1916.Published References
Duval 1967
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom
Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, (repr.)Duval 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr.)Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 26, 171 (repr.)Boulet 1982
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, pp. 198–199 (repr. col.)McMichael 1989
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 30 (repr. col.) as Anonymous Donor.King 2010
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, p. 182.Remarks
Mrs. S.J. Williams was also one of the donors of Split Rock, Georgian Bay, Winter 1914–15 (1914-1915.01)
Record last updated April 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Sunset, Summer 1915 (1915.45)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=324 (accessed on April 19, 2024).