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1915.47
Evening
Alternate title: Evening Clouds
Summer 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; l.r., in graphite, no. 61 Mrs. Harkness; u.r., in red pencil, 31 (circled); u.r., in graphite, #7; u.r., in graphite, 1915; u.l., in graphite, R A Laidlaw; u.l., in graphite, "evening"/ T.Thomson; u.l. quadrant, in red pencil, R A Laidlaw; u.c., in red, Gift to McMichael / R A Laidlaw
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; l.r., in graphite, no. 61 Mrs. Harkness; u.r., in red pencil, 31 (circled); u.r., in graphite, #7; u.r., in graphite, 1915; u.l., in graphite, R A Laidlaw; u.l., in graphite, "evening"/ T.Thomson; u.l. quadrant, in red pencil, R A Laidlaw; u.c., in red, Gift to McMichael / R A Laidlaw
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
W.C. Laidlaw and R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto, 1922
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1966.15.20). Gift of R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto, 1965
Exhibition History
1920 Sarnia (2)
Sarnia Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canadian Paintings, November 1920, no. 35, as Evening (?)1926 AGT Canadian
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 81, lent by R.A. and W.C. Laidlaw.1949 Laidlaw
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, as 31, Evening.1982 McMichael
McMichael Canadian Collection, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, Selections from the McMichael Canadian Collection, December 1982–December 1984. Traveled to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin; The Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee; Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri; Midland Art Council of the Midland Center for the Arts, Inc, Midland, Michigan; South Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, South Dakota; North Dakota State University Art Gallery, Fargo, North Dakota; University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa; The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota; Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.1988 McMichael
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, Six Sketches: Thomas John (Tom) Thomson, Landmarks Series VII, October 16, 1988–January 22, 1989. Traveled to: Woodstock Public Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, July 20–August 20, 1989; Chatham Cultural Centre, Chatham, Ontario, Canada, August 26–October 1, 1989; Sarnia Public Library and Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, November 24, 1989–January 8, 1990; Lindsay Gallery, Lindsey, Ontario, Canada, February 2–24, 1990; Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, March 28–April 22, 1990.1998 McMichael
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, In the Wilds: Canoeing and Canadian Art, June 27–November 5, 1998.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 49, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.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, as Evening Clouds 1915 (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. 30, 170 (repr.)McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 143.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. 132, 202 (repr. col.)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, Pl. 18 (repr. col.), 182.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. ""Evening, Summer 1915 (1915.47)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=326 (accessed on May 9, 2024).