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1915.58
Wildflowers
Alternate title: Wild Flowers
Summer 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 9/16 in. (21.6 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, 1st class; u.l., in ink, H; u.c., in graphite, J.M.; u.r., in ink, AM; u.r., in ink, PROPERTY OF / HARKNESS; l.r., in graphite, 89 M. Thomson; on label (removed), [in orange pencil] T-27/ [in ink] M.Tweedale / Toronto
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, 1st class; u.l., in ink, H; u.c., in graphite, J.M.; u.r., in ink, AM; u.r., in ink, PROPERTY OF / HARKNESS; l.r., in graphite, 89 M. Thomson; on label (removed), [in orange pencil] T-27/ [in ink] M.Tweedale / Toronto
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 45, as Wild Flowers, lent by Mrs. W.M. Tweedale, Toronto (name repr. as Twaddle in catalogue).
Mellors Galleries, Toronto, Exhibition of the Work of Tom Thomson and J.E.H. MacDonald, February 1–18, 1939, no. 48, (?)
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Canadian Painting, March 18–April 29, 1984. (repr.)
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 54, (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, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 18, 172 as 1917 (repr. col. cover).
Weiers, Margaret. "Tom Thomson's Sister Still Does Two Sketches on 'Good Day.'" Toronto Daily Star, 14 March 1964.
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 5, 228 (repr. col.)
p. 14 (repr. col.)
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 268–70.
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 33 (repr. col.)
Booth, David. Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and The Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995, p. 10 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 13, 98–99 (repr. col.)
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. 133, 207 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, One Hundred Masterworks. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2006, pp. 178–79 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 52–53 (repr. col.)
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. ""Wildflowers, Summer 1915 (1915.58)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=337 (accessed on April 24, 2024).