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1915.74

Ragged Lake

Alternate titles: Northern Lake; Ragged Creek

Fall 1915

Oil on wood panel

8 3/8 x 10 5/16 in. (21.2 x 26.2 cm)

Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, T.T. A Northern Lake / NOT FOR SALE; in graphite, 79 M. Thomson; RAL; in red, 30 (circled)

Art Gallery of Hamilton (63.112.U)

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto

W. C. Laidlaw, Toronto?

R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto

Mrs. G.Y. Douglas

Art Gallery of Hamilton (63.112.U). Gift of Mrs. G.Y. Douglas, 1963

Exhibition History

1937 Thomson

Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 21, as Ragged Creek, lent by Walter C. Laidlaw, Toronto.

1941 Thomson

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, ?

1949 Laidlaw

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 30, as Northern Lake.

1959 CNE

Canadian National Exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Private Collectors' Choice in Canadian Art Sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society, August 1959, as Ragged Creek, from the Collection of W.C. Laidlaw.

Published References

Murray 1999b

Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 52–53 (repr. col.)

Murray 2011

Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 66–67 (repr. col.)

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. ""Ragged Lake, Fall 1915 (1915.74)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=353 (accessed on May 1, 2025).