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1915.85
Crib and Rapids
Alternate titles: Dam; Edge of the Log Run; Log Run
Fall 1915
Oil on wood
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; u.c., in graphite, 1915 Crib - River with rapids and logs spill [?] each side Entrance to Aura Lee Lake from Little Cauchon Lake; u.r., on blue bordered label, Crib and Rapids AYJ 3 Montreal Art Assn; u.l., in graphite, reserved Studio Bldg.; c., in black, S.B.; c., in crayon, Sketch #28; u.l., in graphite, No. 5 Mrs Harkness; u.l., in graphite, 8. Frame: u.l., in graphite, 11; u.l., label in ink, Property of Mrs. H.A. Dyde / 9910 ¬¬- 115 Street / Edmonton; in ink on backing below label, 440 Roxborough Road / Rockcliffe, Ottawa
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.c., in graphite, 1915 Crib - River with rapids and logs spill [?] each side Entrance to Aura Lee Lake from Little Cauchon Lake; u.r., on blue bordered label, Crib and Rapids AYJ 3 Montreal Art Assn; u.l., in graphite, reserved Studio Bldg.; c., in black, S.B.; c., in crayon, Sketch #28; u.l., in graphite, No. 5 Mrs Harkness; u.l., in graphite, 8. Frame: u.l., in graphite, 11; u.l., label in ink, Property of Mrs. H.A. Dyde / 9910 ¬¬- 115 Street / Edmonton; in ink on backing below label, 440 Roxborough Road / Rockcliffe, Ottawa
Private Collection, Calgary
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto
Alan and Bobby Plaunt, Ottawa, 1939
Mrs. H.A. Dyde (Bobby Plaunt), Edmonton, 1941
Private collection, Calgary, 1967, by descent
Private Collection, Calgary
Exhibition History
1919 Thomson
Arts Club, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Thomson, March 1, 1919, no. 3. Traveled to: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, March 25–April 12, 1919.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, as sketch, lent by Alan Plaunt, Ottawa.1955 Victoria
Arts Centre of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, The Group of Seven, February 15–27, 1955, no. 3, as The Dam 1917.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 62, (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
Lismer 1947
Lismer, Arthur. "Tom Thomson 1877-1917: A Tribute to a Canadian Painter." Canadian Art 5, no. 2 (Christmas 1947), p. 60 as Edge of the Log Run.Buchanan 1950
Buchanan, Donald W. The Growth of Canadian Painting. London and Toronto: Collins, 1950, fig. 19 (repr.)Hubbard 1962
Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, as Eedge of the Log Run, pl. 23 (repr.)Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 82 (repr. col.) as Log Run.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. 34, 132, 215 (repr. col.), 321n59.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, pp. 183–184.Record last updated May 9, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Crib and Rapids, Fall 1915 (1915.85)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=364 (accessed on May 11, 2025).