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1915.91
Backwater
Fall 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 9/16 x 10 9/16 in. (21.8 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription verso: t., in graphite, By Tom Thompson [sic] 1915; c.l., in graphite 5198 (crossed out); c.l.q., in graphite, 37020 2 texture as Cassons / Campbell 6th [or 600]; c.r., 4991 (crossed out)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Laing Galleries, Toronto?
Mrs. Irving H. Campbell, Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1981.39). Purchased with funds donated by R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto, 1970
Exhibition History
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. 64, (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 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr. col.)Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 33, 171 (repr. col.)McMichael 1983
p. 31 (repr. col.)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. 133, 217 (repr. col.)Record last updated April 5, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Backwater, Fall 1915 (1915.91)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=370 (accessed on May 9, 2025).