loading 
Catalogue entry
© Art Gallery of Ontario
1915.96
Forest, October
Alternate titles: Red Earth; Tangled Timber
Fall 1915
Oil on wood
8 3/8 x 10 9/16 in. (21.3 x 26.9 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; r., in graphite, To Mrs. Newton / 32 Lincoln Ave., Montreal; in black marker, Box / 8
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; r., in graphite, To Mrs. Newton / 32 Lincoln Ave., Montreal; in black marker, Box / 8
Provenance
Estate of artist
Lilias Torrance Newton, Montreal
J.S. McLean, Toronto, 1946
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (L69.50). Gift from the J.S. McLean Collection, 1969, donated by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1988
Exhibition History
1952 McLean
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of J.S. McLean, February 23–March 24, 1952, no. 91.1968 McLean
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The J.S. McLean Collection of Canadian Painting, September 19–October 20, 1968, no. 77. Traveled to: Confederation Centre, Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, November 1–December 1, 1968; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, December 13, 1968–January 12, 1969; London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, January 24–February 23, 1969; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, March 7–April 6, 1969; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, April–May 18, 1969; Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 30–June 29, 1969; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 5–September 13, 1969; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 23–October 26, 1969.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971. (repr. col. cover). Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.1982 AGO
Art Gallery of Ontario, The Canada Packers Collection, February 27–April 11, 1982, no. 59.1982 Berlin
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, OKANADA, December 5, 1982–January 30, 1983, no. 57. Traveled to: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, February 8–March 20, 1983.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 67, (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, 2003.2004 St. Petersburg
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 34, (repr. col.)Published References
Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, p. 56 (repr. col. cover).Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 164 (repr. col.)Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 68 as 1916 (repr. col.)Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, pp. 71 (repr.), 73.Murray 1994b
Murray, Joan. Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1994, pp. 66–67 (repr. col.)Murray 1999b
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 92–93 (repr. col.)Gillmor 2001
Gillmor, Don. Canada: A People's History. Volume II. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 2001.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. 82, 133, 220 (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. ""Forest, October, Fall 1915 (1915.96)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=375 (accessed on May 2, 2025).