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1915.103
Tamaracks
Alternate titles: Purple Distance?; Yellow Trees
Fall 1915
Oil on wood panel
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.3 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription verso: u.r., in graphite, OK GT; (in 1970) u.r., in red pencil, 23 (circled)?; u.r., in graphite?, T 30; in graphite and ink, H.M. Tweedale; u.r.q., in black pencil, M. Tweedale; u.l., in graphite, O.S.; u.l.q., in graphite, Harkness (crossed out)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 91, as Purple Distance?
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, ?
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 23, as Yellow Trees, Fall 1914?
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, October 19, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 16, Pl. 19 (repr. col.) Traveled to: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, January 29–May 13, 2012; The Groninger Museum, Groninger, the Netherlands, June 3–October 28, 2012.
Published References
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr. col.)
Mellen, Peter. The Group of Seven. Toronto, Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1970, p. 56 (repr. col.)
Hunkin, Harry. There Is No Finality…A Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1971, p. 74 (repr. col.)
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 29, 172 (repr. col.)
p. 27 (repr. col.)
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 269.
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 22 (repr. col.)
Pryke, Kenneth G., and Walter C. Soderlund. Profiles of Canada. Mississauga: Copp Clark Pitman, 1992, p. 329.
Wistow, David, and Kelly McKinley. Meet the Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1999, p. 34 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 58–59 (repr. col.)
Dejardin, Ian. Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 86 (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. ""Tamaracks, Fall 1915 (1915.103)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=382 (accessed on April 25, 2024).