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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
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto
W.C. Laidlaw, Toronto
R.A. Laidlaw, Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1968.12). Gift of R.A. Laidlaw, 1968
Exhibition History
1926 AGT Canadian
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 91, as Purple Distance?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. 23, as Yellow Trees, Fall 1914?2011 Dulwich
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 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr. col.)Mellen 1970
Mellen, Peter. The Group of Seven. Toronto, Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1970, p. 56 (repr. col.)Hunkin 1971
Hunkin, Harry. There Is No Finality…A Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto: Burns & MacEachern, 1971, p. 74 (repr. col.)Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 29, 172 (repr. col.)McMichael 1983
p. 27 (repr. col.)McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 269.McMichael 1989
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 1992
Pryke, Kenneth G., and Walter C. Soderlund. Profiles of Canada. Mississauga: Copp Clark Pitman, 1992, p. 329.Wistow 1999
Wistow, David, and Kelly McKinley. Meet the Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1999, p. 34 (repr. col.)Murray 1999b
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 58–59 (repr. col.)Dejardin 2011
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 May 5, 2024).