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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1915.117
A Rapid
Fall 1915
Oil on panel
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; in green ink, A Rapid / Tom Thomson [artist's handwriting]; in graphite, Loaned by Lawren Harris; in graphite, [Not?] For Sale (crossed out); label, AGT 864
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in green ink, A Rapid / Tom Thomson [artist's handwriting]; in graphite, Loaned by Lawren Harris; in graphite, [Not?] For Sale (crossed out); label, AGT 864
Provenance
Lawren Harris, Toronto, by gift from the artist?
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (864). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawren Harris, 1927
Exhibition History
1967 Stratford
Rothman's Art Gallery of Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Ten Decades 1867 - 1967 Ten Painters, August 4–September 3, 1967, no. 17. Traveled to: New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, fall 1967.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, VII (repr. col.) 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 Berlin
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, OKANADA, December 5, 1982–January 30, 1983, no. 56. Traveled to: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, February 8–March 20, 1983.1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 117, (repr.)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. 24.Published References
Housser 1926
Housser, Frederick Broughton. A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1926, p. 118 possibly as the work he described as a cool gnome–like spot "where wool–white water spills into miniature canyons.Bradfield 1970
Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, p. 443 (repr.)Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 40, 46n15, 56, 59 (repr. col.)Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 74, 75 (repr. col.)Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, pp. 44–45 (repr. col.)Wistow 1999
Wistow, David, and Kelly McKinley. Meet the Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1999, p. 12 (repr. col.)Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 80–81 (repr. col.)Record last updated July 4, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""A Rapid, Fall 1915 (1915.117)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=397 (accessed on May 2, 2024).