1907.09
The Old William McKeen Home, Owen Sound
Alternate titles: Old McKeen Home; The Old William McKeen Home, Leith
c.1907
Ink on paper
6 5/8 x 8 3/16 in. (16.7 x 20.7 cm)
Provenance
Published References
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 13, fig. 13 (repr.)
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 147 as The Old McKeen Home.
Remarks
Louise Thomson Henry wrote Blodwen Davies, 11 March 1931, that she had a pen & ink sketch, 6 1/2 x 8 inches of McKeen’s house across the road from the Thomson home done about the same time as the watercolour of a storm over a house, Stormy Weather, Library and Archives Canada, Blodwen Davies fonds (MG30 D38).
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery dates this sketch to c.1908
Record last updated March 29, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""The Old William McKeen Home, Owen Sound, c.1907 (1907.09)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=41 (accessed on May 3, 2025).