1915-1916.06
Autumn's Garland
Alternate titles: Nature's Garland; Woodland Garland
Winter 1915–16
Oil on canvas
48 1/4 x 52 1/16 in. (122.5 x 132.2 cm)
Exhibition History
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Paintings by Canadian Artists, Loaned by the National Gallery of Canada, November 1918, no. 33. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, February 1919; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 4–May 1, 1919; Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, May 17–April 12, 1919; Hackley Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 3.
1922.
British Empire, Palace of Fine Arts, Wembley Park, London, British Empire Exhibition, Section of Fine Arts, April 23–October 31, 1924. Traveled to: Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, November 12–December 12, 1924; Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, December 1924–January 17, 1925; City of Birmingham Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 30–March 31, 1925.
Musée & du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d'art canadien, April 10–May 10, 1927, no. 238.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 4.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, hors cat.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 2.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 107, (repr.) 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.
Elvehjem Art Centre, Madison, Wisconsin, Canadian Landscape Painting 1670 - 1930: The Artist and the Land, April 11–May 23, 1973, no. 49, (repr.) Traveled to: Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 15–August 1, 1973; University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, August 20–October 7, 1973.
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, OKANADA, December 5, 1982–January 30, 1983, no. 55, (repr.) Traveled to: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, February 8–March 20, 1983.
National Gallery of Canada; Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Museo de Arte Moderno de México, Mexico City, Tierra salvaje: La pintura paisajistica canadiense y el Grupo de los Siete, August 26–October 31, 1999, no. 65, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Prins Eugens Waldemarsudd, Stockholm, February 10–April 2, 2000 (Title: Terre sauvage: Kanadensiskt landskapfmaleri och Group of Seven); Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 15–June 12, 2000 (Title: Terre sauvage: Canadisk landskapsmaleri og The Group of Seven,); Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway, July 29–September 23, 2000 (Title: Terre sauvage: Canadisk landskapsmaleri og Group of Seven); Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborgs, Sweden, October 14–December 3, 2000.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 79, (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.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 38.
Published References
Brown, Eric. "The National Gallery of Canada: A Story of Struggle and Achievement in Establishing a Little-known Institution." Arts & Decoration (New York) 17, no. 1 (May 1922), (repr.)
Dick, Stewart. "The National Gallery of Canada: Tom Thomson." Saturday Night 43, no. 42 (1 September 1928), as Nature’s Garland.
Saunders, Audrey. Algonquin Story. Toronto: Department of Lands and Forests, 1947, p. 172.
Jackson, A.Y. A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of À.Y. Jackson. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1958, p. 42.
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 293 (repr.)
Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, p. 11.
Hubbard, R.H. The Development of Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1963, p. 89.
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 19, 44, 86, 96 (repr.)
Reid. Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine. 5, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: 1975, p. 37 as 1916–17.
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, pp. 214–215 (repr. colour).
Murray, Joan. Confessions of a Curator: Adventures in Canadian Art. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1996, p. 119.
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, pp. 67, 68, 79, 80 (repr.)
Davis, Ann. Thomson, Thomas John (Tom). Vol. 14 1911-1920, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, p. 999.
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. 135, 139, 147, 234 (repr. col.)
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, p. 62 (repr. col.)
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, p. 269 (repr. col.)
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, pp. 190, 364.
Remarks
Dr. J.M. MacCallum to T.J. Harkness, 6 May 1918, Dr. James M. MacCallum Papers, Library and Archives, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, discusses the purchase of this work under the title The Woodland Garland.
Record last updated March 2, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Autumn's Garland, Winter 1915–16 (1915-1916.06)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=417 (accessed on June 21, 2025).