1916.01
Decorative Design: Quotation from The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling
Alternate title: Decorations (small)
Spring 1916
Gouache and ink on paper
10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (26.3 x 18.1 cm)
Inscription verso: in ink, This design was done for me / by Tom Thomson / in the Spring of 1916 / Marion Long; in graphite, Sample 22. $2.50 / Miss Long; label, AGT Dec. 28/40
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, as Decorations (small), as one of Decorations (small) lent by Marion Long, Toronto.
Published References
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, p. 61 (repr.)
Grace, Sherrill E. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, p. 70 (repr.)
Remarks
Thomson took the quote from Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed (1913), 144.
Record last updated February 29, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Decorative Design: Quotation from The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling, Spring 1916 (1916.01)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=443 (accessed on April 30, 2025).