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Catalogue entry
1916.08
Ice in Spring
Spring 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
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; u.r., white paint, S.B.; u.r. in graphite, reserved / Studio Bldg.; c., in graphite, 1916, l.r., in graphite, No. 11 Mrs. Harkness
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., white paint, S.B.; u.r. in graphite, reserved / Studio Bldg.; c., in graphite, 1916, l.r., in graphite, No. 11 Mrs. Harkness
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Kitchener Art Committee, 1926
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (4576). Gift of Mrs. S.J. Williams, Mrs. Harvey Sims, Mrs. T.M. Cram, and Miss Geneva Jackson, Kitchener, 1943
Exhibition History
1926 Kitchener
Schreiters Exhibition Annex, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Exhibition of Paintings, May 25–June 5, 1926, no. 53.1937 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 28, lent by the Ladies' Committee, Kitchener.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, lent by the Canadian Art Committee, Kitchener.Published References
Hubbard 1960b
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 299.Fetherling 1988
Fetherling, D. "Back-seat Kreighoffs and other art crimes." Kingston Whig-Standard, 21 May 1988.Remarks
The work went missing from the National Gallery, 1950s - May 1984.
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. ""Ice in Spring, Spring 1916 (1916.08)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=450 (accessed on May 2, 2025).