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Catalogue entry
1916.20
Islands, Canoe Lake
Alternate title: Grand Lake at Achray
Spring 1916
Oil on wood
8 7/16 x 10 5/16 in. (21.4 x 26.2 cm)
Inscription verso: u.r., in graphite, Intermediate / Blue; u.r.q., in graphite, Tom Thomson 1916 / J.E.H. MacDonald / N.F.S.; l.r.q., in graphite, Grand Lake At Achray -LRH / probably "Canoe Lake" / painted by Tom Thomson / A.Y.J.; l.l.q., label, AGT. Nov. 25/63
Provenance
Estate of the artist
J.E.H. MacDonald, Thornhill
Thoreau MacDonald, Thornhill, by descent
Frank Erichsen-Brown, Toronto
Paul Duval, Toronto
Robert McMichael, Kleinburg
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1966.16.73). Gift of the Founders, Robert and Signe McMichael, 1966
Published References
Duval 1967
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom
Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, as 1915 (repr.)Duval 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr).Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 20, 170 (repr.)McMichael 1983
p. 28 (repr.)King 2010
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, Pl. 25 (repr. col.), 241.Record last updated April 16, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Islands, Canoe Lake, Spring 1916 (1916.20)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=463 (accessed on May 18, 2024).