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Catalogue entry
Bernard Clark
1916.28
Spring, Algonquin Park
Spring 1916
Oil on wood panel
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.3 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: sketch, in graphite, (of tents and panels laid on them to dry); c., estate stamp; u.r.q., in black ink, S.B.; u.r.q., below S.B., in ink, T-T-26; c.r., in black, Sketch #24; l.r.q., J+H; l.l.q., in graphite, 12_ / M. Thomson (circled); u.l.q., in graphite, reserved/Studio Bldg. (circled); l.c., round stamp, illegible writing along the top, along the bottom "Lacolle, PQ..." (stamp is upside down in faded black ink)
Inscription verso: sketch, in graphite, (of tents and panels laid on them to dry); c., estate stamp; u.r.q., in black ink, S.B.; u.r.q., below S.B., in ink, T-T-26; c.r., in black, Sketch #24; l.r.q., J+H; l.l.q., in graphite, 12_ / M. Thomson (circled); u.l.q., in graphite, reserved/Studio Bldg. (circled); l.c., round stamp, illegible writing along the top, along the bottom "Lacolle, PQ..." (stamp is upside down in faded black ink)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston (AE 00-126). Presented by Queen's Art Foundation, 1941
Published References
Catalogue Agnes Etherington 1968
Catalogue of the Permanent Collection, Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Kingston: Agnes Etherington, 1968, no. 140.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 64 (repr. col.)Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 29 (verso repr. col.), 94–95 (repr. col.)Remarks
T-T-26 refers to the number of the work on a list made by Archie Laing, G. Blair Laing’s father.
Record last updated February 26, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Spring, Algonquin Park, Spring 1916 (1916.28)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=470 (accessed on May 1, 2024).