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Catalogue entry
1916.36
Spring, Canoe Lake
Alternate title: no title
Spring 1916
Oil on wood
8 1/2 x 10 9/16 in. (21.6 x 26.8 cm)
Inscriptions recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscriptions verso: c., estate stamp; below stamp, in graphite, 160 M Thomson; u.l., in graphite, RAL; u.c., in red, 21 (circled); u.c., in red, R A Laidlaw; u.r., in graphite, #5; u.r., in graphite, copper; c.l., in graphite, 6; l.c., in red, Gift to RAL Laidlaw / W C Laidlaw?
Inscriptions verso: c., estate stamp; below stamp, in graphite, 160 M Thomson; u.l., in graphite, RAL; u.c., in red, 21 (circled); u.c., in red, R A Laidlaw; u.r., in graphite, #5; u.r., in graphite, copper; c.l., in graphite, 6; l.c., in red, Gift to RAL Laidlaw / W C Laidlaw?
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto
R A Laidlaw, Toronto
R.W. Laidlaw, Toronto
Private collection
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto, 1984
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1949 Laidlaw
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 21, as no title.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 103, (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.Published References
Reid and Hill 2002
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. 138, 258 (repr. col.)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, Canoe Lake, Spring 1916 (1916.36)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=478 (accessed on May 1, 2025).