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Catalogue entry
1916.43
Swift Water
Spring 1916
Oil on panel
8 3/8 x 10 9/16 in. (21.3 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription verso: l.r., estate stamp; label, c., in ink on red-bordered label (torn), Dr. James MacCallum / The Rapids - last year; u.l., in graphite, James MacCallum
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (4649). Bequest of Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, 1944
Exhibition History
1958 Los Angeles
National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.1969 MacCallum
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Jackman Gift of Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some of the Members of the Group of Seven, January 25–February 23, 1969, no. 127, (repr.)1970 NGC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 71, (repr.) Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 121, (repr.), as 1917. Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.1977 Mirvish
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Tom Thomson Exhibition, October 15–November 14, 1977.1981 Tokyo
National Gallery of Canada, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Twentieth Century Canadian Painting, July 9–August 2, 1981, no. 28, (repr.) Traveled to: Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, August 29–September 20, 1981; Oita Prefectural Art Centre, Oita, Japan, October 1–28, 1981.1984 West Palm Beach
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Canadian Painting, March 18–April 29, 1984.1990 Thomson
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 16–September 16, 1990.1995 Thomson
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 35.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. 300.Reid 1969
Reid, Dennis. The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. HR. Jackman Gift of the Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some Members of the Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1969. Exhibition catalogue, p. 23 (repr.)Reid 1970
Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, p. 108 (repr.)Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 49, 90 (repr.)Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 74 (repr. col.)Thom 1990
Thom, Ian M. Tom Thomson. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue.Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, pp. 7, 48 (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. ""Swift Water, Spring 1916 (1916.43)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=485 (accessed on May 1, 2025).