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1916.44

The Waterfall, Spring

Alternate title: The Waterfall in Spring

Spring 1916

Oil on wood panel

8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)

Inscription recto: l.l., TOM THOMSON

Private Collection

Provenance

Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto

Dr. F.O. MacCallum London and Oxford, England, by descent, 1944

Private Collection

Exhibition History

1919 Thomson

Arts Club, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Thomson, March 1, 1919, no. 22. Traveled to: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, March 25–April 12, 1919.

1923 Sarnia

Sarnia Conservation Committee, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Little Picture Show, March 1923, as The Waterfall in Spring.

1926 AGT Canadian

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 54.

1937 Thomson

Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 80, lent by James M. MacCallum.

Published References

Canadian Art 1944

"A Gift to the Nation." 2, no. 1 (October-November 1944), p. 2 (repr.)

Buchanan 1945

Buchanan, Donald W. Canadian Painters from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven. Oxford & London: Phaidon Press, 1945, fig. 44 (repr.) as 1915.

Robertson 1949

Robertson, John K. B. "Canadian Geography and Canadian Painting." Canadian Geographic Journal 39, no. 6 (December 1949), p. 266 (repr.)

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. 302 (repr.)

Hubbard 1962

Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, fig. 9 (repr.)

Murray 1991

Murray, Joan. , p. 37 (repr.)

Murray 1994a

Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 73 (repr.)

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. ""The Waterfall, Spring, Spring 1916 (1916.44)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=486 (accessed on May 2, 2025).