1916.57
Early Spring in Cauchon Lake
Alternate title: Algonquin Waterfall
Spring 1916
Oil on wood
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.2 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, Petawawa (crossed out) Cauchon Lake; in graphite (Lawren Harris?) Early Spring. / Background is a high hill covered / with budding hardwood & a few spruce.; in graphite, lst class; in ink, Property of Harkness; in graphite, 100 M. Thomson
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, Petawawa (crossed out) Cauchon Lake; in graphite (Lawren Harris?) Early Spring. / Background is a high hill covered / with budding hardwood & a few spruce.; in graphite, lst class; in ink, Property of Harkness; in graphite, 100 M. Thomson
Provenance
Exhibition History
McMichael Canadian Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Group of Seven: Canadian Landscape Painters, August 25–September 18, 1976, no. 4. Traveled to: Talbot Rice Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, September 29–October 20, 1976; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, November 27–December 18, 1976; Canada House Gallery, London, January 12–February 23, 1977; The Royal Residence, Munich, March 15–April 30, 1977; The Provincial Museum, Bonn, Germany, May 1–18, 1977; The Hermitage, Leningrad, Russian Federation, June 7–July 2, 1977; Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Kiev, Russian Federation, July 11–31, 1977; Pushkin Museum, Moscow, August 10–27, 1977; Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany, September 23–October 15, 1977; Oslo Kuntsforeningen, Oslo, Norway, March 16–April 10, 1978; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, April 20–May 14, 1978; Castle Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, May 18–June 4, 1978; National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, July 1–16, 1978; Thames Art Centre, Chatham, Ontario, Canada, July 21–August 13, 1978; National Exhibition Centre, Timmins, Ontario, Canada, August 23–September 17, 1978; Northern Studio du Nord, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, September 22–October 9, 1978.
Thunder Bay, National Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, Group of Seven: Canadian Landscape Painters, July 1–16, 1978, no. 4. Traveled to: Thames Art Centre, Chatham, Ontario, Canada, July 21–August 13, 1978; Timmins Museum, National Exhibition Centre, Timmins, Ontario, Canada, August 23–September 17, 1978; Northern Studio du Nord, Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada, September 22–October 9, 1978.
The Spoleto Festival U.S.A, The Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Wilderness Canada: Canadian Landscape Paintings from the McMichael Canadian Collection, May 20–June 22, 1981, no. 4.
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 111.
Published References
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, p. 172 (repr.)
p. 24 (repr.)
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 26 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 98–99 (repr. col.)
Record last updated May 27, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Early Spring in Cauchon Lake, Spring 1916 (1916.57)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=499 (accessed on April 30, 2024).