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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
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith, Winnipeg
Private collection, Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1972.4). Anonymous gift, 1972
Exhibition History
1976 McMichael
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, 1978.1978 McMichael
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, 1978.1981 Charleston
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. 4.1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 111.Published References
Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, p. 172 (repr.)McMichael 1983
p. 24 (repr.)Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 57 (repr. col.)McMichael 1989
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 2011
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 May 16, 2024).