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1916.61

Spring, Canoe Lake

Alternate titles: Clouds over Lake; Cloudy Day; Rain Clouds

Spring 1916

Oil on wood panel

8 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.4 x 26.7 cm)

Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, Canoe Lake, 191?; label, AGT 1934

Location Unknown

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Hon. Vincent Massey, Toronto

Hart Massey, Port Hope, by descent, 1970

Private collection?

Location Unknown

Exhibition History

1926 AGT Canadian

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 70, as Cloudy Day.

1934 Massey

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Contemporary Paintings by Artists of the United States, Canadian Paint¬ings, the Collection of Hon. Vincent and Mrs. Massey, and in the Print Room Scissor Cuts by René Kulbach, December 1934, no. 193, as Clouds over Lake.

Published References

Town & Silcox 1977

Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 68 as Rain Clouds (repr. col.)

Record last updated February 25, 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 (1916.61)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=503 (accessed on July 8, 2025).