1916.65
Storm Clouds, Algonquin Park
Alternate titles: Dark Thunderheads; No title; No Title (Autumn Woods and Lake); Storm Cloud
Spring 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 7/16 x 10 9/16 in. (21.5 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., in red wax crayon, 32 (circled); in orange/red pencil, R.A. Laidlaw; m.r. upside down, in orange / red pencil #58 / Mrs. Harness; l.m., in dark red pencil, "G" reinforced with blue wax crayon, Gift to R.W.L. / R.A. Laidlaw; c., in blue/black wax crayon, 13; u.l., label, Gift to R.A.L. Laidlaw / R.A. Laidlaw
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., in red wax crayon, 32 (circled); in orange/red pencil, R.A. Laidlaw; m.r. upside down, in orange / red pencil #58 / Mrs. Harness; l.m., in dark red pencil, "G" reinforced with blue wax crayon, Gift to R.W.L. / R.A. Laidlaw; c., in blue/black wax crayon, 13; u.l., label, Gift to R.A.L. Laidlaw / R.A. Laidlaw
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 32, as No title (possibly Lake & lowering sky).
Published References
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 114 (repr. col.) as Dark Thunderheads.
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. ""Storm Clouds, Algonquin Park, Spring 1916 (1916.65)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=507 (accessed on May 19, 2024).