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Year(s): 1916 »
1916.68
Moccasin Flower
Alternate title: Orchids, Algonquin Park
Spring 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
10 9/16 x 8 9/16 in. (26.8 x 21.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.c., in ink, TT 44; u.r., in graphite, Spring 1916
frame verso: Lady Slipper Or (crossed out); cloth tape, middle side: Moon ? / light ?
Private Collection
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Andrea Hines, Newport, N.S., by descent
Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto, 2001
Private Collection
Published References
Harper 1966
Harper, J. Russell. Painting in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955, pp. 282 (repr), 2nd edition 1987 363 (repr.)
Murray 2002
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 104–105 (repr. col.) as Orchids, Algonquin Park.
Silcox 2003
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, pp. 50, 53 (repr. col.)
Record last updated May 13, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Moccasin Flower, Spring 1916 (1916.68)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=510 (accessed on March 28, 2024).