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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1916.84
Pine Tree
Alternate title: Pine Trees
Summer 1916
Oil on wood panel
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Stamped: Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, 86.M. Thomson; in graphite, J & H; in ink, Property of Harkness
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in graphite, 86.M. Thomson; in graphite, J & H; in ink, Property of Harkness
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 44, as Pine Trees, lent by the Art Gallery of Toronto.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Pictures Purchased by the Albert H. Robson Fund, October 1947.
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, November 1948, no. 41.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 98, (published in). Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.
Published References
Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, p. 441.
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 44, 85 (repr.)
Remarks
A letter from T.W. Dwight, Professor of Forestry, University of Toronto, to Martin Baldwin, Director of the then Art Gallery of Toronto, 14 January 1955, contains a photograph of a red pine tree at Achray on Grand Lake which Thomson may have painted in this sketch (repr. Murray 1986a, 62). Dwight was convinced that the tree was the one Thomson had used as a model for The West Wind.
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. ""Pine Tree, Summer 1916 (1916.84)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=526 (accessed on May 6, 2024).