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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

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (851)

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound

Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (851). Gift from the Reuben and Kate Leonard Canadian Fund, 1927

Exhibition History

1937 Thomson

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.

1947 AGT

Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Pictures Purchased by the Albert H. Robson Fund, October 1947.

1948 Windsor

Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, November 1948, no. 41.

1951 AGT

Art Gallery of Toronto, 1951, no. 28.

1971 Thomson

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 1970

Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, p. 441.

Murray 1971

Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 44, 85 (repr.)

Murray 1986a

Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 62 (repr. col.)

Murray 1994a

Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 68 (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 19, 2024).