1916.88
Windy Day
Alternate titles: Evening Cloud; Windy Day, Canoe Lake 1916; Windy Day-Canoe Lake
Summer 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 3/8 x 10 7/16 in. (21.3 x 26.5 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, #13 / RAL / WCL (circled); u.r., on sticker, Canoe Lake / June1916; u.r., label, T.46; l.l., sticker, 259 Gift of / R.A. Laidlaw; (1968 and 1970) label, Evening Cloud / Goes to Studio Building / Duncan-Russell 4 (circled)
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, #13 / RAL / WCL (circled); u.r., on sticker, Canoe Lake / June1916; u.r., label, T.46; l.l., sticker, 259 Gift of / R.A. Laidlaw; (1968 and 1970) label, Evening Cloud / Goes to Studio Building / Duncan-Russell 4 (circled)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Arts Club, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Thomson, March 1, 1919, no. 61, as Windy Day-Canoe Lake, lent by H. Mortimer-Lamb. Traveled to: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, March 25–April 12, 1919.
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 20, (repr. col.) p. 7, lent by Walter C. Laidlaw, Toronto.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 3, as Windy Day, Canoe Lake 1916.
Published References
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom
Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, (repr.)
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr.)
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 32, 172 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, One Hundred Masterworks. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2006, pp. 180–81 (repr. col.)
Record last updated June 14, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Windy Day, Summer 1916 (1916.88)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=529 (accessed on May 1, 2025).