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Catalogue entry
1916.98
Petawawa Gorges
Fall 1916
Oil on wood
8 7/16 x 10 7/16 in. (21.4 x 26.5 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: t., in graphite, Petawawa - Oct. 1916 J. MacCallum; u.l., in ink, AM; u.c., in graphite, J. Henry; c., in graphite, Not for Sale; l.r., in graphite, No 93 Mrs Harkness
Inscription verso: t., in graphite, Petawawa - Oct. 1916 J. MacCallum; u.l., in ink, AM; u.c., in graphite, J. Henry; c., in graphite, Not for Sale; l.r., in graphite, No 93 Mrs Harkness
Provenance
Estate of artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound?
Mrs. J.G. (Louise Thomson) Henry, Aberdeen, Saskatchewan
Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, by 1930
W.A. Cameron, Saskatoon
Alan M. Cameron, Copper Cliff and Sudbury
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1981.9.2). Purchased with funds donated by Maj. F.A. Tilston, V.C., Toronto, 1981
Exhibition History
1927 Saskatoon
Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 11–12, 1927.1949 CNE
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Arranged by the Canadian National Exhibition Association and the Art Gallery of Toronto, August 26–September 10, 1949, no. 142.1957 Thomson Windsor
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 21.1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 116, (repr.)1998 Algonquin
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Algonquin Gallery, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, Algonquin Memories: Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park, June 25–October 25, 1998, no. 15.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 113, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.Published References
Davies 1930d
Davies, Blodwen. "Tom Thomson and the Canadian Mood." New Outlook 6, no. 35 (27 August 1930), p. 826.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 130 (repr. col.)McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 399.Murray 1991
Murray, Joan. , pp. 36, 38 (repr.) as Private Collection, Copper Cliff, Ontario.Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 76 (repr.)Reid and Hill 2002
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 138, 268 (repr. col.)Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 110–111 (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. ""Petawawa Gorges, Fall 1916 (1916.98)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=539 (accessed on May 1, 2025).