1916.99
Petawawa Gorges, Night
Alternate titles: Coming of Night; Sunset behind Cliff; The Coming of the Night?
Fall 1916
Oil on wood
8 5/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.1 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., in graphite, 7.; t., label, AGT Dec. 1934 in graphite, Petawawa Gorges; r., in graphite, Petawawa Gorges; b.c., label, Rowley & etc.
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.r., in graphite, 7.; t., label, AGT Dec. 1934 in graphite, Petawawa Gorges; r., in graphite, Petawawa Gorges; b.c., label, Rowley & etc.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 80, as The Coming of the Night?
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Contemporary Paintings by Artists of the United States, Canadian Paint¬ings, the Collection of Hon. Vincent and Mrs. Massey, and in the Print Room Scissor Cuts by René Kulbach, December 1934, no. 188, as Storm Over River or 190 as Sunset behind Cliff.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Vincent Massey Bequest: The Canadian Paintings, September 20–October 20, 1968, no. 81.
Published References
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, p. 22 (repr. col.)
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, pp. 212, 225 (repr. col.)
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, Pl. 11 (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, Night, Fall 1916 (1916.99)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=540 (accessed on May 1, 2025).