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Catalogue entry
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
Estate of the artist
Vincent Massey, Toronto, 1918
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (15548). Bequest of Vincent Massey, 1968
Exhibition History
1926 AGT Canadian
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 80, as The Coming of the Night?1934 Massey
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.1968 Massey
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Vincent Massey Bequest: The Canadian Paintings, September 20–October 20, 1968, no. 81.Published References
Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 63 (repr. col.)Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 77 (repr.)Silcox 2002
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, p. 22 (repr. col.)Silcox 2003
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, pp. 212, 225 (repr. col.)King 2010
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).