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1916.102
Log Jam: Sketch for "The Drive"
Alternate titles: Jam?; Log Drive?; The Jam?; The Log Drive?
Fall 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscriptions verso: c., estate stamp; l.r., estate stamp; u.c., in graphite, TT58; u.l., in ink, AM; l.c., in graphite, No 59 Mrs Harkness
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
George Thomson, New Haven, Connecticut and Owen Sound, Ontario, 1937
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto, 1937
Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1970
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1937 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 12, as The Jam? lent by the artist's family, Owen Sound.1956 CNE
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Arranged by the Fine Arts Committee of the Canadian National Exhibition Association and a Showing of Amateur Paintings from Across Canada, Canadian National Exhibition, August 24–September 8, 1956, no. 58, as The Log Drive?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. 114, (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 1935
Davies, Blodwen. A Study of Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for
Truth in the Wilderness. Toronto: The Discus Press, 1935, pp. 102–104.Saunders 1947
Saunders, Audrey. Algonquin Story. Toronto: Department of Lands and Forests, 1947, p. 173.Davies 1967
Davies, Blodwen. Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for Truth in the
Wilderness. Vancouver: Mitchell Press Limited, 1967, pp. 81–82.Little 1970
Little, William T. The Tom Thomson Mystery. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1970, p. 111.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, 269 (repr. col.), 32n53.Shields, C 2008
Shields, Conal ed. Ken Thomson The Collector: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Skylet Publishing and The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2008, p. 142 (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. ""Log Jam: Sketch for "The Drive", Fall 1916 (1916.102)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=543 (accessed on November 4, 2025).