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Medium: Oil »
Support: on wood panel »
Year(s): 1916 »
1916.107
Rock-Burnt Country
Alternate title: Rock, Burnt Country
Fall 1916
Oil on wood panel
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.2 x 26.6 cm)
Inscription verso: l.r., estate stamp; u.l., in black paint, S.B.; c., (under label of Art Association of Montreal) NOT FOR SALE (crossed out)?; Harkness?; u.r., label, Rock - Burnt Country / 13 (circled)
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (985)
Exhibition History
1937 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 9, as Rock, Burnt Country, lent by the artist's family, Owen Sound.
Published References
Steegman 1960
Steegman, John H. Catalogue of Paintings. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1960, p. 41.
Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 67 (repr. col.)
Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 71 (repr.)
Remarks

There are pin-sized holes in the four corners of the work, presumably for hanging in an early show, perhaps by Thomson himself. This feature also appears in the following works: Burnt Country, Spring 1915 (1915.33), Dawn on Round Lake [Kawawaymog Lake], Fall 1915 (1915.115), and Aura Lee Lake, Spring 1916 (1916.55)

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. ""Rock-Burnt Country, Fall 1916 (1916.107)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=548 (accessed on April 26, 2024).