Print this page

Catalogue entry

enlarge
Michelle Wilson; © McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Explore catalogue entries

Medium: Oil »
Year(s): 1916 »
1916.115
Somber Day
Fall 1916
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; u.l. c., in orange crayon, T (circled) (upside down); l.l.q., label, in graphite, M. Thomson / 261
Published References
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, (repr.)
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr. col.)
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 25, 171 (repr.)
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 122 (repr. col.), 230.
p. 17 (repr. col.)
Remarks

“M” on the reverse of the sketch likely refers to Margaret Thomson (later Tweedale) since she made a new list of the Thomson works in the estate when she took over its handling from Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, c. 1931. This work would have been no. 261 on her list.

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. ""Somber Day, Fall 1916 (1916.115)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=556 (accessed on March 29, 2024).