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1916.175
Snow in the Woods
Alternate title: Shades of Evening
Fall 1916
Oil on wood
8 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (21.9 x 27 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: u.r., in ink, M. Tweedale; c.r., in graphite, OK / GT (circled); on backing, in graphite on torn label removed from verso, 02M (?); on label removed, T.28 / M. Tweedale
Inscription verso: u.r., in ink, M. Tweedale; c.r., in graphite, OK / GT (circled); on backing, in graphite on torn label removed from verso, 02M (?); on label removed, T.28 / M. Tweedale
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1981.78.1). Purchased with funds donated by R.A. Laidlaw, 1971
Exhibition History
1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 112, (repr. col.)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. 119, (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
Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 21, 171 as 1916 (repr. col.)McMichael 1983
p. 19 (repr. col.)McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 268–70.Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 70 (repr. col.)McMichael 1989
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 31 (repr. col.)Murray 1998
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, p. 80 (repr. col.)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, 274 (repr. col.)Remarks
Margaret Thomson Tweedale titled the sketch Shades of Evening.
Record last updated July 4, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Snow in the Woods, Fall 1916 (1916.175)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=616 (accessed on May 2, 2025).