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Support: on board »
Year(s): 1917 »
1917.05
Early Spring, Algonquin Park
Spring 1917
Oil on board ?
8 11/16 x 10 5/8 in. (22 x 27 cm)
Inscription verso: label, Galerie de Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal
Provenance
Vincent Massey, Toronto
Sir George and Lady Parkin, Toronto, 1920
Raleigh Parkin, Montreal, 1931, by descent
Galerie de Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal, 1968
Private collection, Montreal, 1968
Private Collection, Montreal
Exhibition History
1995 Thomson
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 2.
Published References
Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 28 (repr. col.)
Remarks

In a letter from Raleigh Parkin, Montreal, September 1968, Parkin writes: “This Tom Thomson painting was given to my father and mother, the late Sir George and Lady Parkin, in April, 1920 by their daughter and son-in-law, Alice and Vincent Massey. It has been in my possession since 1931.”

Record last updated May 5, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Early Spring, Algonquin Park, Spring 1917 (1917.05)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=641 (accessed on April 25, 2024).