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1917.09

Spring Thaw

Alternate titles: Snow?; Trees and snow with blue shadows (untitled); Winter Sunshine?

Spring 1917

Oil on wood panel

8 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. (21.3 x 26.3 cm)

Inscription verso: in graphite, 6; label, AGT Dec 1934

Private Collection, Vancouver

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Vincent Massey, Toronto, 1918

Hart Massey, Port Hope, Ontario

John Morris, Toronto

Private Collection, Vancouver

Exhibition History

1926 AGT Canadian

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 71, as Winter Sunshine?

1934 Massey

Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Contemporary Paintings by Artists of the United States, Canadian Paint¬ings, the Collection of Hon. Vincent and Mrs. Massey, and in the Print Room Scissor Cuts by René Kulbach, December 1934, no. 198, as Snow?

1995 Thomson

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 12.

Published References

McPherson 1964

McPherson, Hugo. "The Resonance of Batterwood House." Canadian Art 21, no. 2 (March-April 1964), pp. 102, 103 as Trees and snow with blue shadows (untitled) (repr.)

Murray 1991

Murray, Joan. , p. 32 (repr.)

Murray 1994a

Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 53 (repr.)

Record last updated February 16, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Spring Thaw, Spring 1917 (1917.09)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=645 (accessed on May 1, 2025).