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Michelle Wilson
1917.10
Ice Covered Lake
Alternate titles: An Ice Covered Lake; Lake in Spring
Spring 1917
Oil on wood
5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (13.3 x 19 cm)
Inscription verso: in ink, An Ice covered Lake / Selected from / Tom Thomson's / last group of / sketches in the / Spring of 1917 / by his brother / Geo. Thomson; in graphite, Ice Covered Lake; in ink, Donated by Geo. Thomson to the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery. March 16, 1964; (stamped) IT CO. / ORNIA
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Gift of George Thomson to the Grey County Historical and Art Society, 1964
George Thomson, New Haven, Connecticut and Owen Sound
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (967.120). Transferred to the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, 1967
Exhibition History
1957 Thomson London
London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, George Thomson 1868 -, July 6–September 6, 1957, no. 11.1967 Thomson
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 14.1968 Owen Sound
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, First Anniversary Exhibition, May 24–June 9, 1968, no. 8.1969 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Paintings by Tom Thomson: The Second Anniversary Exhibition, May 23–June 15, 1969, no. 20.1977 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 54.1995 Thomson
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 11.1998 Algonquin
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Algonquin Gallery, Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, Algonquin Memories: Tom Thomson in Algonquin Park, June 25–October 25, 1998.Published References
Sun Times 1964
"Two Thomson Originals For Art Gallery." Sun Times (Owen Sound), 24 March 1964.Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 34 (repr. col.)Murray 1999b
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 118–119 (repr. col.)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. ""Ice Covered Lake, Spring 1917 (1917.10)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=646 (accessed on May 1, 2025).