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Medium: Oil »
Support: on wood »
Year(s): 1917 »
1917.22
Woods in Winter
Spring 1917
Oil on wood
5 11/16 x 7 7/8 in. (14.5 x 20 cm)
Inscription verso: in graphite, 1/2 BLUE - BACKED BY 3/8 ANTIQUE; in ink, J.HENRY; in graphite, Woods in Winter
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Louise Thomson (Mrs. J.G.) Henry, Guernsey and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (967.056). Gift of Louise Thomson (Mrs. J.G.) Henry, Saskatoon, 1967
Exhibition History
1927 Saskatoon
Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 11–12, 1927.
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. 26.
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. 39.
1995 Thomson
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 9.
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. 134, (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
Sun Times 1967
"Valuable Tom Thomson Works are Presented to Gallery by His Sister." Sun Times (Owen Sound), 23 October 1967.
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 191 (repr. col.)
Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 32 (repr. col. pl. 6).
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. 141, 290 (repr. col. 134, p. 354).
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. ""Woods in Winter, Spring 1917 (1917.22)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=658 (accessed on May 8, 2025).