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1917.34

Dark Waters

Spring 1917

Oil on wood panel

8 3/8 x 10 9/16 in. (21.3 x 26.8 cm)

Inscription verso: l.r., estate stamp; u.l., 3; u.c., in ink, James M. MacCallum; c., in graphite, 42 (circled)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (4660)

Provenance

Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (4660). Bequest of Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto, 1944

Exhibition History

1969 MacCallum

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Jackman Gift of Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some of the Members of the Group of Seven, January 25–February 23, 1969, no. 125.

1970 NGC

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, 70 (repr.) Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.

1995 Thomson

Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 34.

Published References

Hubbard 1960b

Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 301.

Reid 1969

Reid, Dennis. The MacCallum Bequest of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Other Canadian Painters & the Mr. and Mrs. HR. Jackman Gift of the Murals from the Late Dr. MacCallum's Cottage Painted by Some Members of the Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1969. Exhibition catalogue, p. 53.

Reid 1970

Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, p. 108 (repr.)

Town & Silcox 1977

Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 76 (repr. col.)

Murray 1994a

Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 48 and back cover (repr. col.)

Record last updated February 12, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Dark Waters, Spring 1917 (1917.34)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=670 (accessed on May 2, 2024).