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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1917.35
Spring
Spring 1917
Oil on wood panel
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription verso: in graphite, This sketch was painted / in the spring of Thomson's drowning / J. MacCallum; in graphite, J + H (circled); in graphite, No. 3 Mrs. Harkness; in red, 21; in black paint, S.B.; in L. Harris's handwriting, under label, Save for (crossed out) lawren Harris (circled)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 38, lent by the Art Gallery of Toronto. It was possibly 1917.02 that was shown instead of this work.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Pictures Purchased by the Albert H. Robson Fund, October 1947, asc. 1916.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 5.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, 89 (repr.) Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 36.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 58, (repr. col.)
Published References
Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, p. 446.
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 48, 89 (repr).
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 115 (repr. col.) as Burnt Country [sic].
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 49 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 144–145 (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. ""Spring, Spring 1917 (1917.35)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=671 (accessed on May 2, 2024).