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1911.09

Big Elm

Alternate titles: Title Unknown; Untitled

1911

Oil on panel on paper mounted on board?

9 3/8 x 12 3/8 in. (23.8 x 31.4 cm)

Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (974.031)

Provenance

Margaret J. (Matheson) Thomson. Gifted to her first cousin, Elizabeth Weird, Owen Sound before 1918.

Elizabeth Weird. Gift from her first cousin Margaret J. Matheson Thomson.

Mrs. Jas McAdam. From her mother Elizabeth Weir, Florida

Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (974.031). Purchased with the bequests of Dora and Jean Taylor, Detroit, 1974

Exhibition History

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. 65, (repr. colour), as Untitled.

Published References

Sun Times 1974

"Gallery gets New Painting." Sun Times (Owen Sound), 5 November 1974.

Shields, A 1975

Shields, Alexis. "Untitled Thomson work comes to gallery." Sun Times (Owen Sound), 9 January 1975.

Town & Silcox 1977

Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 43 (repr. col.)

Remarks

The work was conserved by Eduard Zukowski of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1974.

Record last updated March 9, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Big Elm, 1911 (1911.09)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=84 (accessed on May 5, 2025).