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1911.12

Evening, Lake Scugog

c.1911

Oil on wood

8 7/8 x 12 in. (22.7 x 30.5 cm)

Inscription recto: l.r., T (with a line top and bottom)

Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (970.001)

Provenance

Mary Olmstead, Owen Sound

Judge F.W. (Skip) Olmstead, Owen Sound, by descent

Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (970.001). Gift of Judge & Mrs. F.W. Olmstead, Walkerton, in memory of Mrs. Mary Olmstead, 1970

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. 57.

Published References

Murray 1971

Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 21, H.B. Jackson says that he and Thomson went to Lake Scugog two or three times.

Remarks

In a letter to Murray, Mr. Wood, 17 March 1971?, remembers this work as one of Thomson’s earliest sketches, one year after he had his first sketch box.

Record last updated April 28, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Evening, Lake Scugog, c.1911 (1911.12)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=87 (accessed on May 2, 2025).