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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1911.13
The Marsh, Lake Scugog
1911
Oil on canvas
11 x 17 in. (27.9 x 43.2 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., T.T.
Inscription verso: on stretcher: 1., in red, 84; on cloth tape on upper member, T.THOMSON / THE MARSH-LAKE SCUGOG; on frame, u.r. side, 34, l.r. in graphite, #5; l.l. in ballpoint, G12 or GIL, u.l., in graphite, 1-3
Inscription verso: on stretcher: 1., in red, 84; on cloth tape on upper member, T.THOMSON / THE MARSH-LAKE SCUGOG; on frame, u.r. side, 34, l.r. in graphite, #5; l.l. in ballpoint, G12 or GIL, u.l., in graphite, 1-3
Provenance
S.H.F. (Stanley) Kemp, Toronto fall 1913
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2188)
Exhibition History
1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.1957 Thomson London
London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, George Thomson 1868 -, July 6–September 6, 1957, no. 41.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 3, (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.Published References
Robson 1937
Robson, Albert H. Tom Thomson. , Canadian Art Series. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1937, p. 9.Harper 1966
Harper, J. Russell. Painting in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955, p. 272 (Second edition 267).Bradfield 1970
Bradfield, Helen. Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Company of Canada Limited, 1970, p. 444.Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 21, 65 (repr.).Remarks
According to letter from Stanley Kemp, a friend and co-worker of Thomson at Grip Ltd., 21 November 1934, “The picture is not his preliminary sketch, but a later painting from the sketch. It depicts a marsh or swamp on the edge of lake skugog (or scugog) [sic] with evening settling down.” Thomson gave Kemp the sketch in the fall of 1913, as far as Kemp could recall, on a visit to Thomson’s studio upstairs on the south side of Isabella Street in Toronto.
Record last updated March 8, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""The Marsh, Lake Scugog, 1911 (1911.13)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=88 (accessed on May 2, 2025).