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Michelle Wilson
1914.71
Soft Maple in Autumn
Fall 1914
Oil on plywood
10 x 7 in. (25.5 x 17.8 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r, estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; l.r., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, 4 in circle; t., in graphite, 8209 / 5 / 513 1/2; t.c., in ink, Soft Maple in Autumn; c.l., in graphite, 7 full (?) + 104; c.r., partially covered by label, in graphite,...[164] M. Thomson
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; l.r., estate stamp; u.l., in graphite, 4 in circle; t., in graphite, 8209 / 5 / 513 1/2; t.c., in ink, Soft Maple in Autumn; c.l., in graphite, 7 full (?) + 104; c.r., partially covered by label, in graphite,...[164] M. Thomson
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Louise Thomson (Mrs. J.G.) Henry, Guernsey and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, c. 1918
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound (967.061). Gift of Louise Thomson (Mrs. J.G.) Henry, Saskatoon, 1967
Exhibition History
1927 Saskatoon
Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 11–12, 1927.1968 Owen Sound
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, First Anniversary Exhibition, May 24–June 9, 1968, no. 8.1969 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Paintings by Tom Thomson: The Second Anniversary Exhibition, May 23–June 15, 1969, no. 31.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, pl. VI. 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, 1972.1975 AGO
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Ontario Community Collects: A Survey of Canadian Painting from 1766 to the Present, December 12, 1975–February 1, 1976, no. 92, (repr.)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. 44.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 32, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.Published References
Sun Times 1967
"Valuable Tom Thomson Works are Presented to Gallery by His Sister." Sun Times (Owen Sound), 23 October 1967.Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 35, 56, 59 (repr. col.)Forsey 1975
Forsey, William C. The Ontario Community Collects: A Survey of Canadian Painting from 1766 to the.
Present. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 190–191, 234.Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 30 (repr. col.)Murray 1998
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, p. 32 (repr. col.)Murray 1999b
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 34–35 (repr. col.)Behiels 2000
Behiels, Michael D., and Marcel Martel, eds. Nation, Ideas, Identities: Essays in Honour of Ramsay Cook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, cover (repr. col).Reid and Hill 2002
Reid, Dennis and Charles C. Hill. Tom Thomson. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre with the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada, 2002. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 127, 130, 185 (repr. col.)King 2010
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, p. 143.Record last updated March 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Soft Maple in Autumn, Fall 1914 (1914.71)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=245 (accessed on April 23, 2024).