1914.73
Twisted Maple
Alternate title: Red Tree
Fall 1914
Oil on wood
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 20.9 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; c., above stamp, M. Tweedale; u.r., in graphite, OK / GT; u.r., in graphite, Mrs. W.P. MacKenzie [sic]; c.l., in graphite, 325; (1970) in graphite, 1914; u.r., label, Mr. W.? / T.31 / M. Tweedale
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; c., above stamp, M. Tweedale; u.r., in graphite, OK / GT; u.r., in graphite, Mrs. W.P. MacKenzie [sic]; c.l., in graphite, 325; (1970) in graphite, 1914; u.r., label, Mr. W.? / T.31 / M. Tweedale
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 29, (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.
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 10, as lent by Mrs. Margaret Tweedale.
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011.
Published References
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 35, 70 as The Red Tree (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 36–37 (repr. col.)
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, cover (repr. col. det.), Pl. 12 (repr. col.), 143.
Remarks
Margaret Thomson Tweedale titled this work The Red Tree. Although the McMichael Gallery accession records prove that she gifted this work to the McMichael in 1974, it was allowed to remain in her house and she lent it to Thomson 1977 as from her collection.
Record last updated April 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Twisted Maple, Fall 1914 (1914.73)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=247 (accessed on April 19, 2024).