1914-1915.02
Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay
Alternate titles: Georgian Bay Pines; Pines, Georgian Bay; Summer Shore, Georgian Bay
Winter 1914–15
Oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 30 1/16 in. (71.5 x 76.3 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., Tom Thomson
Provenance
Exhibition History
Ontario Society of Artists, Art Museum of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Society of Artists Forty-third Annual Exhibition, March 13–April 10, 1915, no. 127, as Georgian Bay Pines.
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition: Department of Fine Arts, August 28–September 13, 1915, no. 241, as Pines, Georgian Bay.
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 26, lent by R.V. LeSueur, Toronto.
Canadian National Exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Private Collectors' Choice in Canadian Art Sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society, August 1959, as lent by Mrs. And Mrs. R.V. LeSueur.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, ill. in color, Verso. 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.
The Spoleto Festival U.S.A, The Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina, Wilderness Canada: Canadian Landscape Paintings from the McMichael Canadian Collection, May 20–June 22, 1981, no. 1, ill. in color, (cover).
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Selections from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, October 5–November 18, 1990, no. 27.
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. 35–36, 59 (repr. col.)
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 93, 230 (repr. col.)
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, pp.208–209 as Summer Shore, Georgian Bay, c. 1916 (repr. col.)
cover detail, 16 (repr. col.)
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 339, 340–343.
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 20 (repr. col.)
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, p. 110 (repr. detail).
Murray, Joan. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, One Hundred Masterworks. Kleinburg: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2006, pp. 176–177 (repr. col.)
Remarks
The work was conserved by Eduard Zukowski at the Art Gallery of Toronto around 1955.
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. ""Byng Inlet, Georgian Bay, Winter 1914–15 (1914-1915.02)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=269 (accessed on April 25, 2024).