1914-1915.11
Northern River
Winter 1914–15
Oil on canvas
45 5/16 x 40 3/16 in. (115.1 x 102 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON
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. 125, (repr.)
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Paintings by Canadian Artists, Loaned by the National Gallery of Canada, November 1918, no. 31. Traveled to: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, February 1919; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 4–May 1, 1919; Milwaukee Art Institute, Milwaukee, May 17–April 12, 1919; Hackley Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 1.
1922.
British Empire, Palace of Fine Arts, Wembley Park, London, British Empire Exhibition, Section of Fine Arts, April 23–October 31, 1924, no. 241, ill. in b/w. Traveled to: Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, November 12–December 12, 1924; Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, December 1924–January 17, 1925; City of Birmingham Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 30–March 31, 1925.
Palais des Fêtes, Parc de la Citadelle, Ghent, Belgium, Exposition Triennale de Gand, June 7–August 2, 1925, no. 730.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Inaugural Exhibition, January 29–February 28, 1926, no. 261.
Musée & du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d'art canadien, April 10–May 10, 1927, no. 237.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 3.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.
Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Public Library & Art Museum, London, Ontario, Milestones of Canadian Art: A Retrospective Exhibition of Canadian Art from Paul Kane and Kreighoff to the Contemporary Painters, from 9 January 1942, no. 40.
Navy League of Canada (Ontario Division), Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, February 4–March 5, 1944, no. 73.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Canadian Art, 1760 - 1943, March 11–April 16, 1944.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1668 - 1948, February 16–March 20, 1949, no. 71.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Forty Years of Canadian Painting: From Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven to the Present Day, July 14–September 25, 1949, no. 90.
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 9.
National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.
Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, lnstituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Arte Canadiense, November 22, 1960–February 1961, no. 114.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Images for a Canadian Heritage, September 1966, no. 71.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, May 12–September 17, 1967, no. 188. Traveled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 20–November 26, 1967.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 55, (repr.) Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 37, (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.
Bureau International des Expositions, Spokane, Washington, Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water: An Exhibition of American and Canadian Art Organized by Alfred Frankenstein on the Occasion of the International Exposition, May 4–November 3, 1974, no.113.
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 2.
The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Lake in Algonquin Park: An Examination of an Early Painting by Tom Thomson, February 10–March 12, 1978.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America, 1890 - 1940, January 13–March 11, 1984. (repr. col.) Traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, March 31–May 13, 1984.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, 40 (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.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 20, (repr. col.)
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
Charlesworth, Hector. "O.S.A.'s Exhibition, 1915." Saturday Night 28, no. 23 (20 March 1915), (repr.)
Brown, Eric. "Landscape Art in Canada." In Art of the British Empire Overseas, Charles Holme, ed. London: The Studio Ltd., 1917, pp. 7, 32 (repr.)
MacCallum, J.M. "Tom Thomson: Painter of the North." Canadian Magazine 50, no. 5 (March 1918), p. 379.
Charlesworth, Hector. "The National Gallery a National Reproach." Saturday Night 38, no. 6 (9 December 1922).
"Fine Arts From Canada." Canadian Magazine 63, no. 3 (July 1924), p. 132 (repr.)
National Gallery of Canada. A Portfolio of Pictures from the Canadian Section of Fine Arts, British Empire
Exhibition, London, 1924. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1924, (repr.)
Housser, Frederick Broughton. A Canadian Art Movement: The Story of the Group of Seven. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1926, pp. 99–100.
Paillard, Louis. "La penture canadienne aux Tuileries." Petit Journal (10 April 1927), (repr.)
Dick, Stewart. "The National Gallery of Canada: Tom Thomson." Saturday Night 43, no. 42 (1 September 1928).
Davies, Blodwen. Paddle and Palette: The Story of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1930, p. 9 (repr.)
McLennan, Mary Louise. Children's Artist Friends. Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1931, pp. 1–2 (repr. frontispiece).
Robson, Albert H. Canadian Landscape Painters. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1932, p. 143 (repr. col.)
Lismer, Arthur. Outline for Picture Study: The Northern River. Series 1, no. 2. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1932.
Davies, Blodwen. A Study of Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for
Truth in the Wilderness. Toronto: The Discus Press, 1935, pp. 78, 91 (repr. col.)
Robson, Albert H. Tom Thomson. , Canadian Art Series. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1937, pp. 14–15 (repr. col.)
"Recent Canadian Art." United Empire (London, England) (September 1938), p. 401 (repr.)
Shoolman, Regina, and Charles E. Slatkin. The Enjoyment of Art in America. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942, pp. 693, pl. 712 (repr.)
Buchanan, Donald W. Canadian Painters from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven. Oxford & London: Phaidon Press, 1945, fig. 41 (repr.) as 1913.
Saunders, Audrey. Algonquin Story. Toronto: Department of Lands and Forests, 1947, pp. 170, 174 (repr. col.)
Buchanan, Donald W. The Growth of Canadian Painting. London and Toronto: Collins, 1950, pp. 31, fig. 17 (repr.)
Lismer, Arthur. "Tom Thomson (1877-1917): Canadian Painter." The Education Record of the Province of Quebec 80, no. 3 (July-September 1954), p. 173 (repr.)
Jackson, A.Y. A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of À.Y. Jackson. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co., 1958, p. 106.
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 293 (repr.)
Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, pp. 9, fig. 10 (repr.)
Hubbard, R.H. The Development of Canadian Art. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1963, pp. 88–89, pl. 153 (repr.)
Brown, Maud. Breaking Barriers: Eric Brown National Gallery. Ottawa: Society for Art Publications, 1964, (repr. col.)
Harper, J. Russell. Painting in Canada: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955, pp. 282 (repr.) 2nd edition, 275.
Davies, Blodwen. Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for Truth in the
Wilderness. Vancouver: Mitchell Press Limited, 1967, page facing 57, 64, 74 (repr. col.)
Addison, Ottelyn, Elizabeth Harwood. Tom Thomson, The Algonquin Years. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969, pp. 36, 40, 44, 81 (repr. col.)
Mellen, Peter. The Group of Seven. Toronto, Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1970, pp. 49, 50–51, 66 (repr. col.)
Reid, Dennis. The Group of Seven. Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada, 1970. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 82–83.
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 19, 36, 37 n47, 71, 76, 92 (repr.)
Reid, Dennis. A Concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1973, pp. 142–143 (repr.)
Reid. Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine. 5, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: 1975, pp. 11–12, 15, 17 (repr.)
Brink, Andrew. "Tom Thomson and the Personal Meaning of Landscape." Copperfield: An independent Canadian Literary Magazine of the Land and of the North 6 (1977), p. 32 (repr.)
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 28, 58, 95 (repr. col.)
Zemans, Joyce. "A Celebration of Tom Thomson." Artmagazine 9, no. 36 (December 1977), p. 11.
Varley, Christopher. Lake in Algonquin Park: An Examination of an Early Painting by Tom Thomson. Stratford: The Gallery Stratfrod, 1978. Exhibition catalogue, (repr.)
Martinsen, Hanna. "The Scandinavian Impact on the Group of Seven's Vision of the Canadian
Landscape." Konsthistorisk Tidskrift 53 (1984), pp. 11–12 (repr.)
Nasgaard, Roald. The Mystic North: Symbolist Landscape Painting in Northern Europe and North America 1890-1940. Toronto, Buffalo, London: Art Gallery of Ontario and University of Toronto Press, 1984. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 177, 179, 184 (repr. col.)
Town, Harold. "Thomson, Thomas John." In The Canadian Encyclopedia III. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1985, p. 1817.
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 186.
Murray, Joan. , p. 28 (repr.)
Welsh-Ovcharov. Charles Pachter. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992, p. 94 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1994, pp. 55–56 (repr. col.)
Booth, David. Images of Nature: Canadian Poets and The Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1995, pp. 6–7 (repr. col.)
Silcox, David P. Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996, p. 220.
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, pp. 32, 65 (repr. col.)
Davis, Ann. Thomson, Thomas John (Tom). Vol. 14 1911-1920, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, p. 998.
Wistow, David, and Kelly McKinley. Meet the Group of Seven. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1999, p. 17 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 46–47 (repr. col.)
Rhodes, Richard. A First Book of Canadian Aart. Toronto: Owl Books, 2001, p. 32 (repr. col.)
Duffy D. "Algonquin Revisited: Biography to Hagiography to Label." American Review of Canadian Studies (Spring 2002), (repr.)
Hannon, Gerald. "Sunday in the Park With Tom." Canadian Art 19, no. 3 (Fall/Sept 2002), pp. 78, 82 (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, pp. 60, 130–132, 134, 193 (repr. col.), 313–14.
Murray, Joan. Water: Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2004, pp. 110–111 (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, Pl. 15 (repr. col.), 163–64, 166, 167, 190, 216, 403.
Whitelaw, Anne, Brian Foss, and Sandra Paikowsky eds. The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 42.
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 34–35 (repr. col.)
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. ""Northern River, Winter 1914–15 (1914-1915.11)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=278 (accessed on April 20, 2024).