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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
Provenance
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1055). Purchased from the artist through the Ontario Society of Artists, 1915
Exhibition History
1915 OSA
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.)1918 St. Louis
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.1920 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 1.1922 Thomson NGC
1922.1922 Thomson Owen Sound
1922, no. 2.1924 Wembley
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, 1925.1925 Ghent
Palais des Fêtes, Parc de la Citadelle, Ghent, Belgium, Exposition Triennale de Gand, June 7–August 2, 1925, no. 730.1926 AGT Inaugural
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Inaugural Exhibition, January 29–February 28, 1926, no. 261.1927 Paris
Musée & du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d'art canadien, April 10–May 10, 1927, no. 237.1932 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 3.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.1942 London
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. 40.1944 AGT
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. 73.1944 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Canadian Art, 1760 - 1943, March 11–April 16, 1944.1945 DPC
1945, no. 132.1949 Richmond
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, Exhibition of Canadian Painting, 1668 - 1948, February 16–March 20, 1949, no. 71.1949 Boston
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. 90.1957 Thomson Windsor
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 9.1958 Los Angeles
National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Cultural Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Tom Thomson, January–March 1958.1960 Mexico
Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, lnstituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Arte Canadiense, November 22, 1960–February 1961, no. 114.1966 Vancouver
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Images for a Canadian Heritage, September 1966, no. 71.1967 NGC (2)
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, 1967.1970 NGC
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, 1970.1971 Thomson
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, 1972.1974 Spokane
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.113.1977 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. 2.1978 Thomson
The Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, Lake in Algonquin Park: An Examination of an Early Painting by Tom Thomson, February 10–March 12, 1978.1984 AGO
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, 1984.2002 Thomson
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, 2003.2004 St. Petersburg
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.)2010 Kleinburg
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
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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 24, 2024).