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Catalogue entry
1915.17
Northern Spring
Alternate titles: Birches and Rocks; Birches in Spring; Early Spring
Spring 1915
Oil on wood
[no dimensions]
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in ink on printed label, Block for Weekly Edition/ THE TIMES (stamped)/ Page V no. 1 / Subject NORTHERN SPRING / SIZE 9 1/4" wide x 7 1/4" deep / Special instructions / 11; c.r., in graphite, No. 9; c., in graphite, B; u.r., in graphite, 17; printed label, ROWLEY / 140-2 CHURCH ST / KENSINGTON W.8
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; in ink on printed label, Block for Weekly Edition/ THE TIMES (stamped)/ Page V no. 1 / Subject NORTHERN SPRING / SIZE 9 1/4" wide x 7 1/4" deep / Special instructions / 11; c.r., in graphite, No. 9; c., in graphite, B; u.r., in graphite, 17; printed label, ROWLEY / 140-2 CHURCH ST / KENSINGTON W.8
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Alice and Vincent Massey, Toronto, 1918
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (15555). Bequest of Vincent Massey, 1968
Exhibition History
1926 AGT Canadian
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 78, as Early Spring?1934 Massey
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Contemporary Paintings by Artists of the United States, Canadian Paint¬ings, the Collection of Hon. Vincent and Mrs. Massey, and in the Print Room Scissor Cuts by René Kulbach, December 1934, no. 195, as Birches in Spring, or no. 199 as Birches and Rocks.1968 Massey
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Vincent Massey Bequest: The Canadian Paintings, September 20–October 20, 1968, no. 14.1990 Thomson
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 16–September 16, 1990.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 44, (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. 23.Published References
Times Weekly 1938
"Canadian Season by Canadian Artists." Times Week. Times Weekly Edition (London), 7 July 1938, (repr.)Thom 1990
Thom, Ian M. Tom Thomson. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue.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. 132, 150–1, 197 (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 Spring, Spring 1915 (1915.17)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=296 (accessed on May 3, 2024).