1915.20
Wild Cherries, Spring
Alternate title: Sunrise
Spring 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; t., in graphite, Wild Cherries May 1915; on backing, on red bordered label, in graphite, Wild Cherries / Spring / 2 (circled); u.c., in graphite, 1st class
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; t., in graphite, Wild Cherries May 1915; on backing, on red bordered label, in graphite, Wild Cherries / Spring / 2 (circled); u.c., in graphite, 1st class
Provenance
Exhibition History
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. 5, as Sunrise.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 46, (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.
Published References
Berton, Pierre. "Robert McMichael and His Remarkable Obsession." Toronto Daily Star, 8 May 1961.
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom
Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, as Sunrise 1917 (repr.)
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, as 1916B17 (repr. col.)
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 25, 172 (repr. col.)
p. 17 (repr. col.)
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 139.
McMichael Canadian Collection of Art. McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, 1965-1990. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1989, p. 21 as Sunrise c. 1915 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, pp. 63, 64 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 96–97 (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. 132, 199 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 42–43 (repr. col.)
Remarks
(1970) Joan Murray read verso inscription, in graphite, as Wild Cherries in Spring – May 1915.
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. ""Wild Cherries, Spring, Spring 1915 (1915.20)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=299 (accessed on May 6, 2024).