1906.08
Decorative Landscape: "Blessing" by Robert Burns
Alternate titles: Burn's Blessing; Triptych (letter from Brian Stratton OHF to M Mitchell, TTAG 1987)
c.1906
Watercolour, and ink over graphite on pasteboard
12 3/16 x 9 1/8 in. (31 x 23.1 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., Tom Thomson
Provenance
Exhibition History
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 35.
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, October 2, 2010–January 30, 2011, as 1909.
Published References
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 33 (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. 51–52, 329n19 (repr.) as Burns’ Blessing.
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, p. 25 (repr. col.)
Remarks
A letter of Henry Thomson, 19 October 1946, Library and Archives, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, mentions the work.
Record last updated May 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Decorative Landscape: "Blessing" by Robert Burns, c.1906 (1906.08)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=32 (accessed on May 20, 2024).