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Catalogue entry
1915.59
Water Flowers
Alternate titles: Water Lilies; Water Plants (lilies, cats'tail and water hyacinth); Wild Flowers
Summer 1915
Oil on wood
8 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (21.3 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; l. of stamp in brushed ink, SB / in graphite, NOT FOR SALE; u.l., in graphite, Spring [crossed out] 1916; b.c., in graphite, Pickerel Weed / White Waterlilies / Yellow Lilies; c.r., in graphite, 17 M Thomson; label, Mellors Fine Arts, 759 Yonge St., as Water Flowers"
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; l. of stamp in brushed ink, SB / in graphite, NOT FOR SALE; u.l., in graphite, Spring [crossed out] 1916; b.c., in graphite, Pickerel Weed / White Waterlilies / Yellow Lilies; c.r., in graphite, 17 M Thomson; label, Mellors Fine Arts, 759 Yonge St., as Water Flowers"
Provenance
Estate of artist
Margaret Thomson Tweedale, Toronto
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto, before 1941
Pearl Sutton, Oshawa, Ontario
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1976.20). Purchased 1976
Exhibition History
1919 Thomson
Arts Club, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Thomson, March 1, 1919, no. 21, as Water Plants (lilies, cats' tail and water hyacinth) or no. 65 Water Lilies, lent by H. Mortimer-Lamb? Traveled to: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, March 25–April 12, 1919.1939 Thomson
Mellors Galleries, Toronto, Exhibition of the Work of Tom Thomson and J.E.H. MacDonald, February 1–18, 1939, no. 48, as Wild Flowers?1986 Atlanta
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Advent of Modernism: Post-Impressionism and North American Art, 1900 - 1918, March 5–May 11, 1986. (repr. col.) Traveled to: Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.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. 56, (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
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 113, 230 (repr. col.)Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 58 as 1916 (repr. col.)Murray 2002
Murray, Joan. Flowers: J.E.H MacDonald, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2002, pp. 13, 106–197 (repr. col.)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. 82, 133, 209 (repr. col.)Murray 2011
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 54–55 (repr. col.)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. ""Water Flowers, Summer 1915 (1915.59)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=338 (accessed on May 18, 2024).