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Year(s): 1915 »
1915.71
Pine Trees at Sunset
Alternate title: Pines at Sunset
Summer 1915
Oil on composite wood-pulp board
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 21 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON

Inscription verso: in graphite, Green Walls; c., 3726 (upside down)
Private Collection, Toronto
Published References
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 50–51 and back cover (repr. col.)
Silcox, David P. Tom Thomson: An Introduction to his Life and Art. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2002, frontispiece (repr. col.) as Pines at Sunset.
Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2003, pp. 211, 246 (repr. col.)
King, Ross. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven. Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2011, p. 415.
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 64–65 (repr. col.)
Remarks

G. Blair Laing did not recall selling this work and therefore it must have come directly from the artist’s estate into the hands of a collector, likely through the good offices of Thomson’s friends in the Group of Seven.

Record last updated May 11, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Pine Trees at Sunset, Summer 1915 (1915.71)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=350 (accessed on March 29, 2024).