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© Art Gallery of Ontario
1915.98
Man with Axe (Larry [sic] Dickson Splitting Wood)
Alternate title: Untitled (Larry Dixon Splitting Wood)
Fall 1915
Oil on panel
8 1/2 x 10 9/16 in. (21.6 x 26.8 cm)
Inscription verso: l.c., in graphite, Larry Dixon; c. in black grease pencil, Sketch #19; beneath c., in graphite, T-T-24; u.l., in graphite, Canoe Lake 1915
Provenance
Estate of the artist
George Thomson, Owen Sound
Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1948
Stewart and Letty Bennett, Toronto, 1948
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (L83.15). Bequest of Stewart and Letty Bennett, Georgetown, Ontario, 1982, donated by the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1988
Exhibition History
1984 Bennett
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, The Ontario Heritage Foundation, Stewart and Letty Bennett Collection, March 2–May 29, 1984, no. 56, (repr. col.), as Untitled (Larry Dixon Splitting Wood). Traveled to: Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, June 8–24, 1984; Lynnwood Arts Centre, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, July 6–29, 1984; Laurentian University Museum and Arts Centre, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, August 29–September 23, 1984; Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, October 25–November 18, 1984; Sarnia Public Library and Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, December 7, 1984–January 8, 1985; Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, January 24–February 17, 1985; Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, March 7–30, 1985.Published References
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 137 (repr. col.)Remarks
Lowery Dickson was a guide and friend of Tom Thomson’s at Canoe Lake (see Lowery Dickson's Shack, Spring 1914 (1914.01)). His name is sometimes incorrectly spelled “Larry” or “Lowrie” “Dixon.”
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. ""Man with Axe (Larry [sic] Dickson Splitting Wood), Fall 1915 (1915.98)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=377 (accessed on May 18, 2024).