loading 
Catalogue entry
© Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery
Related
loading
1915.125
Nocturne
Alternate title: Forest Spires
Fall 1915
Oil on plywood
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.6 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; to right of stamp, in red, TT #49; below stamp, in black crayon, Sketch #21; u.l., in graphite, Nocturne - 1915 [4 written over 5]; u.l., in graphite on label, Nocturne, 7, in softer graphite, Forest Spires; u.r., in graphite, #373; c.r., in graphite, From collection of / Dr. J.M. MacCallum / Toronto; b.c., in graphite, No. 33 Mrs. Harkness
Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; to right of stamp, in red, TT #49; below stamp, in black crayon, Sketch #21; u.l., in graphite, Nocturne - 1915 [4 written over 5]; u.l., in graphite on label, Nocturne, 7, in softer graphite, Forest Spires; u.r., in graphite, #373; c.r., in graphite, From collection of / Dr. J.M. MacCallum / Toronto; b.c., in graphite, No. 33 Mrs. Harkness
Provenance
Estate of artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, Annan and Owen Sound
Dr. J.M. MacCallum, Toronto
D.M. Dunlop, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery (52.8). Gift in Memory of Robert A. de Lotbiniere Harwood by his Friends, 1952
Exhibition History
1979 Victoria
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Nationalism in Canadian Art, January 31–March 30, 1979, no. 23.1990 Thomson
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 16–September 16, 1990. (repr. col.)1998–99 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, James Wilson Morrice and His Contemporaries, July 15, 1998–January 10, 1999.2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 76, (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, 2003.2006 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 75 Years of Collecting: Group of Seven, February 4–May 14, 2006.2008 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, January 26–April 20, 2008.2009 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Exploring Light: Canadian Landscape Paintings from the Collection, January 31–April 19, 2009.2014 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Painted Past, June 28–October 19, 2014.Published References
Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, p. 37n37 as 1914.Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 85 (repr. col.)Thom 1990
Thom, Ian M. Tom Thomson. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1990. Exhibition catalogue, (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. 79, 134, 229 (repr. col.), 332n127.Record last updated July 4, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Nocturne, Fall 1915 (1915.125)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=405 (accessed on May 19, 2024).