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Support: on canvas »
Year(s): 1915 »   //  1916 »
1915-1916.01
Opulent October
Winter 1915–16
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 30 7/16 in. (54 x 77.3 cm)
Private collection
Exhibition History
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 57, lent by J.S. Lawson, Toronto.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, 0, no. VIII (repr. col.) Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 31.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Collector's Canada: Selections from a Toronto Private Collection, May 14–July 10, 1988, no. 55, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Musée du Québec, Quebec City, September 21–October 30, 1988; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, January 20–March 5, 1989; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, March 23–May 7, 1989.
Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, Hommage à Walter Klinkhoff, September 1998.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 82, (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
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 41, 56, 60 (repr. col.)
Kritzwiser, Kay. "The Essential Tom Thomson." Globe and Mail (Toronto), 1977.
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, pp. 48–49 (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. 79, 135, 237 (repr. col.)
Record last updated May 27, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Opulent October, Winter 1915–16 (1915-1916.01)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=412 (accessed on May 2, 2024).