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Medium: Oil »
Support: on canvas »
Year(s): 1915 »   //  1916 »
1915-1916.20
Silver Birches
Alternate title: Birch Glade, Evening, Canoe Lake
Winter 1915–16
Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 22 1/16 in. (40.9 x 56 cm)
Inscription verso: label, Mellors Fine Arts
on back Sketch #18-1915, from Mellors Fine Art Gallery 1941, #82 Mrs. Thomson
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Pictures from the Collection of Col. and Mrs. R.S. McLaughlin, October–November 1947, as Birch Glade, Evening, Canoe Lake.
Canadian National Exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Private Collectors' Choice in Canadian Art Sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society, August 1959, as Silver Birches.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 82, (repr.) 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.
McMichael Canadian Collection, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, Selections from the McMichael Canadian Collection, December 1982–December 1984. Traveled to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin; Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Neenah, Wisconsin; The Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee; Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, Missouri; Midland Art Council of the Midland Center for the Arts, Inc, Midland, Michigan; South Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, South Dakota; North Dakota State University Art Gallery, Fargo, North Dakota; University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, Iowa; The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota; Rahr West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 107, (repr.)
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 84, (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.
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, R.S McLaughlin Collections, March 18–May 9, 2004. (repr. col.)
Published References
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, as 1914 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 41–42, 81, 94 (repr.)
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 170, as 1914 (repr.)
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, as 1914 194–195 (repr. col.)
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 325.
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. 135, 239 (repr. col.)
Aurandt, David and Linda Jansma. R.S McLaughlin Collections. Oshawa: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, cover, 25 (repr. col.)
Chase, Christie. "The Art of Coming Home." This Week (Oshawa), 19 March 2004, (repr.)
Record last updated May 9, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Silver Birches, Winter 1915–16 (1915-1916.20)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=431 (accessed on April 28, 2024).