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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
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Malloney Galleries
J.S. Lawson, Toronto
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto, 1941?
Col. R.S. McLaughlin, Oshawa, 1941
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1968.7.12). Gift of Col. R.S. McLaughlin, Oshawa, 1968
Exhibition History
1947 McLaughlin
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.1959 CNE
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.1971 Thomson
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, 1972.1982 McMichael
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.1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 107, (repr.)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. 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, 2003.2004 Oshawa
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, R.S McLaughlin Collections, March 18–May 9, 2004. (repr. col.)Published References
Duval 1970
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, as 1914 (repr.)Murray 1971
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 41–42, 81, 94 (repr.)Duval 1973
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, pp. 170, as 1914 (repr.)Boulet 1982
Boulet, Roger. The Canadian Earth: Landscape Paintings by the Group of Seven. Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1982, as 1914 194–195 (repr. col.)McMichael, R 1986
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, p. 325.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. 135, 239 (repr. col.)Aurandt 2004
Aurandt, David and Linda Jansma. R.S McLaughlin Collections. Oshawa: The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2004. Exhibition catalogue, cover, 25 (repr. col.)Chase 2004
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 May 12, 2024).