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Year(s): 1915 »   //  1916 »
1915-1916.21
After the Sleet Storm
Alternate title: Sleet Storm in the Cedar Bush
Winter 1915–16
Oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 22 3/16 in. (40.9 x 56.3 cm)
Inscription verso: in black paint, After the Sleet Storm / –by- / Tom Thomson / authenticated by / his brother Geo. Thomson; on stretcher, u.r., in ink, J.MacD; in ballpoint on label, 78-25 / T. THOMSON / AFTER THE / SLEETSTORM
Provenance
Estate of the artist
George Thomson, Owen Sound
Mellors-Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1941
Dr. George Henderson, Halifax
Private collection, Calgary, by descent
Laing Galleries, Toronto, 1978
Private collection, Toronto
Thomson Collection @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition History
1920 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 23.
1951 Halifax
Halifax Memorial Library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, The Development of Canadian Painting, from 12 November 1951, no. 35, (repr.), collection of Mrs. George H. Henderson.
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. 83, (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
Laing 1979
Laing, G. Blair. Memoirs of an Art Dealer. Vol. 1. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979, pp. 68, 78, as Sleet Storm in the Cedar Bush (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, 135, 148–49, 238 (repr. col.)
Murray 2008
Murray, Joan. "Tom Thomson: Trailblazer and Guide." In Canadian Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Skylet Publishing, 2008, p. 111 (repr.col.)
Record last updated May 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""After the Sleet Storm, Winter 1915–16 (1915-1916.21)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=432 (accessed on April 24, 2024).