1915-1916.26
The Birch Grove, Autumn
Alternate title: Birch and Rocks, Autumn
Winter 1915–16
Oil on canvas
40 x 46 in. (101.6 x 116.8 cm)
Inscription verso: l.r., on canvas, 24; stretcher: horizontal cross bar, in graphite, FRANK WORRALL / LINER / 28-2-61; on c. bar, BIRCH GROVE AUTUMN / BY TOM THOMSON / 1877-1917
Provenance
Exhibition History
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson Exhibition, 1877 - 1917, September–October 1956, no. 7.
Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, May 27–June 11, 1967, no. 4, lent by the Hamilton Club.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 111, (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.
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Stand by Your Man or Annie Crawford Hurn: My Life with Tom Thomson, March 17–May 27, 2001. Traveled to: Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, June 24–August 27, 2001; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 22, 2001–February 2, 2002.
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 78, (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. 45, 88, 96 (repr.)
Reid. Tom Thomson: The Jack Pine. 5, Masterpieces in the National Gallery of Canada, The National Gallery of Canada. Ottawa: 1975, p. 23 as 1916–17.
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 168 (repr. col.)
Laing, G. Blair. Memoirs of an Art Dealer. Vol. 1. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979, p. 78.
McMichael, Robert. "One Man's Obsession." One Man's Obsession. Scarborough: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1986, pp. 200–205.
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989). Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1989, pp. 25, pl. 66 (repr. col.)
Walton, Paul H. "The Group of Seven and Northern Development." RACAR 17, no. 2 (1990), pp. 173, 205 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Trees. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 1999, pp. 110–11 as c. 1916–17 (repr. col.)
Hunter, Andrew. Stand by Your Man or Anne Crawford Hurn: My Life with Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2001. Exhibition catalogue, p. 18 (repr.)
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, 134–135, 232–33 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Rocks: Franklin Carmichael, Arthur Lismer and the Group of Seven. Toronto: McArthur & Company, 2006, pp. 92–93 (repr. col.)
Remarks
Frank Worrall was a conservator who must have worked on the painting in 1961.
Record last updated May 3, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""The Birch Grove, Autumn, Winter 1915–16 (1915-1916.26)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=437 (accessed on May 12, 2024).