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Year(s): 1916 »
1916.01
Decorative Design: Quotation from The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling
Alternate title: Decorations (small)
Spring 1916
Gouache and ink on paper
10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (26.3 x 18.1 cm)
Inscription verso: in ink, This design was done for me / by Tom Thomson / in the Spring of 1916 / Marion Long; in graphite, Sample 22. $2.50 / Miss Long; label, AGT Dec. 28/40
Provenance
Marion Long, Toronto
A.H. Birks, Ottawa
Location Unknown
Exhibition History
1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941, as Decorations (small), as one of Decorations (small) lent by Marion Long, Toronto.
Published References
Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 17 (repr.)
Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 15 (repr).
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, p. 61 (repr.)
Grace 2004
Grace, Sherrill E. Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004, p. 70 (repr.)
Remarks

Thomson took the quote from Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed (1913), 144.

Record last updated February 29, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Decorative Design: Quotation from The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling, Spring 1916 (1916.01)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=443 (accessed on April 28, 2024).