1916.40
Burnt-Over Forest
Alternate title: Burnt Timber
Spring 1916
Oil on wood panel
8 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. (21.5 x 26.6 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON (incised)
Inscription verso: in ink, to be the property / of Ruth Ina Thomson / daughter of John C. Thomson; in ink, I declare this to be an original sketch / by Tom Thomson Fraser Thomson
Inscription verso: in ink, to be the property / of Ruth Ina Thomson / daughter of John C. Thomson; in ink, I declare this to be an original sketch / by Tom Thomson Fraser Thomson
Private Collection
Provenance
Exhibition History
London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, George Thomson 1868 -, July 6–September 6, 1957, no. 8, or 9?
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 18, or 19?
Published References
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 88 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. , p. 35 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, pp. 70, 71 (repr.)
Remarks
This may be one of the two sketches of “Burnt Timber” owned by Fraser Thomson and recorded by Martin Baldwin in his list of 7 May 1937.
Record last updated February 26, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Burnt-Over Forest, Spring 1916 (1916.40)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=482 (accessed on April 17, 2024).