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Catalogue entry
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
Estate of the artist
Fraser Thomson, Seattle and Outremont, P.Q.
John C. Thomson, Seattle, by descent
Ruth Ina Thomson, Seattle, by descent
Rev. and Mrs. P.G. McCready, Toronto, 1970
Allan J. McCready, Port Hope, by descent
Private Collection
Exhibition History
1957 Thomson London
London Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ontario, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, George Thomson 1868 -, July 6–September 6, 1957, no. 8, or 9?1957 Thomson Windsor
Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Tom Thomson 1877 - 1917, October 6–November 2, 1957, no. 18, or 19?Published References
Town & Silcox 1977
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 88 (repr. col.)Murray 1991
Murray, Joan. , p. 35 (repr.)Murray 1994a
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 30, 2024).