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Support: on wood panel »
Year(s): 1916 »
1916.44
The Waterfall, Spring
Alternate title: The Waterfall in Spring
Spring 1916
Oil on wood panel
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.l., TOM THOMSON
Private Collection
Exhibition History
Arts Club, Montreal, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Tom Thomson, March 1, 1919, no. 22. Traveled to: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, March 25–April 12, 1919.
Sarnia Conservation Committee, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Little Picture Show, March 1923, as The Waterfall in Spring.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 54.
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 80, lent by James M. MacCallum.
Published References
"A Gift to the Nation." 2, no. 1 (October-November 1944), p. 2 (repr.)
Buchanan, Donald W. Canadian Painters from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven. Oxford & London: Phaidon Press, 1945, fig. 44 (repr.) as 1915.
Robertson, John K. B. "Canadian Geography and Canadian Painting." Canadian Geographic Journal 39, no. 6 (December 1949), p. 266 (repr.)
Hubbard, R.H. National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Vol. III, Canadian School. Ottawa, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1960, p. 302 (repr.)
Hubbard, R.H. The Gallery of Canadian Art, 2 Tom Thomson. Toronto: Society For Art Publications and McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1962, fig. 9 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. , p. 37 (repr.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 73 (repr.)
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. ""The Waterfall, Spring, Spring 1916 (1916.44)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=486 (accessed on May 3, 2024).