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Support: on wood panel »
Year(s): 1916 »
1916.93
The Dead Pine
Alternate title: Lone Pine
Fall 1916
Oil on wood panel
10 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (26.7 x 21.4 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., estate stamp

Inscription verso: c., estate stamp; c., in graphite, Reserved / Studio Bldg; u.l., in graphite, 14 / #4; u.m., in graphite, RAL (crossed out) for RA Laidlaw / WCL (circled below) for WC Laidlaw; u.m., in red crayon, 28 (circled); l.r., in green crayon, 18 (upside down); l.r., in graphite, #3 (written on side); label, 5 / 111
Provenance
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian Paintings, 1926, no. 87.
Mellors Galleries, 759 Yonge Street, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Works by Tom Thomson, Mellors Galleries, March 13–31, 1937, no. 17, lent by Walter C. Laidlaw, Toronto.
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Sketches on Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Toronto, October–November 1949, no. 28.
Canadian National Exhibition, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Private Collectors' Choice in Canadian Art Sponsored by the Canadian Cancer Society, August 1959, lent by W.C. Laidlaw.
Published References
Davies, Blodwen. Tom Thomson: The Story of a Man Who Looked for Beauty and for Truth in the Wilderness. Vancouver: Mitchell Press Limited, 1967, page facing 89 (repr. col.)
Addison, Ottelyn, Elizabeth Harwood. Tom Thomson, The Algonquin Years. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969, plate facing 42 (repr. col.) as The Lone Pine.
Shields, Conal ed. Ken Thomson The Collector: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto: Skylet Publishing and The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2008, p. 143 (repr.col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 104–105 (repr. col.)
Record last updated June 14, 2018. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""The Dead Pine, Fall 1916 (1916.93)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=534 (accessed on March 28, 2024).