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1916-1917.15
The West Wind
Alternate title: West Wind, Algonquin Park
Winter 1916–17
Oil on canvas
47 1/2 x 54 5/16 in. (120.7 x 137.9 cm)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (784). Gift of the Canadian Club, Toronto, 1926
Exhibition History
1917 CNE
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition Department of Fine Arts, August 25–September 10, 1917, no. 214, (repr.), as West Wind, Algonquin Park.1920 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson, February 13–29, 1920, no. 41.1920 Worcester
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Paintings by the "Group of Seven" Canadian Artists, November 7, 1920, no. 30. Traveled to: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 1–31, 1920; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, January 1–February 15, 1921 (as A Collection of Oil Painting by the Canadian "Group of Seven" and Water Colors by Nine American Artists); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, March 1921 (as Oil Paintings by "Group of Seven" Canadian Artists: Work of Mahoning Society of Painters, Youngstown, Ohio, Pictorial Photographs of Greece); Art Association of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, April 1921 (as Exhibition of Paintings by Canadian Artists); Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 1921; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, July 8–August 29, 1921; Buffalo Fine Arts Academy Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, September 10–October 3, 1921 (as Three Special Exhibitions: Paintings of China by Frederick Clay Bartlett, Paintings of Louise Upton Brumback, Paintings by the 'Group of Seven" Can); Columbus Art Association, Columbus, Ohio, October 1921 (as Paintings by the "Group of Seven" Canadian Artists); Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, December 1921; Hackley Gallery of Art, Muskegon, Michigan, January 1922.1922 Thomson Owen Sound
1922, no. 31.1922 OSA Retrospective
Ontario Society of Artists, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Retrospective Loan Exhibition of the Works of Members of the Ontario Society of Artists Covering the First Half-Century of the Society's History, February 11–March 12, 1922, no. 170.1924 Wembley
British Empire, Palace of Fine Arts, Wembley Park, London, British Empire Exhibition, Section of Fine Arts, April 23–October 31, 1924, no. 239. Traveled to: Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, November 12–December 12, 1924; Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom, December 1924–January 17, 1925; City of Birmingham Municipal Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, January 30–March 31, 1925.1926 Ottawa
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Special Exhibition of Canadian Art, January 21–February 28, 1926, no. 62.1926 AGT Inaugural
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Inaugural Exhibition, January 29–February 28, 1926, no. 259.1926 Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Paintings, Sculpture and Prints in the Department of Fine Arts, Sesquicentennial International Exposition, July 24, 1926, no. 1550.1927 Paris
Musée & du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Exposition d'art canadien, April 10–May 10, 1927, no. 230.1927 Saskatoon
Nutana Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 11–12, 1927.1932 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Imperial Economic Conference, July 18, 1932–January 23, 1933, no. 2.1935 AGT
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, The Permanent Collection of Oil and Water Colour Paintings as Arranged for Exhibition, Summer, 1935, July 6, 1935, no. 69.1935 AGT Margaret Eaton
Art Gallery of Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Paintings Celebrating the Opening of the Margaret Eaton Gallery and the East Gallery, November 8, 1935, no. 154.1939 San Francisco
Gold Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, Contemporary Art, 1939, no. 24.1941 Thomson
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Horatio Walker - Tom Thomson, January 1941.1942 London
Elsie Perrin Williams Memorial Public Library & Art Museum, London, Ontario, Milestones of Canadian Art: A Retrospective Exhibition of Canadian Art from Paul Kane and Kreighoff to the Contemporary Painters, from 9 January 1942, no. 42.1944 AGT
Navy League of Canada (Ontario Division), Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Loan Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, February 4–March 5, 1944, no. 74.1944 New Haven
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Canadian Art, 1760 - 1943, March 11–April 16, 1944.1944 Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, [unknown title], November 16, 1944–January 1, 1945. (repr.)1945 DPC
1945, no. 133.1948 CNE
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canadian Painting and Sculpture Owned by Canadians, August 27–September 11, 1948, no. 20.1953 Hamilton
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Inaugural Exhibition, December 1953–January 1954, no. 51, (repr.)1954 VAG
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Group of Seven, March 29–April 25, 1954, no. 63, (repr.)1957 AGT
Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Comparisons: An Exhibition Organized by the Art Gallery of Toronto, January 11–February 3, 1957, no. 78.1966 Vancouver
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Images for a Canadian Heritage, September 1966, no. 70.1967 NGC (2)
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, May 12–September 17, 1967, no. 200, (repr.) Traveled to: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 20–November 26, 1967.1968 Owen Sound
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, First Anniversary Exhibition, May 24–June 9, 1968, no. 7.1970 NGC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, The Group of Seven, June 19–September 8, 1970, no. 68, (repr.) Traveled to: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, September 22–October 31, 1970.1971 Thomson
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, 0, no. XVI (repr. col.) Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, January 15–February 3, 1972; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 25–March 31, 1972; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, April 14–May 28, 1972; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2–September 5, 1972.1977 Thomson
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery and Museum of Fine Art, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, The Tom Thomson Memorial Exhibition, May 4–June 1, 1977, no. 1.1981 Tokyo
National Gallery of Canada, National Museum of Art, Tokyo, Twentieth Century Canadian Painting, July 9–August 2, 1981, no. 26, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, August 29–September 20, 1981; Oita Prefectural Art Centre, Oita, Japan, October 1–28, 1981.1982 Berlin
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, OKANADA, December 5, 1982–January 30, 1983, no. 59. Traveled to: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, February 8–March 20, 1983.1984 West Palm Beach
Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century Canadian Painting, March 18–April 29, 1984. (repr. col.)1991 Barbican
Barbican Art Gallery, London, The True North: Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939, April 19–June 16, 1991, no. 113, (repr. col.)2002 Thomson
National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tom Thomson, June 7–September 8, 2002, no. 131, (repr. col.) Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2002–January 5, 2003; Musée du Québec, Quebec City, February 6–April 3, 2003; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, May 30–September 7, 2003; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, September 29–December 7, 2003.2004 St. Petersburg
Art Gallery of Ontario, Alexander Hall, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, Tom Thomson, September 10–November 14, 2004, no. 54, (repr.col.)2011 Dulwich
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, October 19, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 8, Fig. 22, Pl. 12 (repr. col.) Traveled to: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, January 29–May 13, 2012; The Groninger Museum, Groninger, the Netherlands, June 3–October 28, 2012.Published References
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Many different locations have been suggested for the painting. Dr. MacCallum recalled that it was on a trip to Lake Cauchon which he took with Thomson, Lawren Harris, and Harris’s cousin Chester Harris, that Thomson painted his sketch for that painting, as he wrote in a letter to Miss A.L. Beatty, at the Art Gallery of Toronto, May 14, 1937, (Edward P. Taylor Research Library and Archives, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto). The most recent theory, by Stan Verscay of Bowmanville, is that Thomson painted the sketch at Manitou Lake.
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Citation: Murray, Joan. ""The West Wind, Winter 1916–17 (1916-1917.15)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=634 (accessed on May 17, 2024).