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Support: on wood »
Year(s): 1917 »
1917.08
Early Spring, Canoe Lake
Spring 1917
Oil on wood
8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., TOM THOMSON. 1917. / AUTHENTICATED / AND SIGNED BY / J.E.H. MACDONALD A.R.C.A. 1924 [or Aug. '21? (words or date indistinct)]

Inscription verso: in graphite, c., sketch of a bird with notations by Thomson, metal blue / orange / Brown, Old ivory; J.S. Fraser / Mowat Lodge / Canoe Lake / Mowat P.O. Ont; u.c., label, in red pencil and below in graphite, T.37 / Geo Chubb
Private collection, Toronto
Exhibition History
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 5.
Published References
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 191, 232 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, cover and 31 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: Design for a Canadian Hero. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998, plates facing 80 (repr. col.)
Murray, Joan. A Treasury of Tom Thomson. Vancouver, Toronto, Berkeley: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011, pp. 132–133 (repr. col.)
Record last updated April 22, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Early Spring, Canoe Lake, Spring 1917 (1917.08)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=644 (accessed on May 5, 2024).