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Catalogue entry
1917.12
Birches
Alternate title: Northern Sunset
Spring 1917
Oil on wood panel
5 1/16 x 7 3/8 in. (12.9 x 18.7 cm)
Inscription verso: u.r., loaned by / Mr. J.T. Thomson...Brownsburg, Quebec, 1973; (1970) in ink on brown paper backing, Property of / Mr. & Mrs. Geo.T.Thomson Dec. 1917 One of the two sketches sent / to me by Grandfather, / among the sketches left by / Tom Thomson at his / death in 1917; G. M. Thomson; in graphite, Northern Sunset by Tom T.; u.c., label, G.M. Thomson/ 38 Wellington St. / Brantford, Ont.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
George T. Thomson, New Haven, Connecticut and Owen Sound, 1917
George M. Thomson, Brantford, by descent
James T. Thomson, Beaconsfield, Quebec, by descent
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg (1979.15). Purchased 1979
Exhibition History
1995 Thomson
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Tom Thomson. The Last Spring, May 4, 1995–January 7, 1996, no. 21.2011 Dulwich
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, October 19, 2011–January 8, 2012, no. 40, Pl. 35 (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
Murray 1986a
Murray, Joan. The Best of Tom Thomson. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986, p. 85 (repr. col.)Murray 1994a
Murray, Joan. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994, p. 39 (repr. col.)Dejardin 2011
Dejardin, Ian. Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, p. 102 (repr. col.)Record last updated February 16, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Birches, Spring 1917 (1917.12)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=648 (accessed on May 5, 2024).