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Michelle Wilson; © McMichael Canadian Art Collection
1909.01
Decorative Illustration: "Blessing" by Robert Burns
Alternate title: Burn's Blessing
1909
Watercolour, graphite and ink on paper
13 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (34.9 x 24.1 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., Tom Thomson 09
Inscription verso: (on brown paper), c., in pen, Copy? of commercial art / by Thomson / AYJ; label, Mackenzie & Co. Feb.? 1909
Inscription verso: (on brown paper), c., in pen, Copy? of commercial art / by Thomson / AYJ; label, Mackenzie & Co. Feb.? 1909
Provenance
Published References
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom
Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, (repr.), as Burns’ Blessing.
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr).
Mellen, Peter. The Group of Seven. Toronto, Montreal: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1970, p. 30.
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, p. 17.
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, p. 169 (repr. col.)
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, p. 33 (repr.)
Remarks
The McRuer’s marriage certificate is on file in the Library and Archives, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg.
Record last updated March 9, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Decorative Illustration: "Blessing" by Robert Burns, 1909 (1909.01)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=69 (accessed on May 16, 2024).