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Medium: Oil »
Year(s): 1912 »
1912.05
Fairy Lake
1912
Oil on paperboard (Birchmore board)
6 15/16 x 8 15/16 in. (17.7 x 22.7 cm)
Inscription recto: l.r., Tom Thomson/ '12 (?) (incised)

Inscription verso: (label): George Rowney & Co.,/ Birchmore Board/ London, Eng.
Exhibition History
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Art of Tom Thomson, October 30–December 12, 1971, no. 5, (repr.) 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.
Published References
Dulmage, Paul. "Toronto Shrine to Receive Donation." Swift Current Sun (Saskatchewan), 6 September 1963, (repro.)
Duval, Paul. The McMichael Conservation Collection: A Catalogue of Outstanding Work by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1967, as 1910 (repr.)
Duval, Paul. Canadian Art: Vital Decades, McMichael Conservation Collection. Toronto, Vancouver: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1970, (repr).
Murray, Joan. The Art of Tom Thomson. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1971. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 24, 65 (repr.)
Duval, Paul. A Vision of Canada: McMichael Canadian Collection. Toronto: Sampson Matthews Limited, 1973, p. 169 (repr.)
Town, Harold, and David P. Silcox. Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977, pp. 40, 42, 228 (repro. col.) as oil on canvas panel [sic].
Remarks

Thomson could have painted the work in the area of Huntsville. He and the owner, Edgar Burke, and Burke were good friends, beginning with their time as roommates in Toronto on Gerrard Street when Burke attended college, in 1909. Burke was the model for Young Fisherman, c.1905 (1905.05) (McMichael (1966.16.57) and owned three other works by Thomson in the McMichael: Sailboat, c.1906 (1906.06) (McMichael 1966.16.62), Girl Looking in Mirror, 1903 (1903.01) (1981.205), and Head of a Woman, 1907 (1907.01) (1966.16.56) as well as Design for a Stained-Glass Window, Havergal College, c.1908 (1908.07) (AGO 81/132) (see Dulmage, 1963).

Record last updated March 4, 2016. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Murray, Joan. ""Fairy Lake, 1912 (1912.05)." In Tom Thomson Catalogue Raisonné. www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=98 (accessed on March 28, 2024).