OSA
1877 - 1917
Canadian
Tamarack Swamp
oil on panel, fall 1915
stamped with the estate stamp and on verso inscribed "1st class" in Lawren Harris's hand, "Sketch #5", "Property of Harkness" (crossed out)" and variously and stamped with the estate stamp
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in, 21.6 x 26.7 cm
Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Vancouver
PROVENANCE
Estate of the Artist
Elizabeth Thomson Harkness, sister of the Artist, Owen Sound
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto
Acquired from the above by a Private Collection, Ontario, 1939
Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, May 22, 2008, lot 45
The Collection of Torben V. Kristiansen, Vancouver
LITERATURE
Harold Town and David P. Silcox, Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm, 1977, titled as Tamarack, reproduced page 167 and listed page 231
David Silcox, The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, 2003, reproduced page 281 and listed page 421
Joan Murray, A Treasury of Tom Thomson, 2011, discussed page 74, reproduced pages 14 (detail) and 75
Ian A.C. Dejardin and Sarah Milroy, editors, Tom Thomson: North Star, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2023, reproduced page 109, listed page 266
EXHIBITED
Mellors Fine Arts, Toronto, Exhibition of the Work of Tom Thomson and J.E.H. MacDonald, February 1 – 18, 1939, catalogue #44
Galerie Eric Klinkhoff, Montreal, Tom Thomson: Annual Loan Exhibition, November 5 – 19, 2022, catalogue #22
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Tom Thomson: North Star, June 24, 2023 – January 14, 2024, traveling in 2024 to the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, and the Audain Art Museum, Whistler
For full cataloguing, essay and images in PDF format, please click here.
For the biography on Torben V. Kristiansen in PDF format, please click here.
Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,600,000 CAD
All prices are in Canadian Dollars
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