Tom Thomson
In the Northland
Tom Thomson
Claremont, Ontario, 1877 – Canoe Lake, Ontario, 1917
In the Northland
1915
Oil on canvas
101.7 x 114.5 cm
Purchase, gift of Dr. Francis J. Shepherd, Sir Vincent Meredith, Drs. Lauterman and W. Gardner and Mrs. Hobart Molson, inv. 1922.179
Quebec and Canadian Art
Based on a small oil sketch made in Algonquin Park in the fall of 1915, two years before the artist drowned in Canoe Lake, this masterful large-format painting was acquired in 1922 by the Art Association of Montreal (now the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). The Association was the third institution in the country to acquire a canvas by Tom Thomson. In his writeup of the Spring Exhibition in March 1922, the Montreal Herald critic stated, “To many, the most interesting picture in the exhibition is a large canvas representative of the work of the late Tom Thomson.”
