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Provenance:

Marion Long, Toronto, ON
Arthur H. Birks, Ottawa, ON
Private Collection, Ottawa, ON

Literature:

Joan Murray, The Best of Tom Thomson (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1986), 17 repro. b/w as Quotation from Kipling.
Joan Murray, Tom Thomson: The Last Spring (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1994),15 repro. b/w as Illustration of a quotation from Rudyard Kipling.
Robert Stacey, "Tom Thomson as Applied Artist," in Tom Thomson (exh. cat.) (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada; Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario; Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2002), 61, fig. 27 repro. b/w as "quotation from The Light That Failed."
Sherril E. Grace, Inventing Tom Thomson: From Biographical Fictions to Fictional Autobiographies and Reproductions (Montreal/ Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004), 70, repro b/w, 71-81.
Joan Murray, "Decorative Design: Quotation from The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling," Tom Thomson: Catalogue Raisonné, accessed 14 Mar 2024, https://www.tomthomsoncatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=443

Exhibited:

Exhibition of Paintings by Tom Thomson and Horatio Walker, Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 3 Jan-2 Feb 1941, as Decorations (small).

Note:

Reflecting contemporary literary taste, Tom Thomson’s Decorative Design: Quotation from "The Light That Failed" by Rudyard Kipling, reminds us of the richness of his life and career. With fluid Arts and Crafts design and the skillful lettering for which he was known, this modest and intimate work has been cited in the major literature on Thomson published in the last half century, oftentimes reproduced with archival images and unknown collection information.

Now at auction for the first time, Thomson prepared this passage from Kipling’s 1891 novel for his fellow artist and resident of The Studio Building, Marion Long.