Spring Ice is a 1915–16 oil painting by Canadian painter Tom Thomson. The work was inspired by a sketch completed on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park. The completed canvas is large, measuring 72.0 cm × 10
Tom Thomson, Spring Ice
River, March–April 1915. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Opening of the Rivers: Sketch for "Spring Ice", Spring 1915. Oil on composite wood-pulp board, 21.6 × 26.7 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Advertising or calendar drawing, Fall–winter 1912. Location unknown
Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in
Spring Ice
…Building, an artist's enclave in Rosedale, Toronto. Curator Charles Hill has written that the Sketch for Spring Ice was almost certainly done with A. Y. Jackson's 1914 canvas A Frozen Lake in mind. Thomson likely saw the painting in November 1914 before Jackson took it away in December to be exhibited. The…
Jackson at work in the Studio Building, Toronto, 1944
Red Maple (1914), by A. Y. Jackson
Group of seven artists: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Fairley, Frank Johnston (artist), Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald
Cathedral at Ypres, Belgium, 1917, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario