Art canadien classique
Environs of Tangiers, 1913
54.6 x 73.7 cm
This work will be included in the James Wilson Morrice Catalogue Raisonné being compiled by Lucie Dorais.
Inscriptions
signed, 'J. W. Morrice' (lower left)Provenance
Galerie Simonson, Paris, 1926
Scott & Sons, Montréal, 1932
Philip MacKenzie, Montreal, by 1965
W. Allan Manford, Toronto, before 1970
Loch Galleries, 2006
Private collection, Toronto, 2006
Loch Galleries, 2016
Acquired from the above by the present private collection, Toronto
Expositions
Paris, Salon d'Automne, November 15, 1913 - January 5, 1914, no. 1536, as Tanger, les environs.
Possibly: Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, Memorial Exhibition, January 16 - February 15, 1925, no. 24, as Environs of Tangiers.
Paris, Galerie Simonson, Tableaux et études par J.W Morrice, January 9 - 23, 1926, as Environs de Tanger.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Scott & Sons J.W. Morrice Inventory, June 7 - 15, 1932; Montreal, Scott & Sons, April 2-23, 1932 no. 10, as Tangiers-Les Environs.
Toronto, Mellors Gallery, Scott & Sons J.W. Morrice Inventory, April 7 - 30, 1934, no. 11, as Tanger, -- Les environs.
Montreal, Scott & Sons, March, 1937, no. 9, as Environs of Tangiers.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Morrice Memorial Exhibition, 25 November - 27 December, 1937, no. 115; Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, January 8, 1938; Montreal, Art Association of Montreal, February, 1938.
Montreal, Scott & Sons, January - February, 1939, unknown no., as Environs of Tangiers.
Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924, September 30 - October 31, 1965; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, November 12 - December 5, 1965, no. 103, as Environs of Tangiers.
Calgary, Loch Galleries, Annual Exhibition & Sale Of Historical Works Of Significance, October 21-28, 2006.
Québec, Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec, Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse, May 8 - September 7, 2014, no. 39, as Tanger, les environs ; Kleinburg, Ontario, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, October 4, 2014 - January 4, 2015, no. 39, as Tangier, the Outskirts.
Alan Klinkhoff Gallery, James Wilson Morrice Retrospective Exhibition, Toronto from September 12 - 23, Montreal from September 26 - October 8, 2023, no. 10, as Environs of Tangiers.
Documentation
Marcel Pays, “À travers le Salon d’Automne,” Le Radical (Paris), November 15, 1913.
Adolphe Derveaux, “Notes sur l’art - Salon d’Automne,” La Plume (Paris), December 1, 1913.
Anon, "Show of Morrice Paintings on View," The Gazette (Montreal), April 6, 1932, 11.
Donald W. Buchanan, J.W. Morrice. A Biography (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1936), 175-176.
John Lyman, In the Galleries - At Scott's, manuscript [unpublished, intended for The Montrealer, Feb. 1, 1939], 3.
David G. Carter, J. W. Morrice: James Wilson Morrice 1865-1924 (Montreal: The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts and The National Gallery Of Canada, 1965), 48 [reproduced].
Mary McCarthy Hooper, “Henri Matisse in Morocco: The Winters of 1911-12 and 1912-13” (M.A. Thesis, City University of New York, 1981), 143.
Charles C. Hill, “Morrice at Montreal,” RACAR: Revue D’art Canadienne / Canadian Art Review 13, no. 1 (1986): 58.
Charles C. Hill, et al. Morrice: A Gift to the Nation: The G. Blair Laing Collection (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1992), 151 [reproduced].
Michèle Grandbois, Lucie Dorais, Richard Foisy, François-Marc Gagnon, Marc Gauthier and John O’Brian, Morrice and Lyman in the Company of Matisse, ed. Michèle Grandbois (Richmond Hill: Firefly Books Ltd, 2014), 89 [reproduced], 91, 224.
