| Spring Ice | |
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| Artist | Tom Thomson |
| Year | Winter 1915–16 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72.0 cm × 102.3 cm (28.3 in × 40.3 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
| Accession | 1195 |
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 × 102.3 cm (28.3 in × 40.3 in). Painted over the winter of 1915–16, it was completed in Thomson's shack behind the Studio Building in Toronto. The painting was produced as he was in the peak of his short art career and is considered one of his most notable works. While exhibited in a show put on by the Ontario Society of Artists, the work received mixed to positive reviews. In 1916 it was purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and has remained in the collection ever since.