Alexander Young Jackson 1882 - 1974

Estimate

18,000 - 22,000 CAD

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Description

Alexander Young Jackson
Ship Island, Georgian Bay
1913

signed lower right A.Y. JACKSON; titled Ship Island and dated on the reverse
oil on panel
21.6 by 26.7 cm.
8 ½ by 10 ½ in.

Provenance

Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature

A.Y. Jackson, A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, Toronto, 1963, pp. 25 - 26

Catalogue Note

Jackson met Group of Seven patron Dr. James MacCallum in late September 1913 while he was living in a bathing shack on Portage Island in Georgian Bay where, after a somewhat peripatetic summer, he "started to paint seriously." Jackson writes:

After painting in Europe where everything was mellowed by time and human association, I found it a problem to paint a country in outward appearance pretty much as it had been when Champlain passed through its thousands of rocky islands three hundred years before. It was a perfect autumn; there were a few snow flurries, but no cold weather. I did a lot of work, both canvases and sketches... Paddling around islands and exploring intricate channels and bays that cut into the mainland provided me with much material. I made studies for "Terre Sauvage," the first large canvas of the new movement. Then at the end of October I closed up the house... It was more than five years before I saw Georgian Bay again.