Artist Alexander Young Jackson
Title Coppermine Country
Media oil on wood panel
Size 10.5 x 13.5 in. / 26.7 x 34.3 cm.
Frame Size 21 x 24 x 1.75 in.
Sold $16,000
Estimate $20,000 - $30,000
Notes
signed lower left; titled and inscribed verso; framed
Reference
In 1938 Jackson was invited to visit the Eldorado Mine on the shores of Great Bear Lake. He was to return many times, painting scenes in the September Mountains and along the Coppermine River. 'I wandered over the rocky hills, which were easy to traverse. There were patches of spruce and small birch, and muskeg lakes, but mostly open rock.' A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd., 1958, pg 123. See also pages 208-228 in A.Y.'s Canada, by Naomi Jackson Groves, Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd., 1968 for a detailed description of Jackson's time in the North and many pencil sketches of this area
Provenance
private collection, Calgary
Biographical Information
Alexander Young Jackson ~ [1882-1974] Canadian CGP, OSA, RCA
see
A.Y. Jackson Paintings 1902-1953, by Arthur Lismer, published by A.G.O, 1953;
A Painter's Country - the Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, published by Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1958;
A.Y.'s Canada, Drawings by A.Y. Jackson edited by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1968;
Alberta Rhythm: The Later Works of A.Y. Jackson, by Dennis Reid, published by A.G.O., 1982;
The Arctic 1927, by A.Y. Jackson, published by Penumbra Press, 1982;
Young A.Y. Jackson, Lindsay A. Evans Memories 1902-6, edited by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Edahl Productions Ltd., 1982;
Jackson's Wars: A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War, by Douglas Hunter, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022;
Works by A.Y. Jackson from the 1930's, by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Carleton University, 1990;
biography and other examples in
N.G.C. Vol. 2, G-K, edited by Charles Hill, pg. 177;
A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg. 205;
The Group of Seven in Western Canada, by Catherine Mastin, pg. 98-99
exhibition list in
R.C.A.A., by E. McMann, pg. 204;
M.M.F.A., by E. McMann pg. 189