Artist Alexander Young Jackson
Title St. Jean Port Joli, Quebec
Media graphite on paper
Dated
1927
Size 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 19.7 x 26.7 cm.
Frame Size 15 x 17.5 x 0.75 in.
Sold $1,600
Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
Notes
unsigned; titled upper right under mat; bears artist's name and date on gallery label included with lot; framed with archival mat
Reference
lot includes letter from Charles Comfort; see very similar work illustrated on page 53 in A.Y.'s Canada by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1968
Provenance
ex-collection Charles Comfort; Masters Gallery, Calgary, label verso; 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
included in Works by A.Y. Jackson from the 1930's, by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Carleton University, 1990; N.G.C. Vol. 2, G-K, edited by Charles Hill, pg. 177; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg. 205; R.C.A.A., by Evelyn McMann, pg. 204; M.M.F.A., by Evelyn McMann pg. 189; The Group of Seven in Western Canada, by Catherine Mastin, pg. 98-99
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website