Artist Alexander Young Jackson
Title West Bay Fault, Yellowknife
Media colour silkscreen on paper board
Size 19.5 x 26.5 in. / 49.5 x 67.3 cm.
Frame Size 21 x 28 x 1 in.
Estimate $400 - $600
Notes
signed with initials in screen lower centre; framed; some handling marks noted
Reference
illustrated on page 214 in Art for War and Peace: How a Great Art Project Helped Canada Discover Itself, by Ian Sigvaldason and Scott Steedman, published by Read Leaf, 2015
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