Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson
1882 - 1974, Canadian
Indian House, Port Simpson, BC
oil on panel, 1926
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in, 26.7 x 21.6 cm
ESTIMATE: $8,000 - $10,000
SOLD FOR : $12,100 CAD (premium included)
SALE DATE : Thursday, May 27, 1999
Sale of Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Thursday, May 27, 1999, lot #104
signed and on verso titled
Provenance:
McCready Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Vancouver
Mrs. Musgrave's house, painted for Dr. Marius Barbeau's collection
Literature:
Naomi Jackson Groves, A.Y.'s Canada, 1968, page 168
This house belonged to Mrs. Musgrave, and was "one of the finest grand houses in the place...It was built by one of the coastal Tsimsians with the money from furs and salmon, and from ample returns on potlatches, some time before 1900."
Reproduced