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PROVENANCE
Lady Jean Brinckman (née Southam)
By descent to the present Private Estate, Ontario

LITERATURE
Wayne Larsen, A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter, 2009, page 179

From the 1920s to the 1940s, A.Y. Jackson embarked on yearly sketching trips to the quiet villages along the St. Lawrence River. Jackson was deeply inspired by the bucolic atmosphere of the region, which felt blissfully removed from the encroaching modernization of the city. The charming horse-drawn sleigh wending through the late spring snow in this sketch is one of the most beloved motifs in Jackson’s Quebec scenes. His rhythmic rendering of forms, mirrored across the sloping rooftops, the contoured snowbanks, and the softly rolling hills, roots the village within its natural landscape. Jackson was also captivated by the iridescent colours and shifting texture of sunlit and shadowed snow. As lifelong friend and artist Anne Savage aptly noted, “Not only can Jackson give us the soft gentleness of the opalescent snow bank, but he analyses the snow under every condition and delights in handling the curled edges of great sweeping drifts [and] the sheen on the ice-caked roads.” St Mathieu, Rimouski exemplifies Jackson’s honed stylistic sensibilities and enduring affection for the distinctive identity of the Quebec countryside.

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