Sold for: $17,550

PROVENANCE
Wallack Galleries, Ottawa
Private Collection, Nova Scotia
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 28, 2013, lot 175
Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Wayne Larsen, A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter, 2009, page 225

A.Y. Jackson traveled throughout Canada with his compact, lightweight sketch box loaded with birch panels, paint and tools. He stated, “When I am making a sketch, I try to emphasize the things I want and ignore the things I don’t want. I like to think of a sketch not as a little picture but rather as an idea for a big one. A close resemblance to the subject is only a minor virtue. You may try to get an effect of light or an arrangement of colour, or a certain relationship of line - but what you always strive for is an intensification of nature.” In this close-up farm scene at Barry’s Bay, east of Algonquin Park, Jackson draws our eye to the figure in shadow by her juxtaposition to a small outbuilding lit up by the sun. The predominantly green palette, from bright peridot to olive, gives a fresh, alive feel to the land, further brightened by notes of red and yellow. Through his fluid handling of paint and sure choice of essential details, Jackson gives us a vivid and warm impression of this rural scene.

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