Sold for: $16,380

PROVENANCE
Acquired from the Vancouver Art Gallery, Women's Committee sale
By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Naomi Jackson Groves, A.Y.’s Canada, 1968, page 54

A.Y. Jackson spent March 29 to May 8, 1945, at his brother Harry’s country home at Saint-Aubert in L’Islet county. A.Y. and Harry shared a love of nature – Harry was an amateur mycologist and well-known birder – and a love of art; in 1943 the two brothers exhibited together at the Art Association of Montreal, with Harry contributing watercolours of fungi. The area around Saint-Aubert on the St. Lawrence’s south shore had been discovered by A.Y. in the 1920s. He appreciated its unspoiled nature, particularly when the main road along the St. Lawrence was discovered by tourists. His niece Naomi Jackson Groves (Harry’s daughter) wrote, “This region has been the summer haunt of les Jacksons since the early 1930s and the H.A.C. Jackson home, ‘Patly Hill’, has often been AY’s headquarters for spring and fall sketching.” This is a fine characteristic Jackson rural Quebec sketch, with furrowed fields bounded by organic snake-fences and a cluster of farm buildings exuding a warm, lived-in quality. The last shreds of snow cling to the earth as it turns towards the rebirth of spring.

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