Sold for: $43,250

PROVENANCE
Acquired from the Artist by Judge John Parker
By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Dennis Reid, Alberta Rhythm: The Later Work of A.Y. Jackson, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982, page 33

A.Y. Jackson first traveled to the Yukon in 1943 with H.G. Glyde, driving up the newly built Alaska Highway. He returned to the Yukon in 1964, from September 9 to October 30, this time with fellow artists Ralph Burton and Maurice Haycock, traveling by plane over a landscape of bush, muskeg and lakes. This panoramic view, full of colour and rhythmic movement, is from that trip. The artists drove the Alaska Highway again, then recrossed back into the Yukon and visited outlying areas such as the Ogilivie Mountains, finally arriving back in Whitehorse. As Dennis Reid wrote, “Jackson had one goal in his sketching, to mark down as exactly as possible the light, colour, form, and texture of a place.” Jackson found the clear air and long, open views over unpopulated landscapes very appealing. This painting is animated by an undulation that passes horizontally through the foreground hills and distant mountains, and vertically through the slender evergreens. Jackson’s rich palette, from pink, peach and purple tones to greens and blues, brings a satisfying lushness to this fine northern landscape canvas.

The consignor’s father was a judge in the Yukon from 1958 to 1968, and he befriended Jackson in 1964, when the artist was painting there. Judge Parker acquired this and other paintings directly from Jackson.

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