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PROVENANCE
Wallack Galleries, Ottawa
Private Collection, Nova Scotia

While in Ottawa in 1949, A.Y. Jackson met Hugh Keenleyside, Deputy Minister of the Department of Resources and Development, and this led to Jackson being commissioned by the department to produce paintings of the region around Yellowknife on Great Slave Lake. After spending the summer teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Jackson first headed up to the Port Radium region on Great Bear Lake, traveling on an Eldorado Mine plane. His friend, mineralogist and fellow painter Maurice Haycock, joined him on the trip. They then headed south to Yellowknife, where Jackson produced this lively work. Jackson was drawn to the primeval nature of this open landscape, strewn with boulders and covered with a tapestry of moss, lichen and small plants, here turning bright orange and yellow with fall colours. Jackson includes Negus Mine in the landscape, a gold mine which operated from 1939 to 1952. Jackson’s vigorous brushwork gives equal emphasis to all the elements in the painting, and his warm palette imbues the work with a rich glow.

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