PROVENANCE
A gift from the Artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Dorothy M. Farr, J.W. Beatty, 1869 – 1941, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, 1980, page 22

Before the Group of Seven was established, some painters had already begun to break the domination of European painting and to paint Canada in a new way – and J.W. Beatty was one of them. Although he spent two years studying abroad starting in 1906 in Paris, then in London, when he returned to Toronto in 1908 he felt such a surge of nationalism for Canada that he declared, “The future of this country stands for more than that of any country on earth.” Such nationalism was in the air at the time, particularly amongst the future Group members that he met at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto. As early as 1902 he sketched with Lawren Harris in the northern Ontario wilderness, and he was a part of a number of other early painting trips to locations such as Algonquin Park. In the 1920s, Beatty was teaching at the Ontario College of Art’s Summer School while continuing to paint the Ontario countryside, such as in this peaceful and atmospheric work. Beatty’s viewpoint creates the feeling of being sheltered within the forest grove while contemplating the beauty of the sunlit screen of trees glowing with fall hues against the lake and hillside beyond.

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