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Acquis directement de l’artiste par la collection privée actuelle, Toronto

Although undated by the artist, this distinctively summery oil sketch by A.Y. Jackson could only have been produced within an extremely specific window of time. At the invitation of Lawren Harris and J.E.H MacDonald, Jackson moved from Montreal to Toronto in 1913, where he would be based until he enlisted in the World War 1 Canadian Armed Forces in 1915. Aside from support size of 8.5 x 10.5 inches which Jackson largely stopped using around 1935, it is Jackson’s title which offers a more substantial clue to the date. Due to what was seen as the town’s unfavourable associations with Germany after Canada’s entry into WW1, a local referendum was held in Berlin, Ontario to change their name. The referendum passed, changing the town’s name in September of 1916 to Kitchener, after the recently deceased British Army officer Horatio Herbert Kitchener. The most likely date for this work, in fact, is 1913. That summer Jackson visited his distant cousins Catherine and Rosa Breithaupt there, who would introduce him to the beauties of Georgian Bay that very summer.

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