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LOT 143

ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA
1873 - 1932
Canadien

Algoma
huile sur panneau
paraphé et au verso signé, titré, daté et inscrit
8 1/2 x 10 1/2 po, 21.6 x 26.7 cm

Estimation : 90 000 $ - 120 000 $ CAD

Vendu pour : 80 000 $

Exposition à : Heffel Toronto – 13 avenue Hazelton

PROVENANCE
Laing Galleries, Toronto
By descent to the present Private Collection, Calgary

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
A.Y. Jackson, A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, 1958, page 45


This delightful oil sketch by J.E.H. MacDonald, jaunty, bright and cheerful, was painted in 1920, an auspicious time in the history of the Group of Seven, and depicts a location that is synonymous with their name. The verdant region of Algoma in northern Ontario was a crucial painting place for most of the Group’s members at this time. The focus of their boxcar trips and expeditions along the Algoma Central Railway to Mongoose Lake, it is a location recalled with great fondness in letters and diaries by the various combinations of painters who were there over the course of a few years. So prominent was the region in their collective oeuvre and in their exhibitions at the time, that they were referred to as “The Algoma Group” before taking on the official name of the Group of Seven in March of 1920. Fellow Group artist A.Y. Jackson referred to Algoma as “MacDonald’s country,” writing in his autobiography, “He was awed and thrilled by the landscape of Algoma and he got the feel of it in his painting.”


Estimation : 90 000 $ - 120 000 $ CAD

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