ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA
1882 - 1974
Canadian
La Rivière, Manitoba
oil on board
signed and on verso signed, titled, dated October 1951, inscribed "J.S. McLean" and variously and numbered with the Art Gallery of Ontario accession #L69.22 on the AGO inventory stickers
10 5/16 x 13 3/8 in, 26.2 x 34 cm
Estimate: $15,000 - $20,000 CAD
Sold for: $21,250
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PROVENANCE
J.S. McLean, Toronto
Gift from the J.S. McLean Collection to the Ontario Heritage Foundation, 1969
Donated by the Ontario Heritage Foundation to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1988, AGO accession #L69.22
A Painter's Vision: A Selection of Works by A.Y. Jackson from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, June 1, 2019, lot 209
Private Collection, Ontario
EXHIBITED
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The J.S. McLean Collection of Canadian Painting, September 19 - October 20, 1968, traveling in 1968 - 1969 to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; London Public Library and Art Museum; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Edmonton Art Gallery; and the Vancouver Art Gallery, catalogue #40
Even for someone as famously well travelled as A.Y. Jackson, 1951 was a busy year. Between the months of March and October, Jackson traveled to rural Quebec, Edmonton, Georgian Bay, Great Bear Lake, Yellowknife, Southern Alberta, Southern Manitoba, and Northen Ontario. This oil sketch was painted toward the end of these journeys on a brief visit to then Franco-Metis community of La Rivière. Although Jackson painted many prairie scenes, depictions of grain elevators are quite rare in his work. Its locale, too, is notably unique, being one of Jackson’s few depictions of Manitoba to ever be offered at auction.
This work’s provenance is also extremely noteworthy. Its original owner was J.S. McLean, one of the era’s great collectors of Canadian art. His immense collection hung in the offices of his Canadian Packers Ltd, and once included the sketch for Tom Thomson’s The West Wind. Following McLean’s donation of the work to the Ontario Heritage Fund, La Rivière, Manitoba became a part of the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario. After 30 years of careful stewardship, it was offered as a part of A Painter's Vision: A Selection of Works by A.Y. Jackson, the AGO’s 2019 white-glove deaccession partnership with Heffel.
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