Lot 63
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
Lot 63 Details
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
MOUNT PELEE, LATER MOUNT FITZWILLIAM, 1914
oil on panel
signed; also signed, titled, dated 1914 and inscribed “25 Severn St., Toronto” on the reverse
8.5 ins x 10.5 ins; 21.6 cms x 26.7 cms
Estimate $20,000-$25,000
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Provenance:
Walter Klinkhoff Galerie Inc., Montreal
Waddington Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto
Note:
On his 1914 trip to the Rockies for Canadian Northern Railways (see lot 12), Jackson created this sketch of Mount Fitzwilliam from the vantage point of his camp in the YellowHead Pass. Sketches from this trip are very rare, because Jackson, unsatisfied with much of the work he produced on that trip, is reputed to have destroyed most of it by tossing his sketches into the furnace at the Studio Building at 25 Severn Street in Toronto.
In a letter written by A.Y. Jackson on February 28th, 1960, he states “In 1914 I made my first trip west for the Canadian Northern Railways…I went with J.W. Beatty; no definite commission…They were to have first rights on any work we did. As you know they went bankrupt during the first war so none of our work was used…I found this and some other sketches in a box in the basement of my sister-in-law’s house. They had been lost for thirty years.”