Lot 46
Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson, OSA, RCA (1882-1974)
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Provenance:
Private Estate, Ontario
Note:
By the 1940s, the Quebec villages that Jackson loved to paint were quickly becoming more modern. He particularly resented the snowmobiles which had become so popular with rural Quebecers, allowing them to access routes that neither car nor horse-drawn carriage could reach. It was the sound he hated most, which shattered the peaceful atmosphere that Jackson so enjoyed painting in. As a result, by the spring of 1948 he had relocated his sketching trips to the Gatineau region near Ottawa. The region would interest him until the end of his life, so much so that his move to Manotick, Ontario in 1955 to be closer to his niece Constance and her family, allowed him easy proximity to the Gatineau region’s “rocky hills rising out of the farmlands, rivers, lakes and old settlements all quite close to Ottawa.”[1]
[1] A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1967), 156.