Provenance:

Acquired from the artist.
The Morris Gallery, Toronto.
Private Collection, Oakville.

Literature:

Naomi Jackson Groves, A.Y.’s Canada, Toronto/Vancouver, 1968, page 30.

Note:

A letter in the possession of the consignor entitled “View of Pictou, Nova Scotia” states that Jackson was a visitor at the home of Mr. Will Ives, Manager of a bank on the Main Street: “The Ives lived over the bank and young Jackson’s room window over-looked the tree shrouded roof tops of houses on Carroll’s Lane leading up the stone houses on High Street.”

Groves writes that Jackson paid his very first visit to the Maritimes in 1902, a visit he did not mention in his autobiography but which he enjoyed reminiscing about: “That was way back in July 1902; I would be about nineteen. I went down to Nova Scotia with Billy Ives...We were both apprentices in that lithographing firm in Montreal. His father was agent for a coal company in Cape Breton and we travelled all the way down to Pictou on a Norwegian coal boat and stayed for a whole month...I’d stop to sketch, in watercolour in those days...I never sold any of those early watercolours, I gave them all away. A couple of people still have some...”.