Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson - Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson (315) - Les Éboulements

  • Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson (315) - Les Éboulements
  • Oil on Panel
  • 8.5 x 10.5 in
  • 1932
  • Sold
  • Loch Gallery, Toronto


signed and on verso titled, dated March 1932 and inscribed "reserved A.D.S. [Anne Douglas Savage]

Provenance:
A gift of the Artist to Anne Savage
By descent to the present Private Collection, Quebec
Heffel Auction, November 24, 2007 - Sold for $69,000
Private Collection, Vancouver
Private Collection, Ontario

Literature:
Anne McDougall, Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter, 1977, pages 17 and 18

Jackson and Savage, both natives of Montreal, were good friends for about 50 years, and they also corresponded when Jackson was away on his painting expeditions. In 1974 (Savage died in 1971), a group of 300 letters from Jackson were found in her home. McDougall writes of this correspondence, "Between them they bring back the excitement of early discoveries in painting techniques, the thrill of sketching trips...the story that emerges from the letters of A.Y. Jackson and Anne Savage brings back some of the poignant and gutsy struggle of painters who were just finding their feet in a society that barely accepted anything called 'Canadian art'." With their close association, Savage would have had the pick of Jackson's best paintings, exemplified by this fine work.


Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson, a founding and leading member of the Group of Seven, was recognized during his lifetime for his contribution to the development of art in Canada. He travelled widely and painted full-time, primarily landscapes.

A native of Montreal, Jackson studied with William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1906, and with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julien, Paris, in 1907. He painted in Europe frequently between 1906 and 1912. It was his painting The Edge of the Maple Wood (1910) that brought him to the attention of J.E.H. MacDonald and, when it was bought by Lawren Harris, Jackson visited Toronto and met other members of the future Group of Seven. Dr. James MacCallum, co-financier with Harris of Canada's first purpose-built studio building, sponsored him for a year in 1914. Jackson lived and worked at the Studio Building in Toronto until 1955. He travelled in Canada throughout his career, sketching outdoors and painting in his Toronto studio.

Jackson's father, an unsuccessful businessman, abandoned his family in 1891, and Jackson worked from the age of twelve at a Montreal lithography company. Having moved to Toronto, in 1914 he shared a studio with Tom Thomson and painted in Algonquin Park, producing The Red Maple that same year. During the First World War he joined the infantry, serving as a war artist in 1917-19. He exhibited with the Group of Seven from 1920 and played a key role in bringing the artists of Montreal and Toronto together. Jackson continued to play an influential role in Canadian art, and from 1943 to 1949 he taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Jackson resided in Manotick, near Ottawa, from 1955, but incapacitated in 1968 by a stroke, he moved to Kleinburg, Ontario, and lived there at the McMichael Collection from 1969.

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