Canadian Fine Art Auction

November 21, 2016

LOT 76

Lot 76

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.

ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
Lot 76 Details
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.

GODHAVN, GREENLAND, 1927

pen and ink
signed and titled
6 ins x 8 ins; 15.2 cms x 20.3 cms

Estimate $4,000-$6,000

Realised: $4,080
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
  • ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
  • ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.
Provenance:

Roberts Gallery Limited, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario

Literature:

A.Y. Jackson, The Far North: A Book of Drawings, Rous & Mann Limited, Toronto, 1927, Plate I for Godhavn, Greenland, 1927, reproduced.

A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country, Clarke Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto, 1958 for a vivid account of this journey entitled ”An Arctic Holiday with Dr. Banting,” pages 93-102.

Naomi Jackson Groves, A.Y. Jackson, The Arctic 1927, Moonbeam, 1982, Plate 71 for Studies of Eskimos in Kayaks, Godhavn and Pangnirtung, a related work.

D.B.G. Fair, Banting & Jackson, An Artistic Brotherhood, London, Ontario, 1997, pages 9-10.

Wayne Larsen, A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2009, pages 134 - 143 for the chapter entitled “Exploring the Northern Frontier,” an account of Jackson and Banting’s Beothic voyage.

Exhibited:

Drawing Conclusions, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, 23 Feb. - 8 June, 2008.

Note:

A.Y. Jackson and Frederick Banting spent from mid-July to September of 1927 travelling throughout the Arctic on board the Beothic a supply ship that served the eastern Arctic.

The first stop along this arctic route was in Godhavn, Greenland, the last Port Burwell (see lot 77).

Fair describes this as “perhaps the most significant of both artists’ careers.” Immediately upon their return, Jackson exhibited his oil sketches and ink drawings at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the AGO), which opened on September 21st and published The Far North (Rous and Mann, 1928) in which this little ink sketch is reproduced.

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