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Artworks
A.Y. JacksonLes Éboulements, 1935 (circa)1882-1974$50,000Inscriptions
signed, 'A Y Jackson' (lower right)Provenance
Private collection, Washington, DC
In his memoirs, Toronto dealer of yesteryear, Blair Laing, ranked A.Y. Jackson as one of his favourite artists. Of Jackson, he wrote:
In my opinion, his most striking works are the colourful French-Canadian farm and village scenes of the 1920s and early 1930s. Picturesque, and painted in the Post-Impressionist style, which he learned in France, they are poignant reminders of the social and cultural significance of the Quebec rural communities of that time.Although not the first to paint the village life and farmsteads of Quebec (James W. Morrice, Clarence Gagnon, and to some extent Maurice Cullen and Horatio Walker, had painted similar subjects years before), Jackson with his sympathetic look at rural French Canada remains the best known.[1]
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Footnote:
[1] G. Blair Laing, Memoirs of an Art Dealer, Volume 2 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 1982), 197.