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Artworks
A.Y. JacksonPhillips Lake, October, 19481882-1974SoldInscriptions
signed, ‘A.Y. JACKSON’ (lower right); titled, signed and dated, ‘PHILLIPS LAKE/ OCT 1948/ A.Y. JACKSON’ (verso, centre); signed on a piece of original frame attached to the verso, ‘A.Y. JACKSON’ (verso)Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. Plaunt, Ottawa
Mr. & Mrs. W. Clark, Ottawa
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private collection, Michigan
Phillips Lake, October is a fine composition painted in 1948 of a picturesque lake in the Gatineau region of Quebec. Although Lawren Harris sold the Studio Building in 1948, A. Y. Jackson stayed until 1955 when he moved to Manotick where a niece lived.
“Before I moved to Manotick I had become familiar with the Gatineau country north of Ottawa where I had sketched with Maurice Maycock and Ralph Burton. I had found some interesting places to paint, rocky hills rising out of the farmlands, rivers, lakes and old settlements all quite close to Ottawa. So I left the Studio Building with few regrets” [1]
When Jackson moved to Manotick and then some years later into downtown Ottawa proper, while he did continue to take sketching trips in distant areas of Canada, the Gatineau and the Ottawa Valley became synonymous with his work as the late winter along the Lower St Lawrence had been in the 1920s through the mid 1930s.
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Footnote:
[1] A.Y. Jackson, A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A. Y. Jackson (Vancouver/Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1958), 156.
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