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Œuvres d'art
A.Y. JacksonMadawaska River, 1963 (October)1882-1974$18,000Inscriptions
signed, ‘A.Y. JACKSON’ (lower right); numbered, inscribed, titled and dated, ‘821 / Madawaska River / Oct. 1963’ (verso)Provenance
Kastel Gallery, Montreal
Private collection, Town of Mount Royal, Quebec
The rural community of Madawaska is located southeast of Algonquin Park, along the Madawaska River, Madawaska is approximately 220 kilometres (about 137 miles) west of Ottawa, where A.Y. Jackson was living at the time he painted this fine work.
The importance of A.Y. Jackson’s contribution to art in Canada painted throughout his career can never be overstated. There is not likely any artist more synonymous with Canadian art than Alexander Young Jackson. According to La202wren Harris, Jackson was, “The real force and inspiration that led [the Group of Seven] into a modern conception which suited this country [...] the one era of creative art that has the greatest significance for Canada” [1].
In the annals of Canadian art of his generation, and prior to as well, there can be no artist who in his/her art shared with Canadians such a vast wealth of paintings of Canada, east to west and north to south. In his incessant search for painterly subject matter, Dr. Jackson travelled until he could travel no more, travelling distances long and short and durations similar in length, depending upon the destinations.
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Footnote:
[1] A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson (Vancouver/Toronto: Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1948), 157
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