Provenance

Heffel Auction, May 2008

Private collection, Toronto

Throughout his career A.Y. Jackson made regular spring sketching trips to Quebec and travelled to the far regions of Canada during the summer, including the Canadian Arctic. In the fall he would return to the Studio Building in Toronto (where he lived until 1955), spending the winters painting canvases. He continued this active lifestyle until he was in his eighties.

Jackson’s Quebec paintings from the 1950s convey both the resilience of the farming communities and the changing landscape, preserving a way of life that was gradually fading in the face of modernization.