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Alexander Young Jackson 1882 - 1974
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 CAD
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Description
- Alexander Young Jackson
- Mountains on Haines Highway, Yukon
- signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1946 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 81.4 by 102 cm.
- 32 by 40 in.
Provenance
Private Collection, British Columbia
Catalogue Note
Although Jackson accompanied his colleagues to the Rockies, he was not inspired by their grandeur in the way that Harris or MacDonald or Lismer of Varley so evidently were. While Jackson’s companions went west to the mountains each year for years, he preferred to head east to Quebec and the St. Lawrence River to paint the small villages that clung to the banks of the river.
Nevertheless, Jackson did like to combine a distant view of the mountains with a nearer view of forest or rolling hills. He preferred the foothills more than the vastness of the mountains themselves, and especially the region southwest of Calgary, where he had a brother he could visit and stay with at no cost.
In this large painting, Jackson has revisited a territory that he and Dr. Frederick Banting had travelled over in 1928. Obviously, it held a special place in his memory and in his heart. Here he has placed the scrubby landscape, which is not unlike that found a little further north at the edge of the tree line, in front of a backdrop of the Saint Elias Mountains of what is now Kluane National Park (established in 1972). Jackson had done something similar in the mid-1920s when he portrayed Jasper Park decked with snow and set against a band of conifers with majestic mountains looming in the background.
This large canvas has the pulse and liveliness of that immense and spectacular part of the world. The colours are vivid, the panoramic effect is strong, and one gets from the canvas a true sense of the vastness in that southwest corner of the Yukon.
Nevertheless, Jackson did like to combine a distant view of the mountains with a nearer view of forest or rolling hills. He preferred the foothills more than the vastness of the mountains themselves, and especially the region southwest of Calgary, where he had a brother he could visit and stay with at no cost.
In this large painting, Jackson has revisited a territory that he and Dr. Frederick Banting had travelled over in 1928. Obviously, it held a special place in his memory and in his heart. Here he has placed the scrubby landscape, which is not unlike that found a little further north at the edge of the tree line, in front of a backdrop of the Saint Elias Mountains of what is now Kluane National Park (established in 1972). Jackson had done something similar in the mid-1920s when he portrayed Jasper Park decked with snow and set against a band of conifers with majestic mountains looming in the background.
This large canvas has the pulse and liveliness of that immense and spectacular part of the world. The colours are vivid, the panoramic effect is strong, and one gets from the canvas a true sense of the vastness in that southwest corner of the Yukon.