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Lot #81

Artist Alexander Young Jackson
Title Berlin, Ontario [double-sided]
Media oil on wood panel
Dated ca. 1910
Size 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 18.4 x 24.1 cm.
Frame Size 15.75 x 17.5 x 2.5 in.

Place Absentee Bid

Notes
signed lower right; another signed oil painting verso; signed and inscribed 'probably painted in Berlin, Ont., 1910' on canvas piece attached to backing; framed

Reference
the city of Berlin, Ontario, changed its name to Kitchener by referendum in May and June 1916; named in 1833 after the capital of Prussia and later the German Empire, the name Berlin became unsavoury for residents after Britain and Canada's entry into the First World War.)

Provenance
Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, label verso

Sold $17,550 Estimate $15,000/$25,000

Biographical Information
Alexander Young Jackson ~ [1882-1974] Canadian CGP, OSA, RCA
see A.Y. Jackson Paintings 1902-1953, by Arthur Lismer, published by A.G.O, 1953; A Painter's Country - the Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson, published by Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1958; A.Y.'s Canada, Drawings by A.Y. Jackson edited by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1968; Alberta Rhythm: The Later Works of A.Y. Jackson, by Dennis Reid, published by A.G.O., 1982; The Arctic 1927, by A.Y. Jackson, published by Penumbra Press, 1982; Young A.Y. Jackson, Lindsay A. Evans Memories 1902-6, edited by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Edahl Productions Ltd., 1982; Jackson's Wars: A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War, by Douglas Hunter, published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

included in Works by A.Y. Jackson from the 1930's, by Naomi Jackson Groves, published by Carleton University, 1990; N.G.C. Vol. 2, G-K, edited by Charles Hill, pg. 177; A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg. 205; R.C.A.A., by Evelyn McMann, pg. 204; M.M.F.A., by Evelyn McMann pg. 189; The Group of Seven in Western Canada, by Catherine Mastin, pg. 98-99

listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN] website

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