Alexander Young Jackson
(1882 - 1974) Group of Seven, Canadian Group of Painters, OSA, RCA
Previously Sold Works
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Tadenac, November
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled on the frame “Tadenac, November-Georgian Bay” and inscribed “Pickering College” (three times) and “Newmarket” on the stretcher, NJG Inventory No. 1710
40.25 x 38.25 ins ( 102.2 x 97.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $400,000.00 - $600,000.00
Price Realized $936,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Le Boulanger, Baie-Saint-Paul, circa 1925
oil on canvas
signed lower left
21 x 26 ins ( 53.3 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $200,000.00 - $300,000.00
Price Realized $288,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Totem Poles, Kitwanga
oil on panel
signed lower left; NJG Inventory No. 653 inscribed on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $192,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Eastern Arctic
oil on panel
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1930, inscribed “Artic” [sic], “Joe McCulley”, “owned by “H.V. Ross” and the Naomi Jackson Groves inventory number (”NJG 108”) on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 in ( 21.6 x 26.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00
Price Realized $168,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
The River, Baie-Saint-Paul
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1929 lower right; inscribed indistinctly on the stretcher
25 x 32 in ( 63.5 x 81.3 cm )
Auction Estimate: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00
Price Realized $144,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Oak and Birch
oil on panel
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1920, inscribed “Oak and Birch 3/Georgian Bay” and NJG Inventory No. 1353 on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $50,000.00
Price Realized $102,000.00
Sale date: June 8th 2023
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
St. Irenée, Quebec
oil on panel
signed lower left; signed and titled on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00
Price Realized $94,400.00
Sale date: November 20th 2018
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Saint-Tite-des-Caps
oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed, titled, dated “April 1946” and inscribed “Studio Building; Severn St.,Toronto” on the stretcher
19 x 24 ins ( 48.3 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $80,000.00 - $120,000.00
Price Realized $96,000.00
Sale date: June 15th 2022
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Ruisseau Jureux
oil on canvas
signed lower left; signed, titled and dated 1931 on the stretcher
21 x 26 ins ( 53.3 x 66 cms )
Auction Estimate: $125,000.00 - $175,000.00
Price Realized $88,500.00
Sale date: May 29th 2018
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
October Morning, Épisy (1909)
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled, dated 1909 and inscribed “810”, “2158”, “Exhibited at Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Liverpool”, “No. 1” and “His Frame” (struck) on the stretcher; titled and inscribed “Owned by EJ Jackson, Lethbridge” on a label on the stretcher
21.5 x 25.5 ins ( 54.6 x 64.8 cms )
Auction Estimate: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00
Price Realized $90,000.00
Sale date: June 9th 2021
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Otter Head, Lake Superior
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled “Otter Head” and inscribed “H.U. Ross” on the reverse
20.25 x 25.25 ins ( 51.4 x 64.1 cms )
Auction Estimate: $50,000.00 - $75,000.00
Price Realized $90,000.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
North Shore, Quebec
oil on canvas
signed lower right
22.25 x 26.25 in ( 56.5 x 66.7 cm )
Auction Estimate: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00
Price Realized $90,000.00
Sale date: May 30th 2024
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Les Éboulements
oil on panel
signed lower left; NJG inventory No. 2406 inscribed on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00
Price Realized $84,000.00
Sale date: December 1st 2022
ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON
Montreal River, Algoma, 1919
oil on wood
signed lower left; signed, titled, dated 1919 and inscribed “35.00” on the reverse; inscribed “To Jane Stewart Fifteen Years Since Oct. 25. 1924”; inscribed “Told us this was the exact spot from when J. E. MacDonald painted ‘The Solemn Land’”; NJG Inventory No. 2405 on the reverse
8.5 x 10.5 ins ( 21.6 x 26.7 cms )
Auction Estimate: $30,000.00 - $40,000.00
Price Realized $72,000.00
Sale date: December 6th 2023
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A.Y. Jackson Biography
(1882 - 1974) Group of Seven, Canadian Group of Painters, OSA, RCA
Born in Montreal, Alexander Young Jackson left school at the age of twelve and began work at a Montreal printing firm. In 1906, he undertook art studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. The following year he enrolled at the Académie Julian where he studied under Jean Paul Laurens for six months, then he travelled to Italy with others where they visited galleries in Rome, Florence and Venice. They returned to France and Jackson went to the village of Episy with a fellow student named Porter with whom he had lived in Paris. Jackson found much to paint at Episy: old farms, rolling country, the canal where barges were towed by mules, and for the first time (in France) he lived with people close to the land.
He left France when his funds were low and returned to Canada in 1910 where the “clear crisp air and sharp shadows” of Sweetsburg, Quebec, became the subject of his canvas “Edge of the Maple Wood”. During this period his painting was strongly influenced by the Impressionists. Then the work of Canadian artists Cullen and Morrice led him further in the discoveries of snow and other elements of Canadian subject matter which were to become an integral part of his work throughout his life. After his return to Canada, Jackson took up residence in Montreal and made many sketching trips to the surrounding countryside. While at Emileville he received a letter from a J.E.H. MacDonald of Toronto who wanted to purchase his “Edge of the Maple Wood” on behalf of a third party, Lawren Harris. Jackson sold the picture and later met MacDonald in Toronto. In Toronto he also met, through MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frederick Varley and other members of the Arts and Letters Club who were employed by the Grip Engraving Company as commercial artists. Jackson later went to Georgian Bay to sketch and was visited there by Dr. James MacCallum, a friend of Lawren Harris. MacCallum, who had a summer home at the Bay, offered Jackson a place to work in the ‘Studio Building’ which MacCallum and Lawren Harris were having built for Canadian artists in Toronto. In the meantime Jackson was invited to stay at MacCallum’s summer home. Jackson’s production was good; he did many sketches and a number of canvases, one being the “Maple in the Pine Woods” which was later to bring a storm of criticism at a Group of Seven exhibition.
On his return to Toronto, Jackson stayed at Lawren Harris’ studio in Toronto until the Studio Building was completed. There one day he was introduced to Tom Thomson who had accompanied Dr. MacCallum on a visit. Thomson was also an employee of the Grip Engraving Company. The two moved into the Studio Building in January 1914 and shared a studio. Thomson had soon inspired Jackson to visit Algonquin Park in February and March of 1914. Jackson also sketched that year with J.E.H. MacDonald and J.W. Beatty. In 1915, Jackson enlisted as a private in the 60th Battalion and after being wounded, returned later to the front as Lieutenant with Canadian War Records. As a war artist he created one of the finest collections of war paintings our nation possesses.
In 1919 he went to Algoma with J.E.H. MacDonald, Lawren Harris and Franz Johnston, making use of a railway box car as a studio which Harris had arranged. During that year, Jackson became a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy. On May 7th, 1920, the first exhibition of the Group of Seven opened at the Art Gallery of Toronto. The Group continued to exhibit until 1931. Each exhibition of the Group was met with great protest. In July of 1927 Jackson and Dr. Frederick Banting went north on the steamer ‘Beothic’ which had been chartered by the government to deliver supplies to the RCMP posts and to carry relief constables to the posts. They sketched at Pond Inlet, Devon Island, Ellesmere Island and other arctic locations. Jackson’s arctic sketches were exhibited at the Art Gallery of Toronto.
Jackson's great sense of adventure carried him from the east coast across Canada to the Rocky Mountains of the west. He made regular sketching trips to Quebec every spring 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.
Source: "A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume II”, compiled by Colin S. MacDonald, Canadian Paperbacks Publishing Ltd, Ottawa, 1979