signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 1950 on the reverse
10.5 × 13.5 in (26.7 × 34.3 cm)
Auction Estimate:$14,000 - $18,000
Sale date:May 22 - June 2, 2020
Price Realized
$16,800
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature
Catharine M. Mastin (ed.), “The Group of Seven in Western Canada”, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 2002, page 114
A.Y. Jackson made brief visits to Alberta as early as 1914. He described the appeal of the west in a letter to Anne Savage in 1933, writing “the great open prairies tugged strongly with [their] promise of vast space and unfettered movement, of an escape to freedom, of renewal.” Jackson’s first major trip was in 1937, to visit his brother Ernest, a respected judge in Lethbridge. He returned to Alberta year after year until the late 1950s, painting the expansive farm country during the four distinct seasons, including the golden hay of the early harvest in “Alberta Farm, Near Edmonton”.
