Corner of a field with cedar rail fence

Collection of Naomi Jackson-Groves Private Collection, Toronto

Naomi Jackson Groves, “A.Y.’s Canada: Drawings by A.Y. Jackson”, Toronto/Vancover, 1968, page 94, reproduced page 95, listed page 236 as plate 45, NJG 143

As Naomi Jackson Groves reflects, “The journey so far through “AY’s Canada” has tended to be fairly specific as to locality, reconstructing how, on a certain day of a certain year the artist stood on a certain shoreline top or a certain roofline. But local details mist not be allowed to outweigh the importance of the myriad unnamed corners of Canada towards which the weather-tanned face of our AY (somewhere referred to as “the ruddy old Daddy of Canadian landscape”) has been turned in interest. It is good to introduce a more general perspective by presenting, from time to time, subjects that can be found almost anywhere in wide stretches of our country. This drawing of a field, a fence, and a bit of bush requires no date regarding place and time. It is simply “our part of the world,” with its old cedar rail fence, its snowy terrain, its suggestion of the crispness of a bright winter’s day.”