Laing Galleries, Toronto
Private Collection, Calgary
Literature
Dorothy M. Farr, “J.W. Beatty, 1869-1941”, Kingston, 1981, page 38
J.W. Beatty moved into the newly constructed Studio Building in 1914 and went on a sketching trip that year to Algonquin Park with J.E.H. MacDonald and met A.Y. Jackson there. It is presumed that Beatty also made sketching trips with Tom Thomson to Algonquin Park. Following Beatty’s death in 1941, Helen Bannerman remarks on the artist’s pleasing and patriotic artistic oeuvre, stating: “There is a cheerful zest about Beatty’s work that is most refreshing in these jaded times, when most artists, particularly young ones, are obsessed with a ‘message’. Beatty bothers with no message except perhaps an unconscious one urging us to glory in the beauties of Canadian landscape as he does.”
