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20 ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A. INDIAN VILLAGE - HAZELTON, B.C. charcoal and graphite drawing signed 9.25 ins x 7.5 ins; 23.5 cms x 19.1 cms Literature: A.Y. Jackson, A Painter’s Country, Clarke, Irwin & Company, Toronto, 1958, pages 89-90 for a discussion of Jackson’s visit to Hazelton, B.C. in the company of Edwin Holgate, 1926. Naomi Jackson Groves, A.Y.’s Canada, Clarke, Irwin & Company, Toronto, 1968, pages 152-170, for a discussion of Jackson’s impressions of the villages along the Skeena River, B.C. Note: Groves refers to the work Jackson produced during his 1926 trip to Skeena as “a rich crop” of drawings. Furthermore, Jackson astutely identified the importance of Skeena country to the Canadian narrative and pleaded for its preservation as a unique opportunity to build and tell our own legends at a time when Canada was still searching for its sense of nationhood. According to a label on the reverse this work is titled on the back of the work and was given to Margaret Hayes in August 1926. $5,000–7,000
21 CHRISTOPHER PRATT, R.C.A. DONNA NOW pencil signed and dated March 8/1980 11 ins x 13.25 ins; 27.9 cms x 33.7 cms Provenance: Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto/Montreal Private Collection, Toronto Literature: Joyce Zemans, Christopher Pratt: A Retrospective, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1986, page 55. Note: Donna is the subject of many works by both Christopher and Mary Pratt. In this sketch, Donna’s gaze is relaxed but her crossed arms suggest a subtext – as if challenging the artist to the impossible task of truly capturing her image on a page. Joyce Zemans observes, “Pratt has puzzled over the years about the significance of the artist/model relationship and particularly about the power struggle it implies.” $7,000–9,000
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