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A.Y JACKSON - Represented by Gallery 260
( Canada, 1882 - 1974 )
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Artist: A.Y JACKSON ( Canada, 1882 - 1974 ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Biography: (1882 – 1974)
ALC RSA CGP G7 OSA RCA
Biography:
A.Y. Jackson was born in Montreal, Quebec. As a young boy, he worked as an office assistant for a lithography company, in order to support his family, five siblings, which were abandoned by their father. It was during his time here at Jackson’s love of art had begun to manifest. He began to take evening classes at Montreal’s Le Monument National.
In 1905, he moved to Chicago, where he joined a commercial art firm and took courses at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907, he moved to France to study Impressionism. He studied at Paris’ Academie Julian, under J.P. Laurens. Upon returning to Canada, he settled in Sweetsberg, Quebec, where he began his work as a professional painter. In 1913, he held his first single artist exhibition at the Montreal Art Gallery.
He soon received a letter from J.E.H. MacDonald, inquiring about The Edge of Maple Wood. Lauren Harris saw the piece at a Toronto exhibition and wanted to buy it. After the transaction, Jackson began to correspond with the Toronto artists, and started to accompany them on their major trips to Algonquin Park, Georgian Bay, Algoma and North Shore. Like the other group painters, Jackson embraced landscaped themes.
In 1920, Jackson and his six painter companions formed the Group of Seven. These artists were considered bold, as the Canadian wildness had previously been considered too rugged and wild to be painted.
In 1925, the taught at the Ontario College of Art (OCA). In 1933, he helped found the Canadian Group of Painters. In 1967, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada, seven years before his demise in 1974.
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