ALC CGP G7 OSA RCA RSA
1882 - 1974
Canadian
Night on the Skeena River
oil on canvas
signed and on verso initialed three times, titled, dated 1927 on the Galerie Walter Klinkhoff label and inscribed "No. 4" and "A.Y. Jackson, 25 Severn St., Toronto"
25 1/4 x 32 1/8 in, 64.1 x 81.6 cm
Estimate: $800,000 - $1,000,000 CAD
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Collection of the Artist
Peter A. Thomson, Montreal, before 1933
By descent to Joy Thomson, daughter of Peter A. Thomson, Nassau and New York
By descent to T. Asselin, son of Joy Thomson and Edmund Asselin, Nassau and Calgary
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff Inc., Montreal
Private Collection, Montreal
LITERATURE
Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern, National Gallery of Canada, 1927, titled as Totem Poles, Hazelton, listed page 15
Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern and of a Group of Water Colour Paintings by Robert D. Norton, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1928, titled as Totem Poles, Hazelton, listed page 14
Marius Barbeau, The Downfall of Temlaham, 1928, the related canvas Kispayaks Village reproduced verso page 70
David P. Silcox, Tom Thomson: Life & Work, reproduced, https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/tom-thomson/significance-and-critical-issues/#the-canadian-documentary-tradition
EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern, November 20 – December 31, 1927, titled as Totem Poles, Hazelton, catalogue #43
Art Gallery of Toronto, Exhibition of Canadian West Coast Art: Native and Modern and of a Group of Water Colour Paintings by Robert D. Norton, January 7 – 29, 1928, catalogue #42, traveling to the Art Association of Montreal, February 17 – March 25, 1928, titled as Totem Poles, Hazelton, B.C., catalogue #42
Western Tour including Pacific Exhibition, Vancouver, from August 12, 1928, Group of Seven loan; New Westminster Provincial Exhibition, September 1928; Edmonton Museum of Arts Loan Exhibition, October 29– November 3, 1928, titled as Night on the Skeena, catalogue #19; Calgary Public Museum, December 1928; Drumheller Public Library, February 1929
Eric Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, Highlights from “Embracing Canada,” October 22 – November 5, 2016, catalogue #21
Eric Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, Collectors’ Treasures II, Annual Loan Exhibition, October 24 – November 7, 2020, catalogue #2
Eric Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal, Masterpieces of Canadian Art, Annual Loan Exhibition, November 4 – 18, 2023, catalogue #8
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Estimate: $800,000 - $1,000,000 CAD
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