Height 23.0 cm x Width 30.0 cm
A graphite on paper sketch of St. Hilarion, Quebec. The sketch was done from the perspective of the outskirts looking towards town with hydro poles in the foreground that continue down the street, disappearing in the background. There are multiple buildings drawn throughout the rough uneven landscape of the town with a church in the top left 1/4 of the drawing. There are multiple handwritten notations written throughout the drawing. The sketch is signed "A Y Jackson" along the bottom with the title of the sketch in the bottom right corner.
A.Y. Jackson often sought subjects in land tilled and untamed, from the farms of the Saint Lawrence Valley to the rocky outcrops of Georgian Bay and the peaks of the Rockies. Jackson, especially, had a wanderer's heart, as these drawings, ranging from 1927 to the late 1940s, attest: views of the rolling hills of the Charlevoix are joined by quickly-sketched, annotated images of the rougher climes of Northern Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and even the eastern Arctic.
There were at least two documented sketching sojourns to the town of Saint Hilarion, in 1925 and 1933. Saint Hilarion is located on the inland road from Baie-Saint-Paul to la Malbaie, and Jackson described it as being "like one of the Italian hill towns; the country around is cleared of trees, and the town stands on the top of the hill.”
