Height 23.0 cm x Width 30.0 cm
A graphite sketch on paper of a group of maple trees with sap buckets attached to the base of the trunks. There are boulders on the ground among the maple trees. The maple trees take up the majority of the picture plane. Trees and other undistinguished foliage is depicted in the background. The title of the work and the artists signature "A Y Jackson" are in the bottom right corner in pencil. There is a rough sketch of a barn on the verso.
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.
