Height 23.0 cm x Width 30.0 cm
Two graphite sketches done on a single piece of paper, both titled "Go Home Bay, Ontario". The sketch on the recto depicts a bay with the body of water in the middle and background. The shoreline is very rocky with trees and foliage all around. The title of the work and the artists signature "A Y Jackson" is handwritten in pencil in the bottom left corner. The sketch on the verso is of a body of water with a rocky island in the mid ground with a few sparse trees on it. The shoreline is in the foreground, it is somewhat absent of foliage and is depicted as uneven and rocky. Rolling hills and the suggestion of trees is in the background behind the island. There are handwritten notations throughout the sketch.
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.
