Height 23.0 cm x Width 30.0 cm
Two graphite sketches done on a single piece of paper. On the recto is the sketch entitled 'Rosebud, Alberta' which depicts the town of Rosebud with a street that travels diagonally from the mid ground to the bottom right corner. There are multiple buildings on the far side of the road. The title of the work and the artists signature "A Y Jackson" is handwritten in pencil in the bottom right corner. The sketch, 'Flowers' on the verso depicts four different stems of flowers with "Alberta" written along the bottom.
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.
