Height 23.0 cm x Width 30.0 cm
Two graphite sketches done on a single piece of paper. On the recto is a sketch entitled "Rosebud, September". It depicts a rolling landscape with handwritten notations along the bottom with the artists signature "A Y Jackson" in the bottom right. On the verso is the sketch entitled "Rosebud, Alberta". The sketch is a rolling landscape with hills, a group of trees in the mid ground and a building on the left. There are handwritten notations throughout the sketch with the title of the work and the artists signature "A Y Jackson" along the bottom. It is set in a white mat board.
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.
