Height 23.0 cm x Width 30.0 cm
Two graphite sketches given the same title and done on the same piece of paper. On the recto is a simple sketch of a grouping of buildings in the centre of the composition with a softly rolling landscape surrounding them. The title of the work and the artists signature "A Y Jackson" is handwritten in pencil in the bottom right corner. On the verso is a landscape featuring a group of trees in the centre-right foreground with a rolling landscape and trees in the background. 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.
