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In Search of A.Y. Jackson

23/2/2019

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Last summer Debbie and I spent a week in Agawa beach campground in Lake Superior Provincial Park.  I had seen a painting by AY Jackson that I know was painted on a beach near Wawa.  It was used on one of the Moments of Algoma interpretive installations on Sandy Beach.  It is a good thing that I researched the location before I went because the painting location is not on the beach that the interpretive installation is on.  Using topo maps and google maps satellite view I figured where I thought the most likely location was.  
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This first image is of a painting done on Sandy Beach which is just south of the highway near Wawa Ontario.  Apparently A Y Jackson spent many a summer in a cabin at this end of the beach and I have no doubt that he would have painted this rather unique point. 

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​On the left is AY Jackson's "Shoreline, Wawa" which I believe was painted in 1955. I knew that it was painted somewhere near this location and my research paid off.  I had to walk a bit and climb over a rugged rocky point to get to the small cove where he painted but the very distinctive lone rock on the shore told me that I was there.
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​This is my interpretation of the same scene.  I met Jackson at the McMichael Gallery back in the early seventies but I wasn't an artist at the time and I had no idea the impact that he would have on me in later years.  He was signing reproductions of his paintings and I elected not to purchase one.  Oh if I had only known.




I am very excited about this painting.  I think that it is one of my best however it may be the story behind it is biasing my opinion of how good it is.  Does anyone have any thoughts?  How about you Mary?
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Painting with the Group of Seven - OSA Lake

20/2/2019

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I have fallen in love with painting at Group of Seven locations.  It started out as one or two but now that I am searching them out I decided to organize my results in a blog starting with two summers ago.

It all started in October 2017.  Every year my son and his friends plan a fall canoe trip to a location where I want to paint and in 2017 it was OSA Lake in Kilarney.  Shortly after we got back Jim and Sue Waddington (In The Footsteps of The Group of Seven) posted an image of a painting by A. Y. Jackson on Facebook and they asked if anyone knew where it had been painted.  I did because I had unknowingly painted the same scene from the same location as Jackson.  I was thrilled. My painting is very different from his but I now felt a personal connection to Jackson and his art.
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​The image to the left is A. Y. Jackson's "Trout Lake" and the one on the right is mine.  I'm sorry about the red line but I don't have permission to post the image of his painting.  My painting isn't one of my best but what a thrill.
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I became hooked on painting where members of the group painted.  The next fall trip was planned for Grace and Nellie Lakes and I had some research and planning to do.
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    John Christie

    I am an artist who works almost exclusively from life.  Either in front of a sitting model or outside at my easel or better yet sitting on a rock during a canoe trip.

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