Artworks

Baie St. Paul was a gift of A.Y. Jackson to Emma Lillian Breithaupt. Emma was the younger sister of Rosa Melvina Hewetson Clark, a friend of A.Y. Jackson (according to Charlie Hill, also a distant cousin).

Rosa, along with her husband, Herbert Spencer founded the Guild of All Arts (GAA) in 1932. The GAA began as a co-operative artists’ colony and later opened the facility to the general public, first offering meals and then, later, lectures, concerts, and overnight accommodations in what became known as the Guild Inn.

Throughout the years, numerous artists and craftspeople came to live in Guildwood, as it would come to be called, by invitation of the Clarks, including A.J. Casson and Jackson. The Guild would also host many celebrity patrons, including Lester B. Pearson, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, Glenn Gould, and Laurence Olivier.

Baie St. Paul, c. 1928 was given to Lillian and Rosa’s younger brother, Paul Theodore Breithaupt. The latter would later gift the work to his son, Paul Alexander Breithaupt, who in turn bequeathed it to his wife.  It remained in the Breithaupt family until it was acquired by Alan Klinkhoff Gallery in 2017.

Jackson later worked this sketch up into a 21 x 26 inch canvas, Winter, Baie St. Paul, 1928, which was reproduced on the cover of the catalogue for the important exhibition A.Y. Jackson: Thirty Years of Painting, held at the Dominion Gallery in May 1946.