A.Y. Jackson
Glacier Bay, Port Radium, N.W.T., 1959
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 in
40.6 x 50.8 cm
Glacier Bay, Port Radium is a fine composition of 1959 by A.Y. Jackson painted on his third trip to the Great Bear Lake area in the Northwest Territories, on the edge of the Arctic Circle. His first visit to Port Radium was in 1938 with Gilbert Labine, a prospector and the owner of the uranium/radium mine. The story of the mine is an interesting one, including its important contribution of uranium in the development of the atomic bomb. A. Y. Jackson’s attachment to Port Radium,...
40.6 x 50.8 cm
$55,000
Glacier Bay, Port Radium is a fine composition of 1959 by A.Y. Jackson painted on his third trip to the Great Bear Lake area in the Northwest Territories, on the edge of the Arctic Circle. His first visit to Port Radium was in 1938 with Gilbert Labine, a prospector and the owner of the uranium/radium mine. The story of the mine is an interesting one, including its important contribution of uranium in the development of the atomic bomb. A. Y. Jackson’s attachment to Port Radium,...