Œuvres d'art

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, visiting at the origin of the mining era there in ‘38, again in ‘49 and here in 1959, the year before the original mine was closed, cements Jackson’s important legacy in art lyrically interpreting for Canadians a remote area of Canada , but that was politically of importance.