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Œuvres d'art
A.Y. JacksonGlacier Bay, Port Radium, N.W.T., 19591882-1974Oil on canvas16 x 20 inThis painting is presently on view at our Toronto gallery
40.6 x 50.8 cm$55,000Inscriptions
signed, AY JACKSON’ (lower right); dated and titled, ‘1959 GLACIER BAY, PORT RADIUM NWT’ (verso)Provenance
Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal
Private collection, Montreal
By descent to the present private collection, Westmount, Quebec
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.
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