Jackson repeatedly expressed his frustration with the changing landscape of rural Quebec, writing to Anne Savage on 11 April 1932, “Strange effects of the depression. The lumber camps were all shut up this winter and so the boys, having nothing to do, are tearing down their old barns and putting up new unpaintable ones.” By 1947 he had to go even further down river to find subjects and from La Malbaie he wrote to Harry McCurry, director of the National Gallery on 25 March, “This...