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Alexander Young (AY) Jackson

Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson (1882 - 1974) was active/lived in Quebec / Canada.  Alexander Jackson is known for Landscape and marine painting.

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Alexander Young Jackson was best known as one of the members of the Group of Seven, the famous group of Canadian modernist painters.  Born in Montreal, he started working at age twelve after his father abandoned the family of six children. The young Jackson went to work as an office boy for a Montreal printing company, where he received his earliest training.

In 1906, he attended art classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. One year later Jackson traveled to Europe on a cattle boat, remaining in Paris to study at the Academie Julian until 1912. He decided to become a professional painter after studying Impressionism in Paris.

He returned to Canada and settled in Montreal.  He often took sketching and painting trips to the near by countryside. Back in Toronto, an artist by the name of J.E.H. MacDonald contacted Jackson about a painting he had seen earlier in a Toronto exhibition.  Jackson soon developed a friendship with MacDonald, and was th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5847 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  71
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art Times New Art Books October 2003 Editor, Art Times Yes
American Art Review The Group of Seven in Western Canad October 2003 Editors, American Art Review Yes
Wildlife Art The Global Charisma of Nature March 2002 Brown, Joan Yes
71 Book References for Alexander Young (A.Y.) Jackson
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Little, John Who Killed Tom Thomson: 409 No
2014 Sinclair, Catherine Miriam and Hudson Sargeant: Art Collection (Ottawa Art Gallery) 35 Yes
2013 Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario 357 Yes
2013 Gouch, Jane Lytton Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art 239 Yes
2012 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition) 506 Yes
2010 Hedgpeth, Don Robert Lougheed Follow the Sun 360 Yes
2009 Gimblett, Richard H. The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010, The Centennial Story 230 Yes
2009 Larsen, Wayne A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter 265 Yes
2007 Newlands, Anne Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings 366 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Brandon, Laura Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist 241 Yes
2005 Bruce, Tobi and Janice Anderson Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario) 319 Yes
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2003 Glenbow Museum The Group of Seven in Western Canada
(Exhibition catalog)
208 Yes
2003 Holubizky, Ihor and Robert McKaskell 1953 94 Yes
2003 Kaye, Frances W. Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies 301 No
2003 Silcox, David P The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson 441 Yes
2001 Murray, Joan The Birth of the Modern: Post Impressionism in Canada, c. 1900-1920
(Exhibition catalog)
160 Yes
1999 Dault, Gary Michael E.B. Cox- A Life in Sculpture 108 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Hunter, Andrew Home Base: Notes to an Installation (Kamloops Art Gallery) 36 Yes
1998 Stacey, Robert and Stan McMullin Massanoga: The Art of Bon Echo 101 Yes
1996 Christensen, Lisa A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies 134 Yes
1995 Hill, Charles C The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation
(Exhibition catalog)
374 Yes
1995 Lowrey, Carol Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
152 Yes
1994 Berton, Pierre Winter 239 Yes
1993 Ray, Timothy Imponderable Joys: The Work of Austin Cooper
(Exhibition catalog)
36 Yes
1993 Woodward, Kesler E Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum 160 Yes
1992 Shaw, Catherine Elliot Collective Efforts: 50 Years of Intentionality 59 No
1990 Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward) Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada 230 Yes
1990 Duval, Paul Canadian Impressionism 166 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)
622 No
1989 Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton) 122 Yes
1988 Donegan, Rosemary Industrial Images (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario)
(Exhibition catalog)
143 No
1988 McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal) 417 No
1988 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition) 418 Yes
1987 Krueger, Pamela Works from the McCuaig Collection in the Laurentian University Museum (Now Called Art Gallery of Sudbury) 56 No
1986 McMichael, Robert One Man's Obsession 410 No
1986 Morrin, Peter (others) The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918
(Exhibition catalog)
200 Yes
1986 Thom, Ian Murals from a Great Canadian Train 191 Yes
1984 Murray, Joan Daffodils in Winter: The Life and Letters of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1904-1949 350 No
1982 Leighton, David; Peggy Leighton, McClelland, Stewart Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School 160 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1979 Morris, Jerrold 20th Century Canadian Drawings 107 No
1978 Adamson, Jeremy Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930 231 Yes
1978 Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art 119 Yes
1978 Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art 96 No
1977 McDougall, LAnne Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter 199 Yes
1977 Robertson, Heather A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War (Sponsored by Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Canadian War Museum) 240 Yes
1977 Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape 159 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Williamson, Moncrieff Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum) 88 Yes
1975 Hill, Charles C Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue)
(Exhibition catalog)
223 Yes
1974 Frankenstein, Alfred Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art
(Exhibition catalog)
63 Yes
1973 Hubbard, R H Canadian Landscape Painting 1670-1930
(Exhibition catalog)
198 Yes
1973 Reid, Dennis A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973 319 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1970 Reid, Dennis The Group of Seven
(Exhibition catalog)
0 No
1970 Townsend, William Canadian Art Today 114 Yes
1968 Groves, Naomi Jackson A Y's Canada Pencil Drawings by A Y Jackson 258 No
1967 Duval, Paul The McMichael Conservation Collection of Canadian Art 96 Yes
1967 Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art 254 Yes
1967 National Gallery of Canada Canadian Painting 1850-1950 National Gallery Travelling Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1966 Harper, J Russell Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition) 443 No
1966 Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art 128 Yes
1964 Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes) 234 Yes
1958 Jackson, A.Y. A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson 182 Yes
1948 National Gallery Of Canada Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada
(Exhibition catalog)
271 No
1936 Lismer, Arthur Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters' 12 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1917 Holme, Charles Art of the British Empire Overseas 144 Yes
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