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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 ear... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (71)
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Who Killed Tom Thomson:
2018
Little, John
409 pages
Miriam and Hudson Sargeant: Art Collection (Ottawa Art Gallery)
2014
Sinclair, Catherine
35 pages (color)
AGO: Highlights from the Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario
2013
Editor, Art Gallery of Ontario
357 pages (color)
Mount Robson: Spiral Road of Art
2013
Gouch, Jane Lytton
239 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian Painting, (Third Edition)
2012
Reid, Dennis
506 pages (color)
Robert Lougheed Follow the Sun
2010
Hedgpeth, Don
360 pages (color)
The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010, The Centennial Story
2009
Gimblett, Richard H.
230 pages (color)
A.Y. Jackson: The Life of a Landscape Painter
2009
Larsen, Wayne
265 pages (color)
Canadian Paintings, Prints and Drawings
2007
Newlands, Anne
366 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Pegi By Herself: The Life of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Canadian Artist
2005
Brandon, Laura
241 pages (color)
Lasting Impressions: Celebrated Works from the Art Gallery of Hamilton (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario)
2005
Bruce, Tobi and Janice Anderson
319 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Group of Seven in Western Canada (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Glenbow Museum
208 pages (color)
1953
2003
Holubizky, Ihor and Robert McKaskell
94 pages (color)
Hiding the Audience: Viewing Arts and Arts Institutions on the Prairies
2003
Kaye, Frances W.
301 pages
The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson
2003
Silcox, David P
441 pages (color)
The Birth of the Modern: Post Impressionism in Canada, c. 1900-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Murray, Joan
160 pages (color)
E.B. Cox- A Life in Sculpture
1999
Dault, Gary Michael
108 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Home Base: Notes to an Installation (Kamloops Art Gallery)
1998
Hunter, Andrew
36 pages (color)
Massanoga: The Art of Bon Echo
1998
Stacey, Robert and Stan McMullin
101 pages (color)
A Hiker's Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies
1996
Christensen, Lisa
134 pages (color)
The Group of Seven: Art for a Nation (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Hill, Charles C
374 pages (color)
Visions of Light and Air: Canadian Impressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Lowrey, Carol
152 pages (color)
Winter
1994
Berton, Pierre
239 pages (color)
Imponderable Joys: The Work of Austin Cooper (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ray, Timothy
36 pages (color)
Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum
1993
Woodward, Kesler E
160 pages (color)
Collective Efforts: 50 Years of Intentionality
1992
Shaw, Catherine Elliot
59 pages
Masterpieces of Canadian Art: From the National Gallery of Canada
1990
Burnett, David; Dr. Shirley L. Thomson (Foreward)
230 pages (color)
Canadian Impressionism
1990
Duval, Paul
166 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Art Gallery of Hamilton: Seventy-Five Years (1914-1989) (Art Gallery of Hamilton)
1989
Fox, Ross and Grace Inglis
122 pages (color)
Industrial Images (Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario) (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Donegan, Rosemary
143 pages
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts-Spring Exhibitions 1880-1970 (Formerly Art Association of Montreal)
1988
McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing
417 pages
A Concise History of Canadian Painting (Second Edition)
1988
Reid, Dennis
418 pages (color)
Works from the McCuaig Collection in the Laurentian University Museum (Now Called Art Gallery of Sudbury)
1987
Krueger, Pamela
56 pages
One Man's Obsession
1986
McMichael, Robert
410 pages
The Advent of Modernism Post-Impressionism...1900-1918 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Morrin, Peter (others)
200 pages (color)
Murals from a Great Canadian Train
1986
Thom, Ian
191 pages (color)
Daffodils in Winter: The Life and Letters of Pegi Nicol MacLeod, 1904-1949
1984
Murray, Joan
350 pages
Artists, Builders and Dreamers-50 Years at the Banff School
1982
Leighton, David; Peggy Leighton, McClelland, Stewart
160 pages
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
20th Century Canadian Drawings
1979
Morris, Jerrold
107 pages
Lawren S. Harris: Urban Scenes and Wilderness Landscapes, 1906-1930
1978
Adamson, Jeremy
231 pages (color)
Modern Painting in Canada: Major Movements in Twentieth Century Canadian Art
1978
Fenton, Terry; Karen Wilken
119 pages (color)
Coasts, the Sea and Canadian Art
1978
Varley, Christopher and Jeffrey Spaulding
96 pages
Anne Savage: The Story of a Canadian Painter
1977
McDougall, LAnne
199 pages (color)
A Terrible Beauty: The Art of Canada at War (Sponsored by Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Canadian War Museum)
1977
Robertson, Heather
240 pages (color)
From Desolation to Splendour Changing Perceptions-The British Columbia Landscape
1977
Tippett, Maria/Douglas Cole
159 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Through Canadian Eyes: Trends and Influences in Canadian Art, 1815-1965 (Glenbow Museum)
1976
Williamson, Moncrieff
88 pages (color)
Canadian Painting in the Thirties (National Gallery of Canada Exhibition Catalogue) (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Hill, Charles C
223 pages (color)
Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water An Exhibition of American & Canadian Art (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Frankenstein, Alfred
63 pages (color)
Canadian Landscape Painting 1670-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Hubbard, R H
198 pages (color)
A Concise History of Canadian History, 1973
1973
Reid, Dennis
319 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
The Group of Seven (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Reid, Dennis
0 pages
Canadian Art Today
1970
Townsend, William
114 pages (color)
A Y's Canada Pencil Drawings by A Y Jackson
1968
Groves, Naomi Jackson
258 pages
The McMichael Conservation Collection of Canadian Art
1967
Duval, Paul
96 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art
1967
Hubbard, R.H.; J.R. Ostiguy
254 pages (color)
Canadian Painting 1850-1950 National Gallery Travelling Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1967
National Gallery of Canada
32 pages (color)
Painting in Canada: A History (Second Edition)
1966
Harper, J Russell
443 pages
Great Canadian Painting: A Century of Art
1966
Kilbourn, Elizabeth; Frank Newfeld
128 pages (color)
Art and Man---The Modern World (Book Three of 3 Volumes)
1964
Brieger, P.H.; George Vickers, F.E. Winter
234 pages (color)
A Painter's Country: The Autobiography of A.Y. Jackson
1958
Jackson, A.Y.
182 pages (color)
Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada (Exhibition catalog)
1948
National Gallery Of Canada
271 pages
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by the 'Canadian Group of Painters'
1936
Lismer, Arthur
12 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index