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Arctic in Summer

A. Y. Jackson

BIRTH YEAR 1882
BIRTH PLACE Montreal, Quebec
DEATH YEAR 1974
DEATH PLACE Kleinburg, Ontario
MEDIUM Oil on canvas
DATE c. 1961
DIMENSIONS 101.6cm x 82.5cm x 2.5cm
ACCESSION NUMBER FAC 0666
CREDIT LINE Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, the Ottawa Art Gallery. Donated to the City of Ottawa by the Ontario Heritage Foundation
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A winter landscape featuring a bare tree in the right side of the painting with a trunk curved to the left and curled branches. The tree stands in a snow-covered field with large rocks and some frozen grass coming through the snow. In the distance, a rolling landscape in browns, blues and white is set under a sky filled with masses of clouds that build from right to left. A patch of blue sky occupies the upper right corner of the image.

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