Completed a few years shy of A.Y. Jackson's 50th birthday, Red Barn, Petite Rivière is one of his most charming achievements, a beautifully proportioned, sun-drenched tableau of considerable rhythmic verve and physicality, highlighted by the fluid rendering of tints in the snow. Jackson, of course, went on to paint thousands more landscapes, in all seasons and settings and parts of Canada. But as demonstrated by this painting, which was included in the 1938 exhibition A Century of Canadian Art at the Tate, London, winter seems to have been Jackson's true country, snow his preferred field of vision.
– James Adams
A.Y. Jackson (Canadian 1882-1974)
Red Barn, Petite Rivière, circa 1930, oil on canvas, 64 x 81.9 cm,
The Thomson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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