A.Y. Jackson was a member of the Group of Seven and is regarded by many as the “Grand Old Man” of Canadian painting.

Born in Montreal, he studied art at the Monument-National and at the Montreal Art Association with William Brymner. Later, Jackson went to the Chicago Art Institute and to the Académie Julian in Paris to study under J.P. Laurens. It was while he was in France that he painted “Pont des Invalides”; a beautiful early example of the impressionist style of painting that was to make him famous.

Jackson returned to Canada in 1913 and became an official war artist (1917-1919), during World War I. He was a founding member of the Group of Seven and established himself as a major landscape painter in Canada. Jackson was noted for his winter landscapes of the South Shore of the St. Lawrence below Quebec City, and he also travelled and painted in the Arctic, Algonquin Park, the Rockies and other parts of the country, as well as in Britain, France and Italy.

Jackson’s work is in virtually every major public art collection in Canada.