Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in
Jackson at work in the Studio Building, Toronto, 1944
Red Maple (1914), by A. Y. Jackson
Group of seven artists: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Fairley, Frank Johnston (artist), Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald
Cathedral at Ypres, Belgium, 1917, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
Kleinburg is a suburban historic village in the City of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, an art gallery with a focus on the Group of Seven, and the Kortri
A. Y. Jackson
…teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario. Jackson was born in Montreal, the son of Eliza Georgina (Young) and Henry Allen Jackson. As a young boy, Jackson worked as an office boy for a lithograph…
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection gallery in Kleinburg
A view showing Main Street (now Islington Avenue) in Kleinburg, circa 1910.
Downtown Kleinburg in 2021.
Bindertwine Park in Kleinburg