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Entrance to Halifax Harbour
Purchased 1924
architecture
Canada
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Halifax
harbour
history
house
military: World War I
places
religious
residential
road
sea
seascapes and coasts
seasons
ship, warship
snow
society
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
weather
winter
World War I - non-specific
painting oil paint canvas
1 July 2006
11 May 2006 – 10 May 2012
2012-05-10
2006-05-11
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, Canada)
2006-07-01
Long loan to Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Loan-out
The Entrance to Halifax Harbour
support: 648 × 806 mm
frame: 842 × 1002 × 92 mm
Purchased 1924
<strong>A.Y. Jackson</strong> 1882-1974
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/jackson-the-entrance-to-halifax-harbour-n03967" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03967</span></a> <strong>Entrance to Halifax Harbour</strong> 1919
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Inscribed 'A.Y. JACKSON | 19' b.r.<br/>
Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 31 3/4 (65 x 80.5); a further 1 3/4in (4.5cm) of the painted surface is turned in below<br/>
Purchased from the artist at Wembley (Grant-in-Aid 'T' Fund) 1924<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Group of Seven Canadian Artists</em>, Worcester Art Museum, Mass., November 1920 (14); Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Montreal, November-December 1922 (108); <em>British Empire Exhibition</em>, Palace of Arts, Wembley, April-October 1924 (EE 27); <em>Canadian Section of Fine Arts</em>, Leicester Art Gallery, November-December 1924 (104)<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Albert H. Robson, <em>A.Y. Jackson</em> (Toronto 1938), p.30, repr. p.31 in colour; A.Y. Jackson, 'Reminiscences of Army Life 1914-18' in <em>Canadian Art</em>, XI, No.1, autumn 1953, p.10; A.Y. Jackson, <em>A Painter's Country</em> (Toronto 1958), p.41, repr. facing p.40 in colour; Dennis Reid, <em>The Group of Seven</em> (exh. catalogue), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June-September 1970, pp.135-6
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A.Y. Jackson was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia, late in January 1919 as his last assignment for the Canadian War Records, but found on his arrival that the large troopships were at that time being diverted to other ports. Finding little worth recording, he went to Bedford with Arthur Lismer to do some sketching for himself. By 15 March he had heard that the large troopships were back on the Halifax run, and so went to Halifax to do sketches of the <em>Olympic</em>. On 16 April he returned to Montreal for discharge from the army, and then went on to Toronto to finish the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> for the War Records. It appears that none of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/canvas" title="Glossary definition for 'Canvas'"><span>canvases</span></a> painted in Canada - all of which were probably finished in Toronto - was purchased for the War Records. (Reid, loc. cit.).
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In addition to this picture and a large canvas of the <em>Olympic</em> anchored in the middle of the harbour surrounded by tugs (a picture which he destroyed a couple of years afterwards as it had become a nuisance in the studio), he also painted in Halifax 'The Old Gun, Halifax', now in the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, and 'Herring Cove', privately owned.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.370, reproduced p.370
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-13T00:00:00
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architecture Canada church cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Halifax harbour history house military: World War I places religious residential road sea seascapes and coasts seasons ship, warship snow society townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water weather winter World War I - non-specific