A Prairie Trail (“Scherzo”), 1912

Exhibition History

• 1912 - Royal Canadian Academy 
• 1913 - The MacDowell Club of New York Exhibition

Provenance

Publication References

• Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.  Catalogue of the thirty-fourth annual exhibition of arts in the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, November the twenty-eighth,

  p. 15  -  “Charles W. Jefferys   York Mills, Ont.

  132. The Valley, Saskatchewan.
  133. Grey Day in the Autumn Woods.
  134. A Prairie Trail.”

  p. 23-24  -  “Addresses of exhibitors…Charles W. Jefferys, York Mills, Ont.”

  Toronto, RCA, 1912.  24 p.
• Beatty, J.W.  “Canadian art appreciated.”  In Canadian Courier, Dec. 28, 1912, p. 6.  Illus. 
  “’A Prairie Trail’ by C.W. Jefferys, full of glorious Canadian sunlight and fairly reeking with truth of character of our great west.”

• The MacDowell Club of New York.  Exhibition of paintings by J.W. Beatty… Charles W. Jefferys…1913.  New York, the Club, 1913.  2 p. “Catalogue   Charles W. Jefferys

  34. The Qu’Appelle Valley (Andante)
  35. A Prairie Trail (Scherzo)
  36. Bright Day in Saskatchewan (Allegro Vivace)”

• Ontario Society of Artists.  Forty-first annual exhibition.  Toronto, OSA, 1913. 30 p. plus illus.

  p. 14  - “Jefferys, Charles W., A.R.C.A. 51. A Prairie Trail.

• “Different schools of art are worthily represented in new gallery collection…” In The Globe, November 7, 1922, p. 14.

  “This week the Toronto public is privileged to see the complete collection of the paintings, prints and etchings which the Exhibition authorities have purchased over the last ten years.” “To the Canadian who knows what the prairie is, C.W. Jefferys’ ‘A Prairie Trail’ is one of the interesting pictures of the exhibit.  One senses that the artist has succeeded in catching something of the feeling for his distances that makes the prairie dweller let who will talk of less spacious surroundings.  A woodlan scene by Jefferys is another outstanding Canadian picture…”

• Fenton, Terry, ed.  Painting in Saskatchewan, 1883-1959.  Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery, 1967.

  p. 18  -  “A Prairie Trail”

• Art Gallery of Ontario:  the Canadian collection.  Toronto, McGraw-Hill, 1970, 603 p.  Illus.

  p. 219  -  “A Prairie Trail”

• Ontario Society of Artists:  100 years.  Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario,

  1972. 64 p.  Illus.

  p. 7  -  “Jury of the OSA Annual Exhibition, 1916.”  CWJ far right

  p. 22  -  Catalogue number “68.  Jefferys, C.W. (1869-1951)

  A Prairie Trail, 1912

  Oil on canvas, 34-3/4 x 50-3/4

  Ins.  Recto:  Signed l.l., ‘C.W. Jefferys ‘12’

  Ex.:  OSA, 1913, no. 51;  OSA retrospective, 1922, no. 93,

  as The Prairie Trail; OSA, 1952, Jefferys memoria, no. 13

  Gift of the Canadian National Exhibition Association, 1965

  Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto”

  p. 46  -  “A Prairie Trail, 1912”

• Lord, Barry.  The History of Painting in Canada:  Toward a People’s Art. Toronto, NC Press, 1974.  253 p.  Illus.

  p. 117  -  “A Prairie Trail”

• Boyle, Terry.  “C.W. Jefferys.”  In Robert McLaughlin Gallery Bulletin, Feb. 1977.  Folder.  Illus.

  “A Prairie Trail, 1912”

• Stacey, Robert.  “A contact in context:  the influence of Scandinavian landscape

  painting on Canadian artists before and after 1913.”  Northward Journal,

  no. 18/19, 1980, p. 36-56.  Illus.

• Rees, Ronald.  “Painting, place and identity:  a prairie view.”  In Western Geographical Series, v. 20, 1982, p. 116-142.  Illus.

  Figure 4,6  C.W. Jefferys  ‘A Prairie Trail’ 1912 Art Gallery of Ontario (p. 130)”

• Western sunlight:  C.W. Jefferys on the Canadian prairies.  Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery, 1986.  105 p.  Illus.

  Inside front cover – “A Prairie Trail, 1912”

• Brown, Craig, ed.  The Illustrated History of Canada.  Toronto, Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1987.  575 p.  Illus.

  plate between p. 416 and 417  -  “A Prairie Trail”

• Berry, Virginia.  Vistas of promise:  Manitoba, 1874-1919.  Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.  88 p.  Illus.

  cover  -  “A Prairie Trail, 1912”

• Stobie, Margaret.  “To the land of milk and honey:  nine days and nights on the trail, 1904, an Alberta pioneer memoir…”  In Beaver, June-July 1990, p. 6-13.  Illus.

  p. 9  -  “A Prairie Trail, 1912”

• Murray, Joan.  Masterpieces:  Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven.   Toronto, Key Porter, 1994.  196 p.  Illus.

  p. 32  -  “A Prairie Trail (‘Scherzo’), 1912”

• Dickenson, Victoria, et al.  The good lands:  Canada through the eyes of artists.  Vancouver, Figure 1, 2017.  273 p.

  p. 24  -  “A Prairie Trail”

  p. 262 – caption for A Prairie Trail

• Revealing the never before seen work of Canadian painter C.W. Jefferys. Toronto, Arts and Letters Club, 2017.  8 p.  Illus.

  p. 5  -  “The Valley of the Qu’Appelle (‘Andante’)’, 1912

  “A Prairie Trail (‘Scherzo’), 1912

• Arts and Letters Club.  “Lost painting of C.W. Jefferys to be unveiled at the Club!” In Lampsletter, 76:6, June 2017, p. 3.Illus.

  re Robert Baines finding “ A Bright Day in Saskatchewan”, Vivace, in the garage attic at 4111 Yonge St. following Elizabeth Jefferys Fee’s death in 2010.  Not  illustrated. But illustrated is the Scherzo movement:  A Prairie Trail.

• Art Gallery of Ontario.  Art of the day.  November 8, 2019. 1 p.  Illus.

  https://artgalleryofontario.tumbllr.com

  Accessed November 19, 2019.

  “A Prairie Trail (‘Scherzo’), 1912.”

• Trans Canada Trail.  11 stunning masterpieces that capture The Great Trail.

  2019.  16 p.  Illus.

  https://thegreattrail.ca/stories/11-stunning-masterpieces-that-capture-the-great-trail/

  Accessed November 10, 2019. Relevant pages only.

  p. 1   “The Good Lands (http://figure1publishing.com/book/the-good-lands/),

  a recently-published collection of Canadian artworks…here is a selection of our favourites.”

  p. 10  -  “’9. A Prairie Trail (Scherzo)’,  Charles W. Jeffreys [sic], 1912

  In this painting, we get a very different image of Canada to the mountains and lakes often portrayed by the Group of Seven. Rolling fields, pastoral shades and the seemingly-endless horizon take centre stage here in this bright work.”