Approaching Storm, Qu’Appelle Valley (Allegro Maestoso) 1911

Alternate titles:

• A Storm on the Prairies
• Allegro Maestoso

1911

Oil on Canvas

146 cm. x 91 cm.

Signed l.l.: C.W. JEFFERYS '11

Provenance

Estate of the Artist

(1912 – for sale at CNE Dept. of Fine Arts, Aug 24-Sept. 9, 1912, asking $600.00  - unsold)

By descent to Margaret and Harold Stacey, Willowdale, Ontario

By descent to Callie Stacey and Jean-Guy “Chuck” Richard, Lakefield, Ontario

MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

Exhibition History

• 1911 - R.C.A. 33rth annual exhibit, Nov.
• 1911 - O.S.A. April 1911, possibly
• 1912 - Arts and Letters Club, April
• 1912 - Canadian National Exhibition
• 1912 - R.C.A. group show, Civic Art Gallery, Winnipeg
• 1977 - Agnes Etherington Gallery, Nov. 7 – Dec. 12, 1976, then circulating Aug. 12, 1977 – cat#38
• 1978 - Ontario Legislative Building, July 1-Sept. 1, 1978
• 1984 - Western Sunlight: C. W. Jefferys on the Canadian Prairies - 1984, cat. 33

• 1991 - The True North Canadian Landscape Painting 1896 - 1939

• 2002 - McMichael Gallery – “Qu’Appelle:  Tale of Two Valleys”, cat. # 104
• 2013 - National Gallery of Canada, “Artists, Architects, Artisans:  Canadian Art 1890-1918”, Nov. 2013 – Feb. 2014
  
• 2019 - MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan The Permanent Collection: Walking With Saskatchewan, June 8, 2019 - April 19, 2020

Published References

• Canadian National Exhibition.   Catalogue of Department of Fine Arts.  Toronto, CNE, 1912.  illus.  p. 55-56
• Extensive coverage, p. 34-35 in Stacey’s Western Sunlight, q.v.
• Goddard, Peter.  “Little art show from the prairie:  McMichael gallery tells tale of Qu’Appelle Valley.”  In Toronto Star, 9 March 2002, p. J15.  Illus.

  “Ring and Stacey point out that a good number of the pieces come from private collections and have been rarely seen by the public.  A range of work comes from British-born landscape specialist C.W. Jefferys, most notably a large pair of impressionistic canvases making up half of his Prairie Sonata group (1910-1911.”

Remarks

• Restored by June Bramall, 1972. Condition:  In a letter to MWS from Agnes Etherington Art Centre curator Frances Smith: 

  “As I mentioned to Robert, there is a surface scratch, 5 cm long, on A Storm on the Prairie, situated 21 cm in from left edged and 9 cm from the bottom. This appeared for the first time in the condition report (outgoing) from the Glenbow-Alberta Institute and must have occurred there.  It is not a serious scratch, but you should be aware of it.”

  See also condition reports 2013 and 2014, from National Gallery of Canada.