Alternate titles:

• The Truant Jester
• The Jester

Date: 1935

Medium: Oil on canvas

Signed l.l.: C.W. JEFFERYS '35

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Orval and Barbara Jefferys Allen, Deville, Alberta

Jocelyn Aubrey, Fraserville, Ontario

Exhibition History

• 1935 - O.S.A. 63rd. Annual Exhibition
• 1935 - 56^th exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy, November 1935

Published References

• Ontario Society of Artists.  Catalogue of the sixty-third annual exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists, March [1], 1935.  Toronto, OSA, 1935. 19 p.  Illus.

  p. 3  -  “Members…JEFFERYS, C.W...”

  p. 11  -  “JEFFERYS, C.W., R.C.A., O.S.A., LL.D.  York Mills, Ont.

  97.  It’s a Cold World……42 x 28……………..350.00

• “Pictorial Art of Canada on display;  56^th exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy officially opened…”  In Montreal Herald, Nov. 22, 1935, p. 3.

  “The well-known Academician, Charles Jefferys of Toronto, is also represented.  Known to school children all over Canada for his reproductions in the school books, in ‘It’s a Cold World’ he has turned to a different field. A shivering jester dressed in old world motley stands uncomfortably in the wintry blast.  He has also a water color and a pen and ink sketch.”

• “Art Gallery scene of R.C.A. exhibition…”  In Montreal Gazette, Nov. 23, 1935, p. 19.

  “Charles W. Jefferys, R.C.A., tries a departure in subject in his watercolor ‘The Dark Huntsman’ and is amusingly decorative in ‘It’s a Cold World’ –a jester in a snowy landscape.”