Rocks of Georgian Bay

1917

Watercolour over graphite on wove paper

Signed and dates l.r.: C.W. JEFFERYS '17

38.8 x 46.8 cm

Provenance

The Artist

National Gallery of Canada 

Exhibited

Publication References

• “Academy opens in new gallery with O.S.A.; with O.S.A., holds a notable exhibition of pictures and sculpture, many figure paintings.”  In Globe, Apr. 6, 1918, p. 14. “Charles W. Jefferys in ‘Rocks of Georgian Bay’ gives a hint of the cold permanence of his rocky region.”

• Catalogue of the joint exhibition of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and of the Ontario Society of Artists, opening April the fourth, 1918.  Toronto, Art Museum of Toronto, 1918.  56 p.  Illus.

  p. 21  -  “Chas. W. Jefferys, A.R.C.A.   York Mills

  83.  Rocks of Georgian Bay.   (Water colour).”

• “For the National Gallery;  trustees make 23 purchases from the joint display of R.C.A. and O.S.A.”  In Toronto Star, Apr. 5, 1918, p. 5. “Twenty-three of the art exhibits at the combined display of the Royal Canadian Academy and the Ontario Society of Artists have been purchased by the trustees of the Canadian National Gallery at Ottawa.  The following were the selections for the National Gallery:  Pictures….C.W. Jefferys, A.R.C.A., ‘Rocks of Georgian Bay,’ $150….”

• Ontario Society of Artists.  Seventy-first annual exhibition…March 5^th---- April 29^th, 1943.  Toronto, OSA, 23 p. OSA, 1943.  23 p.  Illus. p. 3 

  p. 22- “Chas. W. Jefferys - - 219 Rocks of Georgian Bay (Water Colour) Lent by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa”

• Duval, Paul.  Canadian watercolour painting.  Toronto, Burns and MacEachern, 1953. n.p.   Illus.

  plate 21  -  “Rocks of Georgian Bay” 1917

• Hubbard, R.H.  The National Gallery of Canada, Catalogue of paintings and sculpture:  volume III, Canadian school.  Ottawa, The Gallery, 1960. 463 p.  Illus.

  p. 148  - “Rocks of Georgian Bay”   A1485

• [Sotheby’s]  A catalogue of important Canadian paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and books of the 19^th and 20^th centuries…May 9-10, 1977.  Toronto, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1977.  112 p.  Illus. 

  p. 49  -  “Rocks of Georgian Bay”, lot no. 83

• Joyner, Geoffrey, ed.  Canadian art at auction, 1975-1980.  Toronto, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1980.  199 p.  Illus.

  p. 104  -  “JEFFERYS, Charles William, O.S.A., R.C.A. (1869-1951)

  “$1,300  ROCKS OF GEORGIAN BAY, oil on canvas board, 30 x 40, (May 77) 83”

• “Journeys northward:  1914-1936.”  In Northward Journal, no. 20, 1981, p. 40-47.  Illus.

  p. 41  -  “Rocks of Georgian Bay

• Stacey, Robert.    C.W. Jefferys.  Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 1985.  94 p.  Illus.

• Gibson, Nancy.  “C.W.Jefferys:  the artist as historian.”  In The Beaver, Dec. 1990/Jan. 1991, p.6-16.  Illus.

  p. 9  -  ‘Rocks of Georgian Bay, 1917”