The Brothers La Verendrye in Sight of the Western Mountains

ca. 1915

Watercolour on paper

26 cm. x 37 cm.

Signed l.l.: C.W. JEFFERYS (in red)

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Margaret and Harold Stacey, Willowdale, Ontario

Callie Stacey and Jean-Guy Richard, Lakefield, Ontario

Exhibition History

• Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1915, Montreal Cat. 113, titled “Verendrye discovering the Rocky Mountains”, watercolour

• Mellors Fine Arts Gallery, Toronto, one-man show of CWJ pictures, cat. 32, asking $135.00 – not sure if this is the same version.

Published References

• Burpee, Lawrence J.,  Pathfinders of the Great Plains. Chronicles of Canada Series, Toronto, Glasgow, Brook and Co., 1915.  Frontis. 

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