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ALEXANDER YOUNG JACKSON, O.S.A., R.C.A.YELLOWKNIFE FROM INGRAHAM HOTELoil on panelsigned; titled on the reverse 10.25 ins x 13.5 ins; 26 cms x 34.3 cms Provenance:Private Collection, OntarioNote:From the vantage point of Yellowknife's Ingraham Hotel, A.Y. Jackson models a landscape that is at once desolate and powerful. In a burnt-umber scene, dotted with low-lying buildings, six figures mill about. But it is not the brightly-clad people that beckon one's eye - rather, it is the three densely black birds in the foreground. So immediate is their presence that it is almost as if they are emitting a caw and squawk that is impossible to ignore.A 1970 article from Globe and Mail reporter Louis Cauz notes, "The large mischievous and rather ominous-appearing raven is held in such high esteem... that it has become the symbol of this small city in the Northwest Territories." Jackson's portrayal of Yellowknife shows a frontier town that is emblematized by the ravens, both triumphant and secure.According to the present owner, this work was purchased in Yellowknife directly from the artist circa 1950.