A Prairie Sunset

Date: 1915

Medium: oil on canvas

Framed: 84.9 x 137.9 cm (33 7/16 x 54 5/16 in.) unframed: 71.9 x 124.7 cm (28 5/16 x 49 1/8 in.)

Signed and dated LLC: C W Jefferys '15

Copyright: Expired

Provenance

Estate of the artist

Exhibition History

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

• Qu'Appelle: A Tale of Two Valleys, The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, March 2, 2002 - May 12, 2002
• Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 14, 2002 - September 15, 2002
• MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, January 2, 2003 - May 30, 2003 (exh. Organized by the Mendel Art Gallery)

Published References

• Ontario Society of Artists.  Forty-third annual exhibition, 1915.  Toronto,

  OSA, 1915.  31 p. plus illus.  [March 13 – April 10]

  http://ccca/concordia.ca

  photocopies of relevant pages only

  p. 7  -  “OFFICERS   C.W. Jefferys, President.

  p. 8  -  “MEMBERS…..Jefferys, C.W…….York Mills. Ont.”

  p. 16  -  [PAINTINGS] 

  JEFFERYS, CHARLES W.

  66.   A Prairie Sunset $400.00

  67.  Verendrye discovering the Rocky Mountains

  68.  Frontenac’s Answer to the English Envoy

  69.  Simon Fraser on the Fraser River

  70.  Champlain’s ‘Ordre de Bon Temps’

  71.  The Fight at Montgomery’s Farm”

  Caption beside items 67-71: “Illustrations for the ‘Chronicles of

  Canada’ series – Glasgow, Brook & Co., Toronto”
  
  

• Francis, R. Douglas.  Images of the west:  images of the Canadian

  Prairies.  Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books, 1989.

  268 p.  Illus.

  Jacket illustration  -  “A prairie sunset, 1915”

  p. xiii  -  “Acknowledgements…C.W. Jefferys, A Prairie Town.

  Courtesy of Mr. Anthony Allen, Edmonton.  Wheat Stacks

  On the Prairies.  Courtesy of Government of Ontario Art

  Collection, Queen’s Park, Toronto.  Photographed by T.E.

  Moore Photography, Toronto.  With the permission of the

  Estate of C.W. Jefferys.”

  p. 169  -  “C.W. Jefferys also painted in the realistic tradition in the

  settlement period.”  4 paragraphs, see book

  p. 188  -  “A prairie town, 1925”

  p. 189  -  “Wheat stacks on the prairies, 1907”

  p. 260  -  “Bibliography…Stacey, Robert.  C.W. Jefferys.  Canadian

  Artists Series.  Otawa:  National Gallery of Canada, 1985.”
  
  

• Tooby, Michael, ed.  The true north:  Canadian landscape painting, 1896-1939.

  London, Barbican Art Gallery, 1991.  128 p.  Illus.

  p. 14  -  “A prairie sunset, 1915”

  p. 21  -  “Western sunlight, Lost Mountain Lake, 1911”

  p. 49  -  cover of brochure pub. by Temiskaming and Northern

  Ontario Railway, c 1910:  “Solid vestibule trains to the

  sportsman’s paradise” and Indian in a canoe

  p. 54  -  “The golden north” and “The mines”, from the 1900

  Toronto Art League calendar
  
  

• Ring, Dan, ed.  Qu’Appelle:  tales of two valleys.  Saskatoon, Mendel Art Gallery,

  2002.  157 p.  Illus.

  p. 24  -  “The artist’s wife and children at Last Mountain Lake, 1911”

  p.52  -  “A storm on the prairie (‘Allegro Maestoso’), 1911”

  “A prairie sunset, 1915”

  p. 53  -  “The valley of the Qu’Appelle (‘Andante’), 1912

  “Western sunlight, Last Mountain Lake, 1911”
  
  

• Revealing the never before seen work of Canadian painter C.W. Jefferys.

  Toronto, Arts and Letters Club, 2017.  8 p.  Illus.

  Photocopy of original.  Text may be by Robert Baines, a great grandson

  of CWJ.

  Also a flyer and a book mark published at same time.

  On the occasion of Robert’s unveiling of the painting at the Club,

  June 15, 2017.

  Cover:  Marion Long’s portrait of CWJ, now at the Club.

  p. 2  -  photo of “A Bright Day in Saskatchewan, to show the

  damage when Robert found it.

  p. 4  -  “Western Sunlight, Last Mountain Lake (Prelude)”, 1911

  “A Storm on the Prairie (‘Allegro Maestoso)”, 1911

  p. 5  -  “The Valley of the Qu’Appelle (‘Andante’)’, 1912

  “A Prairie Trail (‘Scherzo’), 1912

  p. 6  -  “A Bright Day in Saskatchewan (‘Allegro Vivace’), 1913

  “A Prairie Sunset 1915 (Postlude)”

  p. 8  -   untitled, larger image of “A Bright Day…”