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Buchanan, Donald, ed.  Canadian painters from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven.

            London, Phaidon,1944.  25 p. plus 87 plates.  Illus.

  1. 10-11 - “Public recognition came the same year [1911] when a group of his sketches were shown there [A&L Club]. 

            Charles W. Jefferys wrote then as follows:  ‘Mr. MacDonald’s art is native –

            as native as the rocks, or the snow, or pine trees, or the lumber drive

            that are so largely his themes.  He seems to be able to forget what other

            men have selected, and how other men have expressed themselves, and

            in an age of such universal information as ours, and a country so  provincial

            and imitative in its tastes as Canada, these are rare qualities’.  Jefferys,

            who wrote this, had been an illustrator of competence in New York.  Later

            he had returned to Toronto, and by 1905, he had begun to paint various

            compositions, clear and simple, of western prairies.”

  1. 15 -  “In Toronto, MacDonald in the spring of the following year has his

            work shown for the first time at the annual exhibition of the Ontario

            Society of Artists.  But more prominently displayed on the walls are

            paintings by Jefferys of western and prairies scenes…  These particular

            canvases provide tentative notes of a new but strictly naturalistic

            approach to Canadian landscape.”

  1. 23-24 -  “Charles W. Jefferys, R.C.A. (1869-   )

                        “Born in Rochester, England.  Came to Canada in 1881, and

                        settled in Toronto, where he studied art.  Later he worked for some

                        years as illustrator in New York.  President of Graphic Arts Club,

                        Toronto, 1903-4.  Elected R.C.A. 1926.  Worked for the Canadian

                        War Memorials, 1916-1918.

                        Plate 24:  Prairie Trail (1918) 25 ½ by 30 ½ .  The Art Gallery

                        of Toronto.”

            plate 24:  “Prairie trail”      

  1. 85 -  ‘Index of artists…Jefferys, Charles W., No. 24”



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