Main Street, Winnipeg, Looking South

1902

pen and black india ink over graphite on card

41.9 x 51 cm

Signed and dated l.l.: C.W. JEFFERYS '02

Inscribed bottom: MAIN STREET, WINNIPEG LOOKING SOUTH

Provenance

The Artist

Jefferys Estate Archive, Toronto, Ontario

National Gallery of Canada 

Exhibited

• 1984 - Western Sunlight: C. W. Jefferys on the Canadian Prairies

Publication References

• Toronto Art League.  1903:  Nineteen hundred & 3; a calendar for the year with some pictured aspects of Canadian cities.  Toronto, Musson Book Co. Ltd. n.p.  Illus.

  opp. September  -  “Main street, Winnipeg, Looking South”

• The Canadian historical calendar, 1976.  Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1975. n.p.  Illus.

  Back cover – [Winnipeg Main Street]

• Berry, Virginia.  Vistas of promise:  Manitoba, 1874-1919.  Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1987.  88 p.  Illus.

  p. 52  -  “Main Street, Winnipeg, 1902”

• Osborne, Brian S.  “’The kindling touch of imagination’:  Charles William Jefferys and Canadian identity.”  In A few acres of snow:  literary and artistic images of Canada, edited by Paul Simpson-Housley and Glen Norcliffe, 28-47.Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1992.

  p. 41  -  “Main Street, Winnipeg, looking south, 1902”