SARAH JEANETTE JACKSON

Titled "What's New in Moose Jaw", pencil signed and dated (19)78 lower left, original ink drawing on paper, sight 26.7 x 20.3cm (10 1/2 x 8in) - Sarah Jeanette Jackson (nee Sherman), 1924-2004, 20th century Canadian artist who studied sculpture and received a BA from the University of London in 1946; after graduating from Wayne State University (Detroit) with an MA in 1948, Jackson travelled across the western United States to Mexico and taught sculpture and lectured in art history at Mexico City College in the summer 1948; a year later she moved to London, England where she married British architect Anthony Jackson and produced a number of sculptural works that were integrated with buildings designed by her husband; in 1956 she participated in the exhibition "This Is Tomorrow" held at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, where she and a group of artists including her husband exhibited their works; her paintings can be found in many prominent collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Postal Museum, the Hirschhorn Museum, the Smithsonian Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as the Art Museum of Nova Scotia where a retrospective exhibition of her work was held in 2001