signed & dated lower right
Leighton was working as a commercial artist in England, in 1924, when he was hired by the Canadian Pacific Company to paint scenes along the railway. He made his first journey to Canada in 1925, followed by a second in 1927, moving here permanently in 1929 after accepting the position of Director at the Art Institute of Calgary. Leighton’s first Canadian exhibition consisted of 27 works of the Rockies (along with 40 additional works depicting the English countryside). The Canadian Pacific retained several of these early landscapes, as did Leighton, taking a number back to England with him. These were later destroyed during the bombing raids in WWII. This work would have been among the earliest Leighton painted in the Canadian Rockies, and a rare surviving work from the period.
