Jock W.G. Macdonald: A Retrospective Exhibition. Toronto: The Art Gallery of Toronto, 1960.

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N.B.—All paintings are signed and dated except the following: nos. 45, 54; no. 1 is signed but not dated. No. 46 was eliminated from the exhibition and no. 61 to 67 on attached list were added too late to be included in the catalogue.

JOCK W.G. MACDONALD

Born in Scotland in 1897. Studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. Came to Canada in 1926 to take up the appointment of Head of the Design Department of the Vancouver School of Art which post he held from 1926 to 1933. Co-Director British Columbia College of Art with F.H. Varley from 1933 to 1935. During the war years his duties as deputy district warden with the A.R.P. in North Vancouver curtailed his painting. In 1946 moved to Calgary to become Director of the Art Department of the Institute of Technology and Art. Since 1947 he has been on the staff of the Ontario College of Art. In 1954 he spent a year in France on a Royal Society of Canada Fellowship.

PAINTINGS

9. INDIAN BURIAL, NOOTKA
Oil on canvas    36" x 28"
Dated 1937
Lent by The Vancouver Art Gallery,
purchased from the Artist, 1938