Landscapes from the Permanent Collection. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1980

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J.W.G. Macdonald (1897-1960)     Indian Burial, Nootka (1937)

Macdonald was born in Scotland and studied in Edinburgh. He taught in England, then came to Vancouver to teach at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Art in 1926. He later went to Calgary, then to Toronto where he was a teacher at the Ontario College of Art, after 1947. He is best known for his canvases which he did as a member of Painters Eleven.