Jock Macdonald

Nationality: Scottish-born Canadian

Training: Edinburgh College of Art; Studied under Charles Paine and John Platt

Group: Painters Eleven; B.C. Soceity of Artists; Canadian Group of Painters; Royal Canadian Academy; Ontario Society of Artists; 20th century

Peers: Frederick Varley; Lawren Harris; Jack Bush; William Ronald

Provenance: purchased from the artist by the Founders in 1938

Subject: landscape; North Westcoast First Nations motifs; transcendentalism



Other Works in the Vancouver Art Gallery Collection

Jock Macdonald
Landscape Sketch, 1934
oil on wood panel
McLean Foundation Fund
VAG 64.15

Jock Macdonald
Indian Salmon Rack - Fraser Canyon B.C., 1931
linocut on paper
Gift of Harry Hood Estate
VAG 77.51

Jock Macdonald
Indian Salmon Rack - Fraser Canyon B.C., 1931
linocut on paper
Gift of Harry Hood Estate
VAG 77.52

Jock Macdonald
Mountains, 1933
pen and ink on paper
Gift of Harry Hood Estate
VAG 77.53

Jock Macdonald
Mountains, 1933
pen and ink on beaver bond paper
Gift of the Harry Hood Estate
VAG 77.54

Jock Macdonald
Indian Burial at Nootka, 1935
black ink and pencil on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 86.94

Jock Macdonald
Graveyard of the Pacific, 1935
oil on board
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 89.14 a

Jock Macdonald
Mt. Kitchener and Glacier, Columbia Icefields, Alberta; Mt. Kitchener & Glacier, Columbia Icefields Alberta, 1941
oil on wood panel
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 89.27

Jock Macdonald
Peaks at 10 A.M. - Near Banff, Alberta, 1953
oil on canvasboard
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 90.10

Jock Macdonald
Old Trees, Chekamus Canyon, 1929
ink on wove paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 90.11

Jock Macdonald
Skyscrapers, 1929
ink on wove paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 90.31.1

Jock Macdonald
The Black Quartet; The Black Quartette, 1946
ink and watercolour on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 90.31.2

Jock Macdonald
B.C. Indian Village, 1943
gouache, ink and pencil on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 91.36

Jock Macdonald
Footsteps in the Sand, 1946
watercolour and india ink on wove paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 92.41.2

Jock Macdonald
Castle Towers - Garibaldi Park B.C., 1943
oil on canvas
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 93.36

Jock Macdonald
Red Bastion, 1957
oil and Lucite 44 on hardboard
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 93.43

Jock Macdonald
Fall (Modality 16), 1937
oil on canvas
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 93.71

Jock Macdonald
Bird Romance, 1946
ink and watercolour on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 94.44

Jock Macdonald
Drying Herring Roe, Friendly Cove, 1936
oil on panel
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 95.17

Jock Macdonald
Pine Tree, Indian Lake, Nootka, B.C., 1936
ink on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 98.6

Jock Macdonald
Nootka Lighthouse, Nootka B.C., 1936
watercolour
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund with the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act
VAG 98.8

Jock Macdonald
Fall Sunlight, 1957
oil on canvasboard
Gift of Charles W. Humphries
VAG 99.28.1

Jock Macdonald
Forest Glimmer, 1957
oil on canvasboard
Gift of Charles W. Humphries
VAG 99.28.2

Jock Macdonald
Playtime, 1936
watercolour on paper
VAG 99.29.1

Jock Macdonald
Untitled, 1945
watercolour on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.2

Jock Macdonald
Untitled, 1945
watercolour and ink on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.3

Jock Macdonald
Untitled (Automatic), 1946
watercolour and ink on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.4

Jock Macdonald
Untitled ("Barbara and Jock"), c.1952
watercolour and ink on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.5

Jock Macdonald
Untitled (Santa Claus), 1956
watercolour and ink on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.6

Jock Macdonald
Untitled (Street Scene), c.1957
ink, pastel and watercolour on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.7

Jock Macdonald
Untitled; Untitled (Lighted Windows at Christmas), 1958
watercolour, ink on paper
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 99.29.8

Jock Macdonald
Bald Hill, (near Rutland) B.C., 1944
oil on canvas board
Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund
VAG 2000.44

Jock Macdonald
The Black Tusk, Garibaldi Park, B.C., 1932
oil on canvas
Gift of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa
VAG 2004.24.1

Jock Macdonald
Autumn Orange, 1956
oil on canvas
Purchased with the assistance of a Movable Cultural Property grant accorded by the MInister of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act/Acheté avec l'aide d'unde subvention des Biens culturels mobiliers accordée par la ministre du Patrimoine canadien en vertu de la Loi sur l'exportation et l'importation de biens culturels
VAG 2005.1.1

Jock Macdonald
Memory of Music, 1959
oil on canvas board
Purchased with the assistance of a Movable Cultural Property grant accorded by the Minister of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act/Acheté avec l'aide d'un de subvention des Biens culturels mobiliers accordée par la ministre du Patrimoine canadien en vertu de la Loi sur l'exportation et l'importation de biens culturels
VAG 2005.1.2

Jock Macdonald
Untitled, 1960
oil on canvas
Purchased with the assistance of a Movable Cultural Property grant accorded by the Minister of Canadian Heritage under the terms of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act/Acheté avec l'aide d'un de subvention des Biens culturels mobiliers accordée par la ministre du Patrimoine canadien en vertu de la Loi sur l'exportation et l'importation de biens culturels
VAG 2005.1.3