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James Williamson Galloway Macdonald (31 May 1897 – 3 December 1960), commonly known in his professional life as Jock Macdonald, was a member of Painters Eleven (Painters 11, or P11), [1] whose goal was to promote abstract art in Canada. Macdonald was a trailblazer in Canadian art from the 1930s to 1960. He was the first painter to exhibit ...
James Williamson Galloway Macdonald (31 May 1897 – 3 December 1960), commonly known in his professional life as "Jock" Macdonald, was a member of Painters Eleven (Painters 11, or P11), whose goal was to promote abstract art in Canada. Macdonald was born in May 1897 in Thurso, Scotland. Before coming to Canada, Macdonald attended the Edinburgh ...
- British, Canadian
- May 31, 1897
- Thurso, Scotland, United Kingdom
- December 3, 1960
Jock Macdonald was a trailblazer in Canadian art from the 1930s to 1960. He was the first painter to exhibit abstract art in Vancouver, and throughout his life he championed Canadian avant-garde artists at home and abroad.
(Jock Macdonald, 1940) A painter, watercolourist, teacher, printmaker, illustrator and commercial artist, Jock Macdonald was a significant figure in the development of abstract art in Canada. A contemporary of the Group of Seven, and a close friend of Emily Carr, he was inspired early on by the Western landscape and spirituality.
Jock Macdonald, I Know a White Kingdom, 1931, linocut, 6.2 x 6.2 cm, illustration for The Neighing North, by Annie Charlotte Dalton, 1931. In Dalton, Macdonald found a kindred spirit who shared his love of the land. Though his linocut illustrations are small, they impart an incontestable power. Landscape Painting.
Jock Macdonald was a leading pioneer of abstract painting in Canada. Committed to the belief that contemporary art had to be based on “20th-century concepts about nature, space, time and motion,” he became a staunch advocate for contemporary artistic expression. He was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and Painters Eleven ...
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May 25, 2008 · J.W.G. Macdonald, 1959, oil on canvas, 122.3 x 149.2 cm (courtesy AGO/T-22). James Williamson Galloway ("Jock") Macdonald, artist (born 31 May 1897 in Thurso, Scotland; died 3 December 1960 in Toronto, ON). Instrumental in founding the Calgary Group in 1947, he was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters and in the influential ...
