Artist: Jock Macdonald (1897 - 1960)
Nationality: Scottish-Canadian
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Jock MacDonald was born in Scotland but moved to Canada in 1926 to become a professor at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. He was initially inspired by the Group of Seven’s work but began painting abstracts in 1934. He continued to paint in this manner for quite sometime, later infusing Surrealist elements into his work. He was an influential professor at several art colleges in Canada and helped spur the modern art movement in the country.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Artist: Jock Sturges Title: Christina, Christy, Dawn and Alysa Date: 1989 Medium: gelatin silver print
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James Jebusa Shannon - Portrait of Diana MacDonald 1894 oil on canvas Brighton and Hove Museums English
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Untitled, 1962
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Carl Mayer, Macdonald, 18th - 19th century
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John MacDonald Aiken, Margaret, 19th - 20th century
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John MacDonald Aiken, Interior of St. Patrick"s, Rouen, 19th - 20th century
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Gilbert Charles Stuart, James MacDonald of Inglesmauldie, circa 1785
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Rev. Dr. John Macdonald
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright - Synchromy in Purple 1918-1919 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Carved hacha Veracruz Classic period, A.D. 500–800 Gulf Coast region, México, Veracruz Black diorite with
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright - Portrait of Riza Royce 1932 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Stanton Macdonald Wright - Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization 5) 1914-17 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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Roi (Roy) Partridge, Dancing Water, 1911
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Randall Borough, Camp Bohemia, 1915
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Robert Swain Gifford, An October Day, 1881
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John Sloan, Fifth Avenue Critics, 1905
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Mary Cassatt, Mlle. Margot without her hat, circa 1894
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Joseph Pennell, Pilot Town, La. (Untitled), 1882
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Pedro Joseph Lemos, Russian River, 1915
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Robert Harshe, San Lorenzo, early 20th century
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George T. Plowman, American - Mexicali, Mexico , 1911
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Otto Henry Bacher, Harbor, 19th - 20th century
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Washstand, 1904 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868-1928), DesignerOak, ceramic tile, lead, colored and mirror glass;
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Henry Farrer, The Road, circa late 19th century
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Frederick Stuart Church, A Cold Morning, 19th - 20th century
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James David Smillie, Poppies, Goodnight and Sweet Dreams , 1888
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Anonymous, A page of calligraphy from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, A page of calligraphy from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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AndrČ J. Smith, Brookville, Long Island, early 20th century
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Mohammed Ali, A page of calligraphy from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, A page of calligraphy from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, A page of calligraphy from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, A page of calligraphy from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, Frontispiece, a page from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Francesco Guardi, The Doge of Venice Receiving Ambassadors in the Sala dei Collegio, after the painting by Francesco Guardi in the Louvre, 19th century
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Anonymous, Women*s Dancing Party, a page from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, The Gardens and Waterfalls of Kashmir,a page from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, The Lake of Kashmir with the Gardens, a page from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Mihr Chand, Portrait of Assadkhan Alamgir, a page from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780
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Anonymous, The Fort and Royal Palace of Shah Jehan, a page from the Lady Coote Album, circa 1780

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (17)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Color, Myth, and Music:Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
Among his many accomplishments, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, along with fellow American painter Morgan Russell, fathered the Synchromism movement. Convinced that color and sound were equivalent phenomena and that one could o...
Andrew Mummery Gallery: Paintings of Peter Lynch
It would be a mistake to read Lynch's work purely in terms of the history of modernist abstraction or see it as purely "process painting". Although Lynch undoubtedly, and not always seriously, plays with modernist tropes, something more fundamenta...
Artangel: Giya Kancheli: Imber
For three nights over August Bank Holiday, Imber will finally lay its past to rest – the result of a three year-long project commissioned by Artangel with the support of the British Army and the Diocese of Salisbury. Transformed by a special...
Yale School of Architecture Galleries: Transcending Type:
"Transcending Type" presents their designs, which range from the "humanized" highway interchange by the firm Reiser + Umemoto to the installation by Predock_Frane for a contemplative space, made up of 5,000 barely visible green and white suspended...
Textile Museum of Canada: Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality
Avaalaaqiaq is deeply committed to preserving her heritage and making it accessible to an international audience. Much of her work focuses on Inuit legends passed along by her grandmother, as well as a world view derived from oral tradition and ex...
Art Gallery of Ontario: In Light: Video Installation by Seth Price
The Art Gallery of Ontario is proud to highlight the importance of video art. Begun on April 6, 2002 and running until April 4, 2004, an exhibition series entitled In Light presents video installations by eight contemporary artists. This two-year ...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists (1850-1950)
Almost all the figurative artists who gathered in the artistic communities of southern California during that time had studied in Eastern and European academies which stressed the primacy of the figure. Arriving in California, they faced two chal...
Frick Collection: Whistler, Women, and Fashion
The exhibition is organized by Susan Grace Galassi, Curator at The Frick Collection, and Margaret F. MacDonald, a leading Whistler scholar and Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Whistler Studies at the University of Glasgow; Aileen Ribe...
Cambridge Galleries: Translinear: 12 Canadian Artists
The concise premise of the exhibition is that painting has a particular visual language and that paintings exist to generate a state of awareness or understanding on the part of the viewer which is not limited by context, time or place. By bringin...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: John Drawbridge - Wide Open Interior
John Drawbridge has been a leading figure in New Zealand printmaking since his return from study in England and Europe in the mid-1960s. His paintings are less well known but equally impressive. Wide Open Interior is the first exhibition to p...
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artsdepot gallery: Pressure: Photographs by Horace Ové
He was active during this period, working alongside artistic factions and political activists, but at the same time had the vision and artistic ability to document events, individuals and the gatherings of black peoples from Africa, Caribbean a...
Gasworks Gallery: Shelf Life: Works by 12 International Artists Curated by smith + fowle
Artists included are: Bitterkomix (SA), Maria Hedlund (SW), Paul Khera (UK), Robert Linder (USA), Euan Macdonald (C), Kerry James Marshall (USA), Robin Rhode (SA), Freddie Robins (UK), Dario Robleto (USA), Will Rogan ...
Royal College of Art: THE SHOW 2001
The Show 2001 is the Royal College of Art's internationally renowned annual summer show which gives visitors the chance to experience the talents of postgraduate students from all over the world. Many of last year's graduating st...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Folds, Blobs, and Boxes: Architecture in the Digital Era
Joseph Rosa, curator of architecture at the Heinz Architectural Center, organized the exhibition. In just over a decade, we've seen the practice of architecture completely revamped by this new design software, he said. I doubt if architects w...
Vancouver Art Gallery: E.J. Hughes: Work from the Early 1930s to Present
Hughes remarkable career as an artist, which continues to this day, spans 70 years and encompasses his work as a gifted printmaker, successful muralist, outstanding Canadian war artist and prolific painter. His paintings depict land, sea and smal...
Museum of Fine Art, Glassell School of Art: Innate Contours: James Surls Drawings Glassell School of Art

Without question, James Surls is one of Texass most acclaimed artists of the late twentieth century, said Valerie Loupe Olsen, curator of the exhibition and associate director of Glas...

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