Jock Macdonald’s career as an artist took him from design and illustration to landscape painting and, from the early 1930s onward, to a lifelong search for expression through abstraction. His quest was guided by the most current discussions of art and aesthetics and of mathematical and scientific theories. As a teacher, Macdonald integrated these ideas into his classroom; in the studio, they informed his artistic practice. At the base of that search was his belief that design and art—even abstract art—must be rooted in the natural world.
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Lytton Church 1930
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The Black Tusk 1932
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In the White Forest 1932
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Formative Colour Activity 1934
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Departing Day 1936 (dated 1935)
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Etheric Form 1936 (dated 1934)
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Fall (Modality 16) 1937
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Indian Burial, Nootka 1937
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Russian Fantasy 1946
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Scent of a Summer Garden 1952
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Black Evolving Forms 1953
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Airy Journey 1957
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Legend of the Orient 1958
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Nature Evolving 1960
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Far Off Drums 1960
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About the Author
Joyce Zemans is an art historian, curator, art critic, teacher, and administrator.
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Acknowledgements
The Art Canada Institute gratefully acknowledges the support of its generous sponsors.
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