Painted in the year after Chambers returned to Canada from the village of Chinchón, Spain, this highly coloured and apparently celebratory painting records a vision of dead relatives’ faces floating above a fantasy landscape and an overladen table set for a holiday celebration. Chambers reveals his growing knowledge of recent international art while focusing, in part through photographs of relatives, on his own heritage and the local context. McGilvary County is a leap into a new creative environment.
Art of Perception: Jack Chambers’s Inner Vision
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Jack Chambers, McGilvary County, 1962
Oil and mixed media on wood, 132.9 x 120 cm, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto