1st of 121 works found
Still Life with Red Colander
Artist
Shadbolt, Jack
Title
Still Life with Red Colander
Date
1957
Dimensions
57.2cm height x 76.2cm width
Type
painting
Accession Number
1960.1
Owner
City of Burnaby
Collection
Permanent Collection
Gift of H. Mortimer-Lamb
Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) was a Canadian artist, teacher, author and poet born in Shoeburyness, England and raised in Victoria, BC. He studied in London, Paris, and at the Art Students’ League in New York City. As a young artist he taught in high schools in BC, and eventually earned a faculty position at the Vancouver School of Art. Shadbolt was an official war artist during WWII in the Canadian Army, and was the first artist to participate in the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops in 1955. In 1972, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has had over 70 solo exhibitions around the world and is represented in the public collections of the Burnaby Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario and several others.