5th of 121 works found
Mexican Evening
Artist
Shadbolt, Jack
Title
Mexican Evening
Technique
serigraph
Date
1981
Dimensions
66.6cm height x 101.9cm width
Type
print
Accession Number
1984.14
Owner
City of Burnaby
Collection
Permanent Collection
"Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada".
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.