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James Williamson Galloway (Jock) Macdonald 1897 - 1960 Canadian oil on canvas Garibaldi Park, BC " 26 x 30 inches 66 x 76.2 centimeters signed and dated 1942 Literature:Joyce Zemans, Jock Macdonald, The Inner Landscape: A Retrospective Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981, page 101, a similar 1943 oil on canvas entitled Castle Towers, Garibaldi Park reproduced page 103 Provenance:Acquired directly from the Artist By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver Jock Macdonald arrived in Canada from England in 1926 to take a position at the Vancouver School of Art as Head of Design. While there, he met Group of Seven artist Fred Varley, and in 1933 they formed their own art school, the British Columbia College of Arts. Macdonald accompanied Varley on numerous sketching trips, visiting Garibaldi in 1929 and 1934. Macdonald also became friends with Lawren Harris in the early 1940s, accompanying him on sketching expeditions that included the Rockies. He shared Harris's profound interest in the spiritual properties of this majestic landscape. The summers of 1942 and 1943 found Macdonald in Garibaldi Park once again, and in its silence and grandeur, as Zemans writes, he "sought once again to integrate the spiritual and formal concerns of his art." While there, Macdonald was inspired by the Sphinx Glacier, calling it "the most powerful force I have ever seen outside the mountainous waters of the open Pacific." This stunning painting of Garibaldi Park possesses clarity and precision, and a keen awareness of light and atmosphere that transmits a transcendent grandeur.