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Great Canadians
BC Indian Village
J.W.G. “Jock” MacDonald · 1943
- Medium
- Oil silkscreen on board
- Signature
- Supervised by A.J. Casson
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Selected: 40″ × 50″, approx. 20 lbs · Made to order — ships in 6 weeks
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About this work
In 1935, Jock MacDonald moved his family to the west coast of Vancouver Island. Home of the First Nation Nuu-chah-nulth people, Nootka Sound provided very difficult living conditions; however, during the year MacDonald’s family camped there, he painted some of his most important works. When A.Y. Jackson asked MacDonald to contribute to the Sampson-Matthews wartime silkscreen art program, he produced “B.C. Indian Village” (1943), a stylised rendering of the type of coastal settlement he experienced during his time on Vancouver Island. Totem poles stand proudly along a sandy shore as figures work along the waterline in front of a white church on the foothills of the large mountains in the distance.