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Dark Fruition

Photo: Paul Macapia

Dark Fruition

1952

Jack Leonard Shadbolt

Canadian, 1909-1998

Ink and casein on paper
26 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (66.68 x 89.54 cm)
Northwest Annual Purchase Fund
58.125
Provenance: The artist; purchased by the Seattle Art Museum, November 6, 1958
Photo: Paul Macapia
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 44th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, 1958

Valparaiso, Indiana, Sloan Galleries, Art of the Northwest Coast, 1962. Exh. brochure, no. 20

London, England, Tate Gallery, Canadian Painters, 1964

Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Exhibition of Flower Paintings, 1964

Ottawa, Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art, Centennial Exhibition, 1967

Vancouver, B.C., The Vancouver Art Gallery, Jack Shadbolt Retrospective, October 15-November 2, 1969. [Circuit: Ottawa, Ontario, The National Gallery of Canada, January 23-February 27, 1970; St. John's, Newfoundland, Art Gallery, Memorial University, March 17-April 19, 1970; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Confederation Art Gallery, May 4-24, 1970; Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery, June 11-July 11, 1970; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Mendel Art Gallery, July 26-August 16, 1970; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg Art Gallery, August 30-September 20, 1970; Victoria, B.C., Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, October 6-25, 1970.]

Edmonton, Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery, Winnipeg West: 1945-1965, September 2 - October 10, 1983. [Circuit: Surrey, B.C., Surrey Art Gallery, October 20-November 13, 1983; St. Catherine, Ontario, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, December 2, 1983-January 1, 1984; Hamilton, Ontario, Art Gallery of Hamilton, February 16-March 18, 1984; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, June 1984; Windsor, Ontario, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, July-August, 1984; Montreal, Quebec, Sir George Williams Art Galleries, Montreal, Quebec, October-November 1984.]

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, The Glenbow Museum, Jack Shadbolt Retrospective, November 9, 1991-January 5, 1992. [Circuit: Vancouver, B.C., Vancouver Art Gallery, June 5-July 30, 1992; Montreal, Quebec, Musee d'Art Contemporain Montreal, October 27-November 21, 1992; Ottawa, Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, December 18, 1992-February 7, 1993.]

Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Jet Dreams: The Northwest in the Fifties, March 17-June 4, 1995

Published ReferencesHubbard, RH and Jean René Ostiguy. Three Hundred Years of Canadian Art. Exh. cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1967, p. 170, no. 281

Jack Shadbolt. Exh. cat. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1969, p. 54, no. 52

English 302: An Introduction To Canadian Literature, Unit 1: Frontier Experiences. Edmonton: Athabasca University, 1979, p. 35

Finlay, Karen. "Identifying with Nature: Graham Sutherland and Canadian Art, 1939-1955." In RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne/Canadian Art Review, vol. 21, no. 1-2 (1994), p. 53, ill. p. 54 fig. 10

Johns, Barbara. Jet Dreams: Art of the Fifties in the Northwest. Exh. cat. Tacoma: Tacoma Art Museum, 1995, p. 112, ill. p. 67

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