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Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Jack Shadbolt fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Shadbolt, Jack, 1909-1998.
  
• Published/Created:1934-1990
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1493
    
  • Number of Items:103
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-100
    
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1493
    
  • Number of Items:4
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:OS-01 to 04
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Shadbolt, Jack, 1909-1998.
  MacDonald, John.
  Vancouver School of Art.
  Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)
  Watson, Wilfred.
  Maynard, Max, 1903-
  Bobak, Molly Lamb, 1920-2014.
  Firestone, Jock.
  Swinton, George.
  Thom, Ron.
  
• Description:5. 3 m of textual records and other material.
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of Shadbolt's private journals, notebooks, lecture notes, sketch books from his work with the Art Students' League of New York, 1948-1949 as well as 6 sketchbooks from the 1960s, a collection of his loose drawings and studies, an extensive collection of photographs of Shadbolt's paintings, including colour transparencies, slides of a photographic work entitled "Year", family photographs, personal and professional incoming correspondence, his picture reference file of postcards and magazine clippings, exhibition catalogues and other printed material. Correspondents include John Macdonald, Wilfred Watson, Max Maynard, Jock Firestone, Molly Bobak, George Swinton, and Ron Thom.
  
• Biography/history note:Jack Shadbolt was born in England and emigrated to Victoria, B.C. In the 1930s he taught art in the public schools in B.C., and later studied art in London Paris. He began teaching at the Vancouver School of Art in the 1940s, and at the same time pursued the development of his own painting and writing. In 1948 he attended the Art Students' League in New York where he developed his interest in abstract modern art. Shadbolt taught many art workshops, and travelled widely throughout the world. His art is held in many Canadian public buildings and galleries, and corporate and private North American collections, and has been shown in many international exhibitions.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.
  Includes: 255 drawings, ca. 1,600 photographs, 94 transparencies.