Estate of Jack Shadbolt

Born 1909, England
Grew up in Victoria, BC
Lived in Burnaby, BC,
Died 1998 in Vancouver

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1936:
Vancouver Art Gallery (landscapes and drawings)

1939:
Vancouver Art Gallery (drawings, watercolours and canvases)

1940:
Vancouver Art Gallery (mural panels and caricatures)

1941:
Vancouver Art Gallery (drawings, watercolours and canvases)
Art Gallery of Toronto (two-person exhibition with Eric Bergman)
Kenneth McAllister's Studio, Victoria Brock Memoral Building, University of British Columbia

1942:
"The Occupation of Point Grey" series, Point Grey Masonic Hall, Vancouver, also shown at Brock Hall, University of BC
Vancouver Art Gallery, February
Vancouver Art Gallery, October (watercolours)

1943:
"Drawings and Watercolours in the Camouflage Training School", Point Grey, by Spr. J.L. Shadbolt
Vancouver Art Gallery
Faculty Room Library, University of British Columbia

1944:
T. Eaton Gallery, Toronto

1946:
Vancouver Art Gallery (watercolours) Victoria College Library
Spencer's Art Gallery, Victoria (watercolours) Sponsored by Vancouver Island Region, Federation of Canadian Artists

1947:
Vancouver Art Gallery
Mildred Brock Room, Brock Hall, University of BC

1948:
Laing Galleries, Toronto
"Paintings by J.L. Shadbolt", Vancouver Art Gallery

1949:
Laurel Art Gallery, New York City (ink and watercolours of animal, bird, figure and landscape forms)

1950:
A Review of Paintings and Drawings 1933-1950", University of British Columbia Art Centre Gallery
Art Gallery of Toronto (seed pods and grasses)

1952: San Francisco Museum of Art

1953:
School of Art, Winnipeg
Paintings by J.L. Shadbolt 1948-1953, Vancouver Art Gallery
San Francisco Art Institute, School of Art

1954:
"J.L. Shadbolt: Recent Paintings", Arts Centre of Greater Victoria (Bird Themes)
"Roloff Beny and Jack Shadbolt", Art Gallery of Toronto (two-person exhibition)

1955:
E.J. Hughes and Jack Shadbolt, Musee des beaux arts, (two-person exhibition)

1957:
"Paintings from the Cote d'Azur", New Design Gallery, Vancouver

1958:
"J.L. Shadbolt", Seattle Art Museum (Mediterranean paintings)

1959:
Burnaby Municipal Hall, Sponsored by the Burnaby Art Society
"J.L. Shadbolt: Ten Year Retrospective Exhibition", Vancouver Art Gallery

1960:
Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle (calligraphic paintings)
Laing Galleries, Toronto New Design Gallery, Vancouver (gouaches and script inventions)

1961:
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Greek notations)
"Jack Shadbolt Recent paintings from Greece, Italy and France
New Design Gallery, Vancouver Laing Gallereis, Toronto (Mediterranean paintings)

1962:
Zoe Dusanne Gallery, Seattle
"Greek Gouaches by Jack Shadbolt", circulated by Western Canada Art Circuit to Edmonton, Victoria, Regina, Calgary, Brandon and New Westminster

1963:
New Design Gallery, Vancouver (paintings in acrylic, gouache and inks)

1964:
Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto
"Studies for Airport Mural", Edmonton Art Gallery, Travelled to Winnipeg, Charlottetown, Victoria and Vancouver
(1964-65)
"Jack Shadbolt peintures 1960-1964, Galerie Agnes Lefort, Montreal

1965:
"The Space Between Columns", New Design Gallery, Vancouver

1966:
Angel's Camp Gallery, Victoria (script paintings)
 "Other Birds", New Design Gallery, Vancouver

1967:
Burnaby Art Gallery (retrospective 1939-1967)
"A Black and White Exhibition by Jack Shadbolt", Douglas Gallery, Vancouver

1968:
London Public Library and art Museum, Ontario

1969:
"Jack Shadbolt", Vancouver Art Gallery, organized by the VAG in collaboration with the National Gallery of Canada, Curated with a catalogue by Anthony Emery. Exhibited at: National Gallery of Canada, Memorial University of St. John's, Newfoundland, Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Edmonton Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Winnipeg Art Gallery Art, Gallery of Greater Victoria
Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto (Drawings from "In Search of Form")
Galerie Godard Lefort, Montreal
Fleet Gallery, Winnipeg (drawings)

1970:
The Print Gallery, Victoria (Modular Variations)

1971:
"The Architecture of a Winter Garden", West Vancouver Visual Arts Society
"Recent Paintings", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver
"The Hornby Suite (Homage to Emily Carr)", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (publication of folio announced)
"About Owls", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver

1972:
"The Chilkoot Experience", Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia

1973:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (new work and original drawings from "Mind's I", poems and drawings) Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("To Old Gardens, Articulated Fetish, Ritual of the Arrow", triptychs)
"A Given Number of Owls", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (mural commissioned by the National Arts Centre, Ottawa)

1974:
"Triptychs", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("Bride, Transformations, Mystery of Flower")
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto ("Mountain Summer" triptychs)

1975:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("African Dream" series)

1976:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto ("India Suite")
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("Coast Indian Suite)

1977:
Bau-xi Gallery, Vancouver ("Landscape Events)
"Triptychs 1977", Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto ("Butterfly, Transformations, Mountain Summer Series")
Canadian Embassies in Washington, DC and Houston, Texas

1978:
"Jack Shadbolt, Seven Years", Vancouver Art Gallery, curated with a catalogue by Ted Lindberg
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("Wild Grass Suite and Flowering Bush" series)

1979:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("Summer Suite", triptychs, sculpture notes)
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto ("Dark Landscapes and Cages")

1980:
"Early Watercolours", Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
"Hornby Summer 1980", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (including "Morning Deck")
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto (triptychs and "Equivalents for Landscape")

1981:
"Jack Shadbolt: Summer Exhibition", Kyle's Gallery, Victoria
"Act of Art", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto (limited edition of "Act of Art" and accompanying original works)
"Collioure Drawings", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (1958 and 1961)

1982:
"Butterfly Transformation Frieze", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver

1982-83:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto ("Equivalents for Landscape")

1983:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver ("Equivalents for Landscape")

1984:
"Jack Shadbolt: Cross Cultural Notations", Art Gallery of Peterborough, curated with a catalogue by Illi-Maria
Tamplin "New Works", Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto
"Act of Painting", Vancouver Art Gallery, curated with a catalogue by Scott Watson

1986:
"Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image", Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, curated with a catalogue by Marjorie Halpin
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver

1988:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver (twice) and Toronto
"Butterfly Transofrmation Theme", Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Prince George Art Gallery, BC

1989:
Vancouver Art Gallery (from the permanent collection)

1990:
Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver and Toronto
Whatcom Counry Museum, Bellingham

COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario Art
Investment Corporation
BC College of Physicians and Surgeons
BC Government Collection
Canada Council Art Bank