Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image

by Marjorie M. Halpin

Jack Shadbolt was inspired in his formative years by his contact with Emily Carr and with her brooding works portraying the remnants of Indian villages against the overwhelming wilderness. He made sketches of Indian artefacts and the Cowichan Reserve in the 1930s, but it was only after World War II that elements of Indian art began to show up in his style. Marjorie Halpin finds in the changes in the way Indian forms occur in Shadbolt's paintings an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774802626
• ISBN13: 9780774802628
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 9.9"