Sold for: $19,890

PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the Artist
By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver

LITERATURE
Ann Pollock and Dennis Reid, Jock Macdonald: Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, 1969, the 1944 canvas entitled Thunder Clouds Over Okanagan Lake, BC, in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, reproduced page 41
Joyce Zemans, Jock Macdonald: The Inner Landscape: A Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981, page 108

EXHIBITED
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Jock Macdonald: Retrospective Exhibition, September 19 - October 12, 1969, the 1944 canvas entitled Thunder Clouds Over Okanagan Lake, BC, catalogue #8

During his time teaching and painting in British Columbia from 1926 to 1947, Jock Macdonald produced a fine body of work in landscape. He painted in Lytton, Garibaldi, Nootka on Vancouver Island and the Rockies, before spending the summer of 1944 in the Okanagan Valley. Macdonald opened up to the Okanagan’s unique sun-drenched atmosphere, its Mediterranean climate and open, undulating hilly landscape. His views across valleys and lakes were composed of layered planes of land and water, with cloud formations rising over all. In this striking painting, a summer storm moving in the distance creates an impressively moody sky, its drama so interesting that Macdonald subsequently chose to paint a large canvas of this image, which is in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. In 1944 the Vancouver Art Gallery organized a one-man exhibition of Macdonald’s Okanagan paintings, moving a reviewer in the Daily Province to note enthusiastically, “For the first time one of our leading artists has undertaken to depict this particular region of British Columbia.”

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