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PROVENANCE
By descent to the present Private Collection, British Columbia

BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Marjorie M. Halprin, Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image, UBC Museum of Anthropology, 1986, page 26

Jack Shadbolt was introduced to Emily Carr in 1930 in Victoria, and was struck by her powerful paintings of Indian villages and totems. By the mid-1930s, Shadbolt was sketching native masks in Victoria’s BC Provincial Museum (now the Royal BC Museum), such as this remarkable watercolour of a compelling Raven with Human Face mask. The cracks from weathering in this marvellously detailed mask make its beauty all the more fragile and evocative. Shadbolt wrote of the importance of such images, “The Indian mode of expressing things from inside out, out of deep interior identification with the spirit of the image portrayed, gave me my inventive impetus as well as helping me to my personal mode of abstraction.” He would continue to integrate native imagery into his work throughout his career because, as he wrote, “Their imprint is on my mind. Whenever I look out on our wilderness I am haunted by evocations of their memory...they give my view of nature a deeper solemnity, a nostalgia for the oneness with a wild world - and a reproach to aspects of our pragmatic environment.”

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