Lot 104: James Williamson Galloway (Jock) Macdonald 1897 -

James Williamson Galloway (Jock) Macdonald 1897 - 1960 Canadian oil on canvas board Kalamalka Lake (Looking South), Okanagan, BC 12 x 14 1/2 inches 30.5 x 36.8 centimeters signed and dated 1945 and on verso signed, titled, dated and inscribed ""44779"" Literature:Joyce Zemans, Jock Macdonald, The Inner Landscape / A Retrospective Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981, page 107 Provenance:Acquired directly from the Artist By descent to the present Private Collection, Vancouver In the Art Gallery of Ontario's retrospective exhibition catalogue, Joyce Zemans writes of Jock Macdonald's Interior works: "The Okanagan seems to have elicited a new vision, and the grandeur of the Rockies and of Garibaldi gave way to softer forms. The darkening clouds of a summer storm or the brilliant light of the summer sun along with a rich, brightly coloured palette create vibrant colour harmonies to unify these paintings." This fine Okanagan panorama is a nostalgic reminder of a time when Interior lakes like Kalamalka were only sparsely populated. The successive layers of benchlands and steep hills plunging into the lake tapering off to shadowy blue mountains in the distance are a pure and tranquil expression of the beauty of this Mediterranean-like area of British Columbia's Interior region. In 1944, Macdonald's Okanagan paintings were featured in a one-man exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which was critically well-received. The National Gallery of Canada has one of Macdonald's Okanagan canvases among the group of his works in its collection, dated 1944 - 1945 and entitled Thunder Clouds Over Okanagan Lake.