Happy birthday to West Coast artist #JockMacdonald (born 1897 🎂) who was a designer and landscape painter before his 1930s shift toward abstract art. This work “Formative Colour Activity” (1934) was one of his earliest semi-abstract pieces. (via @artcaninstitute)
#JockMacdonald, a trailblazer in Canadian art from the 1930s to 1960, became the first painter to exhibit abstract art in Vancouver. (via @artcaninstitute)
