Born in 1909, Jack Shadbolt is a member of the second generation of modernists in British Columbia. Taught and inspired by older artists such as Carr and Varley, this generation experienced the beginnings of the polemical differentiation and synthesis of positions that characterizes a healthy culture. At this time discussion of the purposes of art was loosely collected around two positions: a romantic, nationalist landscape art with reference to the Group of Seven and social realism.
