Abstract painting featuring bold colors, primarily yellows, blues, and purples. The composition includes dynamic shapes and sweeping lines, with a prominent yellow silhouette intersecting various dark and light backgrounds. Splashes of red and white add contrast, creating an energetic and vibrant visual effect. The artist's signature and date appear in the lower right corner.

Jack Shadbolt, Yellow Span, 1991, acrylic on canvas. SFU Art Collection. Gift of the Doris Shadbolt Estate, 2006.

Victor Ballesteros
Abstract painting featuring bold colors, primarily yellows, blues, and purples. The composition includes dynamic shapes and sweeping lines, with a prominent yellow silhouette intersecting various dark and light backgrounds. Splashes of red and white add contrast, creating an energetic and vibrant visual effect. The artist's signature and date appear in the lower right corner.

Title

Yellow Span

Artist

Jack Shadbolt

Year

1991

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Collection

SFU Art Collection

Donor

Gift of the Doris Shadbolt Estate

Year Acquired

2006

Artists

Jack Shadbolt (1909-1998) is known for his vibrant, expressionistic paintings that draw from his own personal experience and from the social and political events that have shaped British Columbia and world history, such as the struggles of First Nations, the Second World War, and the environmental movement. A gifted teacher and longtime faculty member at The Vancouver School of Art (now Emily Carr University of Art + Design), he was tireless in his fight to establish a space for the visual arts in contemporary life, not just for himself but for younger generations of artists. The SFU Art Collection has significant holdings of Shadbolt’s work and has held the copyright for the estate of Jack and Doris Shadbolt since 2011. His work is represented in all major galleries across Canada as well as in numerous corporate and private collections. Shadbolt received the Order of Canada in 1972.