01 Work, The art of War, Jack Leonard Shadbolt's Behind the Wire, with Footnotes

Jack Leonard Shadbolt, BCSFA CGP CSPWC OC RCA, 1909 - 1998

Behind the Wire, c. 1947

Ink and watercolour on paper

Height 57.2 cm, Width 79.0 cm

Canadian War Museum

The impact of war on artists can be profound. Terrible sights and awful experiences are transformed into works of art that honour acts of courage and move the soul, or they record immense cruelty in chilling images of man's inhumanity to man.

In February 1945, war artist Jack Shadbolt travelled to London, England, to assist with administration duties at Canadian Military Headquarters in connection with the war artists’ program. While there, Shadbolt was responsible for sorting and cataloguing photographs taken at the Nazi concentration camps of Belsen and Buchenwald. The effect of this exposure to the photographs emerged in a series of paintings beginning in 1946 after his return to Canada. More on this painting

Jack Leonard Shadbolt, CM OBC (February 4, 1909 – November 22, 1998) was a Canadian painter.

Born in Shoeburyness, England, Shadbolt came to Canada with his parents in April 1911. He was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. He studied at the Art Students' League in New York City (1948) and in London (1937) and Paris (1938). From 1928 to 1937, he taught in high schools in Duncan, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia. Starting in 1938, he taught and studied with Frederick Varley at the Vancouver School of Art.

He married Doris Meisel in 1945 and the couple moved to Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, in 1950. More on Jack Shadbolt

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