Name/Title
Fishing Boat, Discovery Passage, B.C.Entry/Object ID
2001.01.86Description
Painting
This image depicts Discovery Passage, an ocean strait that forms part of the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and Quadra Island in the Discovery Islands of B.C. The lighting is dramatic and highlights the fishing vessel at the centre of the painting. It is a spare image with a calm ocean, dark-coloured islands behind which are bright blue islands and a dramatic sky.Artwork Details
Medium
Oil on boardSubject Place
Region
Cascades and PlateauContinent
North AmericaContext
Discovery Passage links Johnstone Strait to the north with the Strait of Georgia to the south. The passage meets Johnstone Strait near Rock Bay Marine Provincial Park on Vancouver Island and the west coast of Sonora Island. The eastern shore of Discovery Passage is formed by Quadra Island extending down to the southern end of the passage at Campbell River, where it connects with the Strait of Georgia.
Discovery Passage, 25 km long and averaging 2 km in width, is an important coastal shipping route that forms part of the Inside Passage a larger coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the Pacific Northwest coast. The route extends from southeastern Alaska through western B.C. to northwestern Washington state. The Passage was named in 1847 by Captain Henry Kellett of the British Royal Navy after Captain George Vancouver’s ship, the HMS Discovery, which sailed through this passage during Vancouver’s circumnavigation of Vancouver Island in 1792. Quadra Island was named after Don Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, a Spanish Naval Officer and close friend of Captain Vancouver.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Ronald Threlkeld Jackson (1902-1992)Role
PainterDate made
n.d.Time Period
20th CenturyNotes
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hamiota, Manitoba, Ronald Threlkeld Jackson is well known for his British Columbia coastal views that often include a small fishing vessel. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art, London where he won the School’s Duveen Award, he did further studies at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He received government commissions from the United Kingdom, Canada and B.C. Jackson exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts and at the annual B.C. Artists exhibitions in 1934, and from 1936 until 1943, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The artist lived most of his life in Vancouver and was a member of the International Oceanographic Foundation, the Federation of Canadian Artists, the British Columbia Society of Artists, and a founding member of the Canadian Society of Marine Artists.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
SignatureLocation
Signed lower right: RONALD JACKSONDimensions
Dimension Description
Visible imageHeight
24.1 cmWidth
58.4 cmAcquisition
Acquisition Method
Legacy collection - detail unknownRelationships
Related Entries
Notes
By Ronald Threlkeld Jackson:
2001.01.65 Forest Landscape
2001.01.86 Fishing Boat, Discovery Passage, B.C.
