Available works:
Ronald T. Jackson - "Tugboat, BC Coast Near Alaska"
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Ronald Threlkeld Jackson, BCSA, CSMA, IOF, 1902 - 1992
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Born in1902 in Hamiota, Manitoba, Ronald Jackson lived most of his life in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is well known for his marine paintings particularly boats travelling through the islands off the West Coast of British Columbia, the Queen Charlotte Islands and Quatsino Sound. He painted in a semi-impressionistic style, which more often than not detailed a small fishing vessel. He was a graduate of the Slade School of London where he won the Slade School of Fine Art Duveen Award. He further studied at the Grand Chaumier, Paris and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He received Government commissions from the United Kingdom, the Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of British Columbia. He was a member of the International Oceanographic Foundation, the British Columbia Society of Artists, and a founding member of the Canadian Society of Marine Artists.
He exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in 1941, 1944, 1949, 1954 and 1956. He also exhibited at the annual B.C. Artists’ Exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1934 and from 1946 to 1943.
His works are in the collections of the Maltwood Museum (University of Victoria, B.C.), the Royal B.C. Museum (Victoria, B.C.), and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Alberta).
He exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in 1941, 1944, 1949, 1954 and 1956. He also exhibited at the annual B.C. Artists’ Exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1934 and from 1946 to 1943.
His works are in the collections of the Maltwood Museum (University of Victoria, B.C.), the Royal B.C. Museum (Victoria, B.C.), and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Alberta).