Max Singleton Maynard
Untitled, 1931
charcoal, graphite
on paper on board
74.0 x 59.0 cm
BG1460

Jack Shadbolt met the dashing, self-styled aesthetic, Max Maynard, when both men were in their late teens. Together, they imagined how to create modern art in B.C. that would accomplish for the coast, what the Group of Seven had for Northern Ontario.

Then, in 1937, they met Emily Carr and saw she had already done what they aspired to do. This forest drawing of a kind of mystic, organic castle/stump/phallus shows the immense influence Carr had on the young artists.