Leading exports in the field of Canadian art history illuminate the life and work of influential artist, Jock Macdonald.

Featuring his iconic canvases as well as never-before-seen colour reproductions of the artist's work, this lavishly illustrated volume traces the dramatic transformations that occurred throughout Macdonald's artistic development- from his early painting career in Vancouver to his move towards abstraction in the thirties, his extraordinary automatics of the forties and his later paintings produced as part of the Toronto-based collective of modernist artists, Painters Eleven.