| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
He returned to Vancouver, and studied at the Vancouver School of Art, graduating with honours in 1948. He followed this with teacher training at the Provincial Normal School in Vancouver, graduating with honours in 1949. He taught art for the Vancouver School Board for ten years, and instructed evening classes at the Vancouver School of Art from 1949 - 1955.
He exhibited in the 1945 British Columbia At Work exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He exhibited in the B.C. Artists annual exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery for a number of years. His 1947 entry form stated that he was living in Vancouver.
He submitted four conte drawings to the 1949 B.C. Graphic exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, one of them "did not come in" and two were selected for the exhibition.
He exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts from 1949 to 1952, 1954 to 1958, 1960, and 1967.
He won an Emily Carr Scholarship in 1953, and spent a year studying in London, England.
He exhibited in the Seattle Art Museum's annual Northwest Artists exhibitions in 1959 and 1960.
He won a Koerner Foundation grant in 1962.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1945 Nov. 13 - Dec. 2 | Labour Arts Guild B.C. At Work | Fishing Boats, False Creek |
| B.C. Packers Wharf | ||
| 1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 | VAG B.C. Artists 16th Annual | Back Lane |
| 1948 July 27 - Aug. 15 | VAG Stanley Park in Pictures | Boat Float |
| 1948 Sept. 18 - Oct. 10 | VAG B.C. Artists 17th Annual | Granville Island |
| 1948 Nov. 9 - 28 | Coast Group B.C. Painters | Cambie Viaduct |
| Downtown | ||
| The White Building | ||
| The Older Town | ||
| 1949 May 3 - 22 | BCSFA 39th Annual | Rainy Day |
| False Creek | ||
| 1949 Oct. 8 - 30 | VAG B.C. Artists 18th Annual | The City |
| 1949 Nov. 22 - Dec. 11 | VAG First B.C. Graphic | False Creek (rejected) |
| Bridge | ||
| City | ||
| Buildings (did not come in) | ||
| 1950 April 25 - May 14 | BCSA 40th Annual | Delta |
| 1950 June 20 - July 9 | VAG First Quarterly Group Exhibition | Carroll & Pender, Night |
| False Creek | ||
| Figure and Institutions | ||
| Portrait of D.J. | ||
| Red Buildings | ||
| River Sketch #1 | ||
| River Sketch #2 | ||
| Rainy Day | ||
| 1950 Nov. 28 - Dec. 17 | VAG B.C. Artists 19th Annual | Portrait in the City |
| Figures Before Important Building | ||
| 1951 April 24 - May 13 | VAG BCSA 41st Annual | Day in the City |
| Man With A Cap | ||
| 1951 Summer | Park Royal BCSA Summer Exhibition | Delta |
| Red and Black Buildings | ||
| Gayer City | ||
| 1951 Nov. 27 - Dec. 16 | VAG B.C. Artists 20th Annual | City At Evening |
| Seated Figure | ||
| 1952 April 1 - 20 | VAG BCSA 42nd Annual | Cityscape With Mountains |
| 1952 Oct. 21 - Nov. 16 | VAG B.C. Artists 21st Annual | River Mouth |
| Sunset | ||
| 1954 May 25 - June 13 | VAG BCSA 44th Annual | Station Platform |
| 1955 April 26 - May 15 | VAG BCSA 45th Annual | Four Workmen |
| Children on Stairway | ||
| 1955 Sept. 20 - Oct. 9 | VAG B.C. Artists 24th Annual | Street Market, Morning |
| 1956 Feb. 28 - Mar. 18 | VAG BCSA 46th Annual | Afternoon |
| 1956 Oct. 23 - Nov. 11 | VAG B.C. Artists 25th Annual | Figures and Sunshades |
| 1957 March 5 - 24 | VAG BCSA 47th Annual | Rendezvous |
| 1957 Oct. 23 - Nov. 11 | VAG B.C. Artists 26th Annual | Figures and Rain |
| 1958 Feb. 4 - 22 | UBC BCSA 48th Annual | Figures and Windows |
| Street Figures | ||
| 1958 Oct. 22 - Nov. 16 | VAG B.C. Artists 27th Annual | Eaton's Main Floor |
| 1959 | VAG B.C. Artists 28th Annual | Group Returning |
| 1960 May 22 - June 12 | VAG BCSA 50th Annual | Back Lane |
| 1960 Oct. 12 - 30 | VAG B.C. Artists 29th Annual | Figures in Suburb |
| Yellow Sweater | ||
| 1961 Oct. 11 - 29 | VAG B.C. Artists 30th Annual | Figures and Sign |
| 1964 Jan. 1 - 31 | VAG B.C. Artists 33rd Annual | The Supplicant |
| Icarus | ||
| 1967 May 3 - 28 | VAG BCSA 57th Annual | Figures Downtown |
| Workmen |
3rd BC GRAPHIC & CANADIAN SOCIETY OF GRAPHIC ART (refer to BCG57)
100 YEARS OF B.C. ART (refer to VAG58)
B.C. PAINTINGS BURNABY 58 (refer to BAG58)
B.C. ARTISTS 27th ANNUAL (refer to BCA58)
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM - NORTHWEST ARTISTS EXHIBITIONS 1914 - 1975
Refer to NWA BC artists by exhibition
Refer to NWAA BC artists alphabetically
SPRING EXHIBITION - FCA - BC REGION (refer to FCA64)
CENTENNIAL SCULPTURE '67 (refer to FCA67)
B.C. ARTISTS' TRIBUTE TO COLIN GRAHAM (refer to AGGV74)
VANCOUVER: ART & ARTISTS 1931 - 1983 (refer to VAG83)
CREATIVE CANADA - Volumes One & Two (refer to CC71)
Includes one and a half full columns of information about Macdonald
VISUAL ARTS BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to VABC77)
BRITISH COLUMBIA ART COLLECTION 1974-80 (refer to BCAC80)
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - SPRING EXHIBITIONS 1880 - 1970 (refer to MM88)
A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS (refer to M)
Colin S. Macdonald, Canadian Paperbacks. ISBN 0-919554-15-6
A CENTURY OF SCULPTURE (refer to SSBC98)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
6 references cited for Macdonald, including CC1, and M listed above.
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY - B.C. ARTISTS FILES (refer to VPL)