Robert Fones

Jonah

1974
Category: 
Later Canadian Art
This simple, spare form whimsically invites free association. Is it the whale that swallowed the biblical Jonah, punished by God for insubordination and reborn three days later when the whale spat him onto shore? Or is it the plug removed from a knothole in a piece of plywood, the peering eye behind the hole . . . ?
Artist
Title
Jonah
Date
1974
Medium
Painting
Materials
waxed plywood with pine edging
Dimensions
122.7 x 244.3 x 4 cm with integral frame
Nationality
Canadian
Credit line
Purchased 1974
Accession number
18134