Art Association of Montreal
(now Montreal Museum of Fine Arts)
1860 - (1938-)
The Art Association of Montreal was founded in 1860, and produced an extensive
series of annual exhibitions. They included artists from outside of Montreal into
their exhibitions, including American artists and artists from across Canada. The
55th Spring Exhibition in 1938, for example, included paintings by the following
western artists:
Harry Hood
Beulah Jaenicke
W.P. Weston
W.J. Phillips
R.W. Major
Philip Surrey
Additional west coast artists who exhibited in Montreal included
Melita Aitken,
Jane Billaux,
Statira Frame,
Marguerite Marie Frechette,
T.W. Fripp,
Alice Gaudet,
Mary Riter Hamilton,
Langdon Kihn,
Gwendolen Kortwright Lamont,
Beatrice Lennie,
Fannie Ogden,
J. Delisle Parker,
Molly Privett,
Peter Sager,
Charles H. Scott,
Hilda J. Stewart,
Mildred Valley Thornton,
and Gerald Hall Tyler.
The compilation of information by Evelyn McMann titled
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
formerly Art Association of Montreal Spring Exhibitions 1880 - 1970 contains not
only complete listings of all works exhibited during that period
of time, but also includes a list of biographical sources, lists of members of the Juries, and a list of exhibitions. An excellent
source of information.
Exhibitions
| DATE |
EXHIBITION |
|
|
| 1938 March 17 - April 10 |
55th Spring Exhibition, Montreal |
References
PAINTING IN CANADA - A HISTORY by John Russell Harper
1966 First edition; 1977 2nd edition; ISBN 0-8020-2271-5 (hardcover)
Numerous short references to the group
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - SPRING EXHIBITIONS 1880 - 1970
(refer to MM88)
Clippings
"In the circumstances, it is high praise to say that the show as a whole is in quality
quite on a par with those staged every spring by the Montreal Art Association,
the main purpose of which was to afford amateurs and students the stimulus and gratification
of seeing their works publicly displayed in senior company."
From "BRITISH COLUMBIA ART - Significance of First "All British
Columbia Show" by Harold Mortimer Lamb
Saturday Night December 10 1932
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