BC ARTISTS: WHAT'S NEW

2024 WHAT'S NEW

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The first BC Artists document 1998 (click for more info)

26 YEARS ... 20,700 ARTISTS ... 4,500 WEB PAGES
2,000 BIOGRAPHIES ... 20,000 ARTWORKS
( ... plus a few more ... )

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BC ARTISTS recently passed a couple of numerical milestones: enough exhibition catalogues and reviews have been added to list over 20,000 individual artworks that were exhibited between 1890 and 1958. Adding the artworks also caused the creation of a number of new artist "mini" biographies, which now include over 2,000 artists.

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I decided to establish a way for people to donate to the BC Artists project. Without being able to offer a tax receipt for donations, I thought that offering a limited edition print as a thank-you gift would be an appropriate way to express gratitude. Please see SUPPORT for details.

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A number of years ago I came across a very interesting correspondence file in the Vancouver Art Gallery Archives - it was between A.S. Grigsby and Emily Carr, arranging an exhibition of watercolours for April 1945. It included three original letters from Carr to Grigsby, the last mailed just a few weeks before her death. Please see Emily Carr - the show she never gave.

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Another victory for research! An acquaintance offered me a small 1936 publication titled A Whimsical Vancouverite by artist Margaret (Peggy) Harvey. I had her listed in BC Artists because she had showed one artwork titled Head of an Old Indian in the B.C. Artists 1932 1st Annual exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. No other information beyond her name. After a couple of days of online research, her biography has been substantially enlarged to include a number of images including a portrait, syndicated cartoons and radio programs, educational information, vital statistics, information on residences, directory listings, and seven new newspaper clippings.

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Image and text files continue to be added to the source information for BC Artists. As of January 28 2024 there are 250 individual artist directories containing 1,775 files, total 6.81 gigabytes of information.

Eight images added to information on 555 Hamilton Street, showing signage and public art installations. The building has housed art galleries since at least 1964.

The 1927 Greater Vancouver Social & Club Register listed over 500 organizations in Vancouver, and provides an interesting way of looking at the social life at that time.

The following have been updated with an index to businesses, and additional information:
     Art and framing stores of Vancouver
     Engravers and printers of Vancouver
     Photographers of Vancouver

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I spent a while listing post-1950 exhibitions and artworks from 1950 to 1968 (BC Society of Artists, VAG BC Artists) in artist biography files, but without first transcribing the entire catalogues. This added 565 artworks to 27 artist biographies. Don Jarvis had the most with 54 exhibited artworks added to his biography from 28 exhibitions, exactly tripling the list of his exhibited work.

After that, I finally started to transcribe the remaining BC Society of Artists annual exhibition catalogues from 1951 to 1967, and have now completed 9 up to 1958. Although some of the artworks were already listed as per the paragraph above, this has added another 713 artworks as well as links to and from all biographies, and 45 new artist biographies have been created.

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Note re new artist biographies: New biography files are simply collections of information about artists that the editor has found. They are created when an exhibition catalogue or other reference containing an artist's work is transcribed. The files are not an attempt to record the artist's entire life and work. They are intended to be easily updated with additional information. Something is better than nothing. Sauve qui peut!

	NEW ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
	Adaskin, Gordon Alexander, Patricia Anderson, J. (Mrs.) Anderson, K.W. (Mrs.) Andre, Francoise Bailey (Mr.) Baily, Alice (Miss) Baron, Edith (Mrs.) Bastin, May (Miss) Beckingsale, Amy (Mrs.) Beldon, Jessie (Miss) Bisset (Mrs.) Blakstad, Rolph Boothe, Franklin H. Bowhay, L.R. (Miss) Brooks, Elizabeth (Miss) Buck, Dorothy A. (Miss) Burnett, E. (Mr.) Burt, Muriel Carlson, Sally (Miss) Carter, Nance (Miss) Caruso, Gordon Christie, Rita (Miss) Clothier, Robert Collie, Patricia Connery, Sam Cox, F. (Miss) Davidson, Robert Denbigh, David Dick, T. (Mrs.) Dietrich, Mildred (Miss) Downie, Donald (Mrs.) Edgar, Anabelle (Miss) Faminow, Frances Farr, Patricia (Miss) Firth, Earl C. Fitzgerald (Mr.) Fonda, Ethel (Miss) Gilbert, Herb Golman, Sylvia Gordon, G.B. (Mrs.) Grady, K. (Miss) Gray, Moyra (Miss) Grimes (Mrs.) L.M.H. Hamilton, Kathleen Hartley, Clara (Mrs.) Hearn, Jock Hope, E. (Miss) Hudson (Miss) Hume, Jean Hume, Robert Hunt, Blake Jarvie, Carroll Jessiman, Mary (Miss) Jones, C.B. (Mrs.) Kayall, J.J. (Mrs.) Kelly, Ronald Kells (Mrs.) Killop (Mrs.) Kinman, Marjorie (Miss) Kirkpatrick, R. (Miss)	Koochin, William (Bill) Kovach, Rudy Kuthan, Georges Law, Charles Anthony Lawson, L. (Miss) Lewis, Glenn MacDonald, Belinda Maisonville, O. (Mr.) Maloney (Mr.) Maltby, E.N. (Miss) Mariacher (Mrs.) Mayrs, Frank Mayrs, William (Bill) McCreery, A. (Mrs.) McIntosh, Ian McKenna (Mrs.) McKenzie (Mrs.) McKiernan (Mrs.) McLean, Olga (Miss) Meredith (Mr.) Milinkovich, Egon Miller, Elizabeth (Miss) Naw, F. (Mrs.) Nickerson, Kathleen (Miss) Patterson, Nancy Peake, D.W. (Mr.) Pearce, W. (Mr.) Pennicuick, Albert E. Perry, Frank Pierce, W.J. (Mr.) Pollok, M. (Miss) Porter, Sheo Reddie, T. Richardson, James Richardson, James (Mrs.) Robertson, Midge Rose, Willow (Miss) Ross, W. (Miss) Russell, A. (Miss) Shaw, G. (Mrs.) Sheppard, Peg Shilleto, David Siebner, Herbert Smith, D. (Miss) Smith, Laurie Sorge, Walter Spears, Heather Steele, Robert Stegeman, Charles Stephen, A.M. (Mrs.) Stiles, Douglas Thompson, Eileen (Miss) Thomson, Medora Jessie Thrupp, Muriel (Miss) Uden, Albert Walker, A. (Mrs.) Wallbridge, Henry West, William (Bill) Wilkinson, John Williamson (Mr.) Wilson, Paul Zach, Jan

	NEW PRE-1950 SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1928	John Innes The Epic of Western Canada (20 artworks)
1939	Emily Sartain Exhibition (32 artworks)
1945	Kathleen Daly Exhibition (23 artworks)
1948	Paul Wong Exhibition (10 artworks)

	NEW PRE-1950 GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1923	Sketch Club Semi-Annual Exhibition (29 artworks)
1924	Sketch Club Monthly Exhibition (23 artworks)
1924	Sketch Club Midsummer Exhibit (30 artworks)
1924	Sketch Club September Exhibit (19 artworks)
1924	Sketch Club October Exhibit (87 artworks)
1924	Sketch Club Semi-Annual Exhibit (31 artworks)
1931	Sketch Club PNE Exhibit (25 artworks)

	NEW POST-1950 GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1951	BCSA 41st Annual Exhibition (99 artworks)
1951	BCSA Summer Exhibition (118 artworks)
1952	BCSA 42nd Annual Exhibition (90 artworks)
1953	BCSA 43rd Annual Exhibition (108 artworks)
1954	BCSA 44th Annual Exhibition (109 artworks)
1955	BCSA 45th Annual Exhibition (101 artworks)
1956	BCSA 46th Annual Exhibition (98 artworks)
1957	BCSA 47th Annual Exhibition (108 artworks)
1958	BCSA 48th Annual Exhibition (96 artworks)
2011	Mayworks 2011
2012	Mayworks 2012
2013	Mayworks 2013
2024	Art in the City
2024	Eastside Culture Crawl
2024	SSBC 50th Anniversary Exhibition

	NEW PRE-1950 REFERENCES
1927	Greater Vancouver Social & Club Register - list of groups

	NEW POST-1950 REFERENCES
2000	Encyclopedia of British Columbia
2023	Potters Guild of BC Members List

	NEW CLIPPINGS
1889	List of Members
1889	Art Exhibition
1890	Vancouver Art Association
1890	Our British Columbia Letter
1907	Announcement
1908	Society of Fine Arts - British Columbia Artists Organize and Elect Officers
1909	Society of Fine Arts - Body Formed With Headquarters in Vancouver
1911	Our Germ Of Art
1914	John Kyle, Hon. A.R.C.A.
1917	B.C. Society of Fine Arts - An Appreciation
1918	Sketch Club Display
1918	Miss Neilson Terry is Guest of Sketch Club
1919	Is Clever Water Colorist
1919	Sketch Club Opens Winter Season's Work
1920	Sketch Club Has Resumed Exhibitions
1920	Art Exhibits Fewer But Maintain Standard
1920	Annual Exhibit by Sketch Club
1921	Annual Carnival at Savary Island Splendid Success
1921	Original Work Exhibited at the Sketch Club
1921	Many View Sketch Club Exhibit and Much Work Shown
1922	Sketch Club Tea Enjoyable Event; Good Work Shown
1923	Vancouver Sketch Club
1923	Semi-Annual Exhibit by the Vancouver Sketch Club
1924	Sketch Club Exhibit Held
1924	Impressions of the Sketch Club
1924	Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Art
1924	The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club
1924	September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club
1924	Educational Notes
1925	Vancouver Sketch Club Semi-Annual Exhibition
1925	Private View Precedes Sketch Club Exhibition
1926	Alice M. Winlow
1927	By The Way In Art
1927	The B.C. Art League
1929	Vagabonds Club Holds Meeting
1929	John Innes letter about exhibition
1931	New Epoch Is Seen In Canadian Art
1932	Sketch Club Holds Exhibition of Work at West Vancouver
1932	The Note Book
1933	'West End' Show Of Art Works
1933	Art Students Hold Display of Summer Work
1942	Ski Heil: Clever People
1950	Watercolors Highlight of Art Showing
1951	This Column
1954	At YWCA - Sketch Club Presents Good Show