BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Francis Batiste

December 6 1920 -

Island Arts & Crafts Society


Francis Batiste was born on the Inkameep Reserve in Oliver in 1920, and exhibited in Victoria in 1941 with the Island Arts & Crafts Society.

BATISTE, Francis (Indian name: Sis-hulak)
Inkameep Reserve, Oliver, British Columbia
     Painter; Printmaker (woodcut); Modeling (plaster of Paris) - Born Inkameep Reserve, Dec. 6, 1920. Pupil of Santa Fe Indian Sch., New Mexico. Awards: Silver star, Royal Drawing Society, 1937; 2 bronze stars, Royal Drawing Society, 1936-1938; 6 1st class honors, Royal Drawing Society, 1936-1939. Work: Freize, Union Library, Kelowna, B.C.; Paintings: League of Red Cross Societies, Paris, France. Exhibitor at Guildhall, London, Eng. 1936-1939; Cizek Studio, Vienna, 1937; Junior Red Cross Headquarters, Paris, 1937; Junior Red Cross Headquarters, Prague, 1938; National Gallery, Ottawa, 1937; Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, 1939; Glasgow Empire Fair.
WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART
(1941, Frank McCaffrey, Seattle)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK

References

WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART (refer to WWNA41)

Island Arts & Crafts Society - LIST OF EXHIBITORS

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

Clippings

"Sis-lu-lk, already acquiring a wide reputation, exhibits a number of remarkable horse studies. The show later on goes to the Provincial Museum in Victoria, by request of Director Dr. Clifford Carl."
       From "At The Art Gallery" by Palette
       Vancouver Province, April 16 1942


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