BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Adeline Baxter

March 18 1881 - April 4 1959

Island Arts and Crafts Society
B.C. Society of Fine Arts


Adeline Baxter was born in Scotland, and came to Canada around the age of 10. She was living in Winnipeg in 1914. She came to BC c1929, and lived in Oak Bay in Victoria.

She exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society from 1929 until 1941.

She exhibited her work in the 1930 Spring Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, and also had work at the Vancouver Exhibition that year, representing the Island Arts and Crafts Society.

She exhibited a small painting at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1930.

Baxter died in Victoria in 1959 at the age of 78. She was a spinster, her occupation was noted as "Retired School Teacher" at which she had worked for "life" and from which she was retired for 13 years.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1914 June - August Winnipeg Museum of Fine Arts Charcoal Study from Life
1929 Oct. 22 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg 20th Ann. Cathedral Mountain
Portrait
A Summer Day
Assisi, Italy
On the Trail
Campers
Portrait Sketch
Margaret, Portrait Sketch
Portrait Sketch
Lake Louise
1930 May 31 - June 14 BCSFA   Spring Exhibition A Quiet Hour
Portrait D.D. Drummond
1930 Aug. 6 - 16 VanExh   Oil Paintings & Water-colours Sweet Sixteen
1930 Aug. 22 - Sept. 6 CNE   Small Pictures A Quiet Hour
1930 Oct. 28 - Nov. 8 IACS Board of Trade Bldg 21st Ann. Portrait, Late D.D. Gellately
Lake Louise
Marooned
From Gonzales Heights
Spring in Victoria
Portrait Sketch, "Pencil"
The Chorister
Portrait Sketch, Charcoal
Seen from Metchosin
Garden Scene
1933 Mar. 3 - 15 VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition Arabelle
Rosalina
1933 Oct. 24 - Nov. 4 IACS Belmont House 24th Ann. Portrait Sketch
Portrait Sketch
Portrait Sketch
Portrait Sketch
Portrait Sketch
1935 Nov. 4 - 9 IACS Belmont House 26th Ann. A Russian Maid
Youth
Portrait of J.A. Kennedy, Esq.
1936 Oct. 26 - 31 IACS Coast Hall 27th Ann. The House Boy
Harbingers of Spring
La Senorita
Past President, Arts & Crafts Society
A Gent from Dixie
1937 Oct. 20 - 27 IACS Belmont House 28th Ann. Bird Bath
In Meditative Mood
Old Black Joe
1938 Oct. 20 - 29 IACS Belmont House 29th Ann. Dusky Beauty
Daughter of the East
Portrait of a Gentleman
A Study in Brown
Night Vigil
Scarlet Glory
1939 Mar. 14 - 26 VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition Night Vigil
A Gentleman from Dixie
1940 April 8 - 13 IACS Crystal Garden 30th Ann. Father India
Madame Butterfly
Cactus
Portrait
The Sage
1941 April 28 - May 3 IACS Crystal Garden 31st Ann. Snapshot Portrait

References

ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS - EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979 (refer to RCA81)

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)

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