BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
These postcards were issued under the title
British Columbia Artist Series. None of the cards in the series has
a publication date, although information printed on some of them
gives information on exhibitions in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The original postcards are 3.25" high by 5.5" wide. Artists represented in the series include Emily Carr, Nan Lawson Cheney, Bess Harris, Lawren Harris, Ronald Jackson, J.W.G. Macdonald, Marion Morham, J. Delisle Parker, Paul Rand, Charles H. Scott, Mildred Valley Thornton, and W.P. Weston.
The postcards are mentioned in the Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin,
Vol. 12, No. 1, September 1944: The Editor has a collection of 10 of these cards, and images of the Nan Lawson Cheney and Lawren Harris cards were provided by a collector. Additional artworks may have been published, or additional artists included in the series. It took the Editor until 2013 to find the information noted above in the art gallery bulletin (by accident), until then no-one could say who published the cards. Refer also to postcard to Grigsby for an example of Emily Carr using one of her own postcards for correspondence.
|
This image courtesy Neil Whaley collection
This image courtesy Neil Whaley collection