BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Henry Bloomfield & Sons

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Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association


According to Harper, Henry Bloomfield emigrated from England to Canada c1887, moving first to Calgary, and then to New Westminster in 1889. He was a painter and engraver, and upon arrival on the west coast founded the firm of Henry Bloomfield and Sons by 1892. He did work in stained glass, and painted in watercolour.

He was the father of James Blomfield and Edgar Bloomfield.

Henry Bloomfield & Sons showed their artwork in the first and second annual exhibitions of the Vancouver Arts and Crafts Association in 1900 and 1901.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1900 Sept. 25-27 VACA First Annual Exhibition Exhibit of Stained Glass

References

EARLY PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS IN CANADA (refer to H70)

RAINBOWS IN OUR WALLS - Art and Stained Glass in Vancouver 1890 - 1940
      1980 exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Centennial Museum, Robert D. Watt
      Exhibition December 9 1978 - March 18 1979. ISBN 0-919253-02-4 (paper)
      Overview of stained glass making, local history of stained glass installation
      Biographies of James Blomfield, Charles Bloomfield, Bloomfield and Sons, F.L. Tait, others
      Illustrated in colour and black and white; list of exhibits and illustrations

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      One reference to Bloomfield: Harper per above.

Clippings

"Messrs. Henry Bloomfield & Sons had a fine exhibit of leaded glass and painted glass in which native flora appear frequently as the decorative motif, a step quite in the right direction. Some of the work, all of which is designed and executed entirely by members of the firm, was genuine leaded glass, that is to say, it was wholly dependent upon the utilizing of the lead lines for its drawing and to stained glass for its color, in contradiction to painted glass, which is a picture painted upon a transparent ground."
       From "British Columbia Letters, No. IV"
       The Canadian Architect and Builder 1900

"Messrs. Henry Bloomfield & Sons were represented by a couple of stained glass windows, one, of which the motif is gold fish and kelp, being as fine a piece of color and drawing in lead and glass as we have seen for a long time."
       From "British Columbia Letters, No. VII"
       The Canadian Architect and Builder 1901


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