BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Katherine (Kay, Katherina) Sybil Ryan Brydone-Jack
(Mrs. W.D. Brydone-Jack)

December 1 1895 - November 29 1945

B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Member 1920-1929)
B.C. Society of Fine Arts/B.C. Society of Artists: Exhibitor's Timeline
B.C. Art League
British Columbia Artist (B.C.A., 1921)
The Palette and Chisel Club (Member)
Quilchena Golf Club (Member 1927)
Valcartier Chapter I.O.D.E. (Member 1927)
Women's Canadian Club (Member 1927)


Brydone-Jack was born in Sackville, New Brunswick. She was listed as an Active Member in the 1925 B.C. Art League List of Members, living at 4237 Angus Avenue.

She exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1927. She was listed as a member of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in exhibition catalogues from 1924 through to 1929.


1927 memberships

She was later a member of The Palette and Chisel Club, and exhibited with the group in 1926 and 1928 at the B.C. Art Gallery, then at 939 Granville Street.

Afterwards she lived in Saskatchewan and Montreal, where she died in 1945.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1919 Sept. 6 - ? Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition Portrait of a Lady
The Hindu
1920 September 18 - 25 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition Portrait
Portrait Sketch
Portrait Sketch
J.H. Ingram, Esq.
Mount Grizzly, Glacier, B.C.
1921 Sept. 19 - 24 BCSFA   13th Annual Exhibition Mount Sir Donald
1924 May 3 - 17 BCSFA   16th Annual Exhibition Ross Peak Glacier
The Asulkan Glacier
Dorothy
1926 May 8 - 15 BCSFA   18th Annual Exhibition Calendulas
Billy
1926 Nov. 6 - 20 Palette and Chisel Club   First Exhibition (flowers)
(flowers)
(flowers)
Reflections
1927 June 10 - 25 BCSFA   19th Annual Exhibition Japanese Girl
1928 Feb 18 - Mar 18 Palette and Chisel Club   Exhibition Muriel
Patricia
John
Barbara

References

Greater Vancouver Social and Club Register (1927)

THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)

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

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

Clippings

" ... "Portrait of a Lady," and "The Hindu" by Mrs. H.D. Brydone-Jack ... "
      From "Sketch Club Opens Winter Season's Work"
      Vancouver Daily Province, September 8 1919

"Every visitor will have some good words to say of the portraits of Mrs. Brydone-Jack, which show vigor and good sound workmanship. This woman's work in that difficult medium, pastel, is strong and constructive."
      From "Freshness and Vitality in Exhibition of Vancouver Sketch Club"
      Western Woman's Weekly, June 5 1920

"A very striking picture is "The Asulkan Glacier" of K.S. Brydone-Jack. At first glance the glacier appears to derive its frigidity rather from the many colored ices of the confectioner than from any effort of nature. A prolonged examination might modify this impression. In any case the work is interesting as an experiment."
      From "Exhibition of B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Second Notice)"
      Vancouver Province, May 9 1924

"Mrs. Kay Brydone-Jack shows three pictures of flowers which maintain the argument that this kind of work may be done in oil as well as in water-color, and her picture entitled "Reflections" is startlingly true and vivid." (continues)
     From Palette and Chisel Club by Diogenes
     Vancouver Province November 6 1926

"The Society membership has been constantly strengthened in the succeeding years by the addition of other members, which included in the early years ... Mrs. Brydone Jack ... "
      From "B.C. Society of Artists - A History" by J.D. Parker
      B.C. Society of Fine Arts 40th Annual Exhibition Catalogue, 1950

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