BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
Bursill received his art training in London, according to an exhibition review, but further research is necessary. He exhibited in the First Annual exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in 1909. He was wounded in World War One, but returned to Vancouver where he continued his writing and art career.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
1909 April 20 - 28 | BCSFA First Annual Exhibition | Come Fill The Cup (Omar Khayyam) |
The Pied Piper | ||
The King's Jester | ||
Ralph Waldo Emerson (relief) | ||
Fisherman And The Genie | ||
Boat House, North Vancouver | ||
By The Mill | ||
An Old Timer, Vancouver | ||
The Players | ||
Nora | ||
1909 November | BCSFA Second Exhibition | Head of Hindu |
Illustration of "Maud Muller" | ||
Scene from "As You Like It", Touchstone and Andrey | ||
Prospero & Caliban, "The Tempest" | ||
Fall (magazine cover) | ||
1910 May | BCSFA Third Exhibition | Indian Mission, N. Vancouver |
Burnaby Lake | ||
Design for Fan | ||
Design for Diamond Adv. | ||
Vancouver, B.C., Poster | ||
1911 November | BCSFA Fall Exhibition | ? |
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
A CENTURY OF SCULPTURE (refer to SSBC98)
"Noel Bursill's training as an artist was obtained in London. His black
and white work is excellent, and he has a peculiarly good sense of color, which,
when displayed in an imaginative subject, is particularly pleasing."
From "Art in British Columbia" by
Bernard McEvoy
Opportunities Magazine, 1910
"This year's exhibitors were ... Noel Bursell ... "
From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911
"He has fortunately been able to save his eyesight, but was severely wounded
in the face, chin and throat ... "
From "Artists in Trenches"
Vancouver Daily World, July 28 1917
"Though but a small organization, numerically considered, the B.C. Society of
Fine Arts has had the honor of contributing its quota of members to engage
in the determined and now successful fight for freedom and civilization. It
may be said that all those belonging to this artistic fraternity have helped
in various ways, but those marked out for special recognition are:
NOEL BURSILL, son of the Editor of this book and a valued member in the early
days of the Society, when his pictures, full of imagination and color, roused
great interest at the exhibitors. Noel Bursill, who has been wounded and earned
his Gold Stripe, contributes drawings to this book."
From Honor Roll - B.C. Society of Fine Arts
The Gold Stripe, Volume One, Christmas 1918