BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

William Calder (Bill)

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Vancouver School of Art (Diploma 1948)


William Calder exhibited in the 1947 B.C. Artists Summer Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and in the juried 1947 and 1948 B.C. Artists annual exhibitions.

He submitted four drawings to the 1949 B.C. Graphic exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, one of them was selected for the exhibition. He was living in Vancouver at the time.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1946 Aug. 13 - 25 VAG   Stanley Park in Pictures Beach Scene
The Bather
1946 Sept. 21 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 15th Annual Cigarette Girl
West Shore
1946 Oct. ? - ? FCA    40 Selections from 15th BCA West Shore
1947 May 9 - June 1 BCSFA   37th Annual Capilano Landscape
Marpole Tram
1947 July 8 - 27 VAG   B.C. Artists Summer Exhibition West Shore
Georgia Street at Dusk
1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 VAG   B.C. Artists 16th Annual Green Fields
Along the Fraser
1948 May 18 -June 6 BCSFA   38th Annual City Snow
1948 Sept. 18 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 17th Annual Country Bridge
Coast Bay
1949 July 12 - July 31 VAG   Stanley Park in Pictures Summer Morning
1949 Oct. 8 - 30 VAG   B.C. Artists 18th Annual Downtown Cafeteria
Two Fisherwives
1949 Nov. 22 - Dec. 11 VAG   First B.C. Graphic Seated Figure (rejected)
Nude (rejected)
Autumn Bathers
Forest Forms (rejected)

References

SOUVENIR CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITIONS OPENING THE NEW VANCOUVER ART GALLERY (refer to VAG51)

VANCOUVER SCHOOL OF ART - LIST OF GRADUATES & STUDENTS (refer to VSA)

Clippings

"Besides the prize winners there are a considerable number of artists contributing really inspired paintings to thie year's display. These include ... William Calder with an inspiring "View of the Bridge.""
      From "Stanley Park Paintings On Exhibition at Gallery" by Palette
      Vancouver Province, August 2 1947

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