BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Donald Stewart Cameron

December 2 1866 -

Island Arts & Crafts Society
IACS LIST OF EXHIBITORS


Donald Stewart Cameron was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1866. He studied art at South Kensington, London, and at the Scottish Educational department. He emigrated to Victoria, where he was living in 1941.

He exhibited artwork with the Island Arts & Crafts Society from 1911 to 1936. Harper notes that he was a painter in oil, watercolour, and pastel, exhibiting in Victoria and Vancouver.

In 1932 Cameron was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists. He was noted as being a Victoria artist.

CAMERON, Donald Stewart
1442 Elford St., Victoria, B.C.
     Painter (oil; water color; pastel) - Born Aberdeen, Scotland, Dec. 2, 1866. Pupil of South Kensington Art Inst.; Scottish Educ. Dept. Exhibitor at Northern Art Society (Scotland); many time in Vancouver and Victoria.
WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART
(1941, Frank McCaffrey, Seattle)

B.C. Vital Statistics on-line does not list any confirmed information about Cameron as of December 2025.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1911 Oct. 5 - 7 IACS Alexandra Club   2nd Annual Lilac
Study of a Head
The Auld Brig of Balgowrie
Beyond the Bay
Approach of Evening
Early Spring
Cathedral Spires
Portrait
On the Dee
Evening
Harvest Time
Fruit
1912 Oct. 17 - 19 IACS Alexandra Club   3rd Annual Evening at the Lake
The Hillside
Still Waters
1915 Nov. 23 - 27 IACS Union Bank Building.   6th Annual The Harbor
Sunset and Evening Star
Fast Fades the Glimmering Landscape
1919 Oct. 23 - 29 IACS Belmont Building   10th Annual Huntley Castle, Scotland
An Approach to Victoria
The Start at Dawn
Evening in the Harbour
Near Gordon Head, Victoria
Huntley Castle
Huntley Castle
1920 Oct. 25 - 30 IACS Belmont Building   11th Annual My Son David
Donny
Hour Study
1921 Oct. 18 - 25 IACS Belmont Building   12th Annual Little Cordova
Cowichan Bay
Millstream
Away at the Break of Day
Harvest Time
Foul Bay
Esquimalt Harbor
Near Gordon Head
Self Portrait
Uplands
On the Don
On the Dee
Portrait
The Harbour Entrance
1922 Oct. 19 - 25 IACS Belmont Building   13th Annual Great Central Lake
1923 Oct. 23 - 30 IACS H.B.C. Building   14th Annual Mt. Hood
Approach to Victoria
From Dallas Road
The Breakwater, Victoria
Esquimalt Harbour
Great Central Lake
Sunset
Goldstream
1927 Oct. 25 - 31 IACS Belmont Building   18th Annual Approach of Evening
In Percley Den
Vendome Bay
1928 Oct. 23 - 31 IACS Belmont Building   19th Annual Broom, Beacon Hill Park
At Brentwood Bay
Evening Shadows
The Pool at Evening
Sooke Lake
1929 Oct. 22 - 31 IACS Belmont Building   20th Annual Ten Mile Point
Goldstream Flats
In Stadacona Park
1930 Oct. 28 - Nov. 8 IACS Board of Trade Building   21st Annual The Old Bridge
The Swns
The Pool
At Sooke
Mill Stream
At Dawn
At Foul Bay
Arbutus
1932 Oct. 11 - 22 IACS Belmont Building   23rd Annual Study of Chrysanthemums
Mill Stream
Early Morning, Cameron Lake
Afternoon
A Study in Blue
Portrait of a Man
Portrait in Grey
Entrance to Victoria Harbour
Mt. Douglas
The Old Bridge
Salt Spring Island
An Island Lake
1934 Oct. 22 - 27 IACS Belmont House   25th Annual Sooke Harbour
Brentwood Bay
A Beautiful Day - Sooke
Mount Shepherd, B.C.
A Summer Home
A New Day (?)
1935 Nov. 4 - 9 IACS Belmont House   26th Annual An Island Scene
A Beautiful Day at Sooke
Observatory, Saanich
A Portrait
Indian Reserve
The Old Rustic Bridge
1936 Oct. 26 - 31 IACS Coast Hall   27th Annual Spring Time
Evening

References

WHO'S WHO IN NORTHWEST ART (refer to WWNA41)

EARLY PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS IN CANADA (refer to H70)

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
     2 references to Cameron: H70 and WWNA41.

Clippings

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... D.S. Cameron ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932

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