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.

B.C. Vital Statistics on-line records that a Donald Stewart Cameron died in Burnaby on February 19 1947 at the age of 80, this is probably the same person.


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

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

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE (refer to BCVS)

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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