He exhibited in the Seattle Art Museum's annual Northwest Artists exhibitions in 1928.

He exhibited work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the B.C. Artists exhibitions from 1933 to 1941.

In 1932 Checkley 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 Arthur Checkley died in Victoria on November 3 1964 at the age of 91. He was survived by his wife, Eva Louise Temperley, and his daughter Sylvia Christina Angvine. It was noted on the certificate that Checkley "retired" from his profession of "Artist (Painter)" in 1940.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

DATE	EXHIBITION	ARTWORK
1930 Aug. 22 - Sept. 6	CNE   Small Pictures	Evening
1933 Mar. 3 - 15	VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition	Ghosts of the Past
		Mountain Lake
		Prairie Storm Cloud
1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15	VAG   B.C. Artists 2nd Annual	Stronghold
		Sentinels
		The Lake
		The Peak
1936 Sept. 18 - Oct. 11	VAG   B.C. Artists 5th Annual	Windswept Snow
		Solemn Land
		Winter, B.C.
		Nature's Tower
1936 Dec. 8 - 20	VAG Christmas Black & White Exhibition	Dawn
		Twilight
1937 Sept. 17 - Oct. 10	VAG   B.C. Artists 6th Annual	Glacier and Peaks
1938 Sept. 16 - Oct. 9	VAG   B.C. Artists 7th Annual	Near Victoria
1939 Mar. 14 - 26	VAG   IACS Vancouver Island Exhibition	Winter
		Early Morning
1941 Sept. 26 - Oct. 19	VAG   B.C. Artists 10th Annual	Tidal Water
		Pines
		Edge of the Wood

References

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

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

PRINTMAKING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA 1889-1983 (refer to AGGV83)

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

THE FECKLESS COLLECTION (refer to FECK18)

Clippings

"Arthur Checkley's "Dawn" and "Twilight," ... would look well in a home."
       From "Buy a Picture for Christmas"
       Vancouver Sun, December 1936