BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Lillian Clack

April 11 1874 - June 27 1963

IACS
B.C. Art League (Active Member 1925)


Lillian Clack was born in London, England, one of the younger children in a family of twelve. Her father Thomas Clack taught art at South Kensington, London. He was a painter of landscapes and domestic scenes, and exhibited in England from 1881 to 1891. He owned property on the Isle of Wight, and had visitors that included H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw.

Lillian came to Canada c1910 on her own and settled in Duncan, where she started a kindergarten, and taught piano and watercolour painting as well as elementary school classes. She was described as a "tall and very pretty young lady with long golden hair."

Her specialty in painting was dogwoods, but she also painted other subjects. She exhibited with the IACS in 1936. Sometime during World War Two she abruptly left Duncan with just a suitcase, and moved into a house in North Vancouver at 3800 Prospect Road. She was later found there unconscious by neighbours, and ended up in Essondale, where she died in 1963, after retiring in 1956 as an artist, teacher, and musician.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1936 Oct. 26 - 31 IACS Coast Hall   27th Annual Iris

References

THE DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARTISTS 1880 - 1940 (refer to DBA76)
      Reference for Thomas Clack, Lillian's father.

MEMORIES NEVER LOST compiled by the Pioneer Researchers
      "Stories of the pioneer women of the Cowichan Valley and a Brief History of the Valley 1850-1920"
      Includes 2 page biography of Clack
      ISBN 0-88925-724-8, hardcover, published 1986.

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

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