BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mrs. A.M. Creery

dates

B.C. Society of Fine Arts
B.C. Art League
Vancouver Studio Club & School of Art


Mrs. A. M. Creery exhibited in Vancouver, starting at least as early as 1909 with the B.C. Society of Fine Art's debut First Annual Exhibition at the Dominion Hall in Vancouver. Later that year another miniature was shown in the Exhibition of Pictures held by the Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art.

She was listed as an Active Member in the 1925 B.C. Art League List of Members.

In the Studio Club catalogue she is listed as A.C. Creery, but is listed in an article by Felix Penne that year as Mrs. A.M. Creery. Another listing gives the name as A. McL. Creery. The 1909 City directory only lists one Creery in Vancouver: Andrew McCreight Creery, Manager of the Insurance Department for H. Bell-Irving & Co. Ltd. Creery lived at 1389 Jervis Street in Vancouver's West End.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1909 April 20 - 28 BCSFA   First Annual Exhibition Miniatures
1909 June 19 - July 17 Studio Club   Exhibition of Pictures Sheila (Miniature)
1909 Oct. 27 - Nov. 6 Studio Club   Autumn Show Corner of Kitsilano Beach
"other local views"
1924 July Sketch Club    Midsummer Exhibition Kitsilano Beach
1924 September Sketch Club    September Exhibition Home in June
1924 October Sketch Club    October Exhibition Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria
1924 December Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition Sketches from Life
1925 Nov. 28 - Dec. 5 Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition Trail at Lillooet
1927 April 2 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (mountain landscape)

References

Clippings

"The Studio Club, a new organization to Vancouver, will commence its active existence in premises situated over Trorey's store tomorrow afternoon. ... The club starts with a membership of thirty, of whom nineteen are working, and eleven honorary members. The officers are as follows: ... committee, Mrs. Creery ... "
      "Studio Club Formed"
      Vancouver Province, March 10 1904

"Mr. H. Abbott, the president, Mrs. A.M. Creery, Mrs. A. Lothian Russell, Mr. Mackintosh Gow, the director, and all concerned, are to be congratulated on again getting together an interesting and excellent collection. Each exhibition seems to mark improvement and progress."
      "The Studio Club Autumn Exhibition"
      B.C. Saturday Sunset, October 30 1909

"Mrs. Creery has painted a pretty "Corner of Kitsilano Beach" and other local views."
      "The Studio Club Autumn Exhibition"
      B.C. Saturday Sunset, October 30 1909

"Early in the Vancouver list we met with the name A.M. Creery attached to some excellent local views."
      "Vancouver Studio Club" by Felix Penne
      B.C. Saturday Sunset, November 6 1909

"As an association for the encouragement of art, the Studio Club during the six years of its existence, has had a highly creditable history. Prominent among its workers have been Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Creery, and Mrs. Frame."
      "Art in British Columbia" by Bernard McEvoy,
      Opportunities magazine, 1910

"Those exhibiting included ... Mrs. A.M. Creery ... "
      From "Sketch Club Semi-Annual Art Exhibition"
      B.C. Ladies' Mirror, December 15 1923

""Kitsilano Beach," by Mrs. Creery, is a delightful sketch in sea-opal coloring."
      From "The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, July 1924

"Mrs. Creery's "Home in June" is covered with a mass of wistaria blossoms. Trellis-work, climbing roses, grass and shrubs are beautiful, but it is the wistaria that is the spirit of loveliness there."
      From "September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Alice M. Winlow
      British Columbia Monthly, September 1924

"Some ambitious compositions in figure-painting are: ... "Studies from Life," by Mrs. Creery."
      From "Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, January 1925

"Mrs. A. McC. Creery showed a bright sketch, "Trail at Lillooet"; ... "
      From "Private View Precedes Sketch Club Exhibition"
      Vancouver Province, November 30 1925

"Mrs. McC. Creery's mountain landscape was a water color of much merit."
      From "By The Way In Art"
      Vancouver Province, April 4 1927

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