BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Col. Lionel Grimston Fawkes

May 2 1849 - August 25 1931

Island Arts and Crafts Society
Vancouver Exhibition
Provincial Exhibition


Col. Lionel Grimston Fawkes was born in Hertfordshire, England.

He exhibited in the 1925 and 1926 annual art exhibitions held at the Vancouver Exhibition at Hastings Park. In 1928 he showed one watercolour in the Provincial Exhibition in New Westminster. The exhibition catalogue noted that he was a resident of Mayne Island, B.C.

An article in British Columbia History notes "then in 1925 Lord and Lady Fawkes moved to Mayne Island buying a 35 acre waterfront property with a fine building built by Warburton Pike." They renamed the building Culzean, after Lady Fawkes' childhood home in Scotland.

He also exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society between 1924 and 1931.

He died on Mayne Island in 1931 at the age of 82, according to B.C. Vital Statistics on-line.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1924 Oct. 20 - 25 IACS Belmont Bldg 15th Ann. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria
Portrait of Mr. John Neill
View from Prospect Point, Stanley Park, Vancouver
View from Point Comfort, Mayne Island
Ganges Harbour
Ladner, Fraser River
View on Malahat Road
H.M.S. Hood off Beacon Hill, Victoria, June 21st, 1924
1925 Oct. 20 - 31 IACS Crystal Garden 16th Ann. Duke of Connaught
Active Pass, Mayne Island
Trail on Mayne Island
West Coast, Mayne Island
Alberni
Mt. Baker from Mayne Island
1925 December IACS Crystal Garden 2nd Loan Exh. Trail on Mayne Island
Active Pass
1926 Oct. 19 - 30 IACS Crystal Garden 17th Ann. Mount Pyramid, Jasper
Caledonian Lake, Jasper
"Wigwam," Vancouver
Trail, Gossip Island
1927 Oct. 25 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg 18th Ann. Mayne Island
Mayne Island
Egmont, B.C.
Sardis, B.C.
Mayne Island
Mrs. Foster in Portuguese Costume
1928 September 3 - 8 Provincial Exhibition   Eighth Annual Salon Active Pass from Culzean, Mayne Island
1928 Oct. 23 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg 19th Ann. Mr. Simons
Sproat Lake
Prevost Island Lighthouse
Mayne Island
Seascape
Active Pass
1929 Oct. 22 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg 20th Ann. J.C.M. Keith, R.I.B.A.
Road Making
Mayne Island
Autumn
1930 Oct. 28 - Nov. 8 IACS Board of Trade Bldg 21st Ann. Autumn, Mayne Island
Active Point Lighthouse
 
Posthumous:
1931 Oct. 20 - 31 IACS Belmont Bldg 22nd Ann. Weeping Willow

References

Island Arts and Crafts Society - List of Exhibitors

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

Google search for "Culzean"

"The Agricultural Hall on Mayne Island" by Jennifer Iredale
     British Columbia History, Vol. 49 No. 1 Spring 2016 issue
     Includes references to Fawkes.

https://artcollection.dcms.gov.uk/person/fawkes-lionel-grimston/

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