BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Major Charles Busteed (Bill) Fowler

1849 - March 29 1941

B.C. Art League (Finance Committee 1920)
B.C. Society of Fine Arts


Major Charles Bill Fowler was appointed to the Finance Committee of the B.C. Art League at its formation in 1920.

He exhibited three paintings in the 1922 Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts. He submitted work and exhibited in the B.C. Artists' exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1933 to 1935.

He was noted as being the oldest exhibitor in the 1936 David Spencer Golden Jubilee Exhibition at age 87. He died in Vancouver in 1941 aged 91.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1922 Sept. 16 - 23 BCSFA   14th Annual Exhibition Brent Tor, Devonshire
Interior Baltimore Cathedral
Under Croft, Diocesan Hall, Baltimore
1924 Feb. 2 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition Dawn of Day, Kitsilano
1925 Nov. 28 - Dec. 5 Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition Clovelly
The Old Bridge, Abingdon, near Oxford
(Old Country sketches)
1932 May - July VAG   All Canadian Exhibition Brenton, Devonshire
1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 2nd Annual Sunset O'er English Bay
Book Plates
1933 Dec. 1 - 17 VAG   B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition Saanich Inlet
An Irish Cottage
1934 Dec. 4 - 16 VAG   B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition English Bay from Point Grey
Irish Cottage near Kinsale, Ireland
1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 4th Annual Vancouver's Hub from South Bank of False Creek
1936 Aug. 18 - 28 David Spencer B.C. Artists' Golden Jubilee (titles not known)
1946 July 2 - 28 VAG   Jubilee Exhibition Kitsilano Beach

References

100 YEARS OF B.C. ART (refer to VAG58)

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (no certificate) (refer to BCVS)

Clippings

"The committees which will be recommended to the League were named as follows: Finance: Major Fowler ..."
      From "B.C. Art League Committees Are Active"
      Western Woman's Weekly, October 9 1920

" ... Major C.B. Fowler, in "Dawn of Day, Kitsilano", has reproduced the very atmosphere of wooded cliff and winding beach."
      From "Sketch Club Exhibit Held"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 4 1924

""Dawn of Day" by Major Fowler is another dawn, but painted in the subdued and tender key of A minor. The sky is pale, and an opalescent mist seems to partially veil all nature. A crane on a boulder, silhouetted against the vaporous light, makes one even more alive to the sweetness of the early hour."
      From "Impressions of the Sketch Club" by Alice M. Winlow
      British Columbia Monthly, March 1924

"Old Country sketches were also shown by Major C.B. Fowler, including "Clovelly" and "The Old Bridge, Abingdon, near Oxford.""
      From "Private View Precedes Sketch Club Exhibition"
      Vancouver Province, November 30 1925

" ... Major C.B. Foyler (sic), ... and others are exhibiting in the various classes."
      From "Bargains in Art" by D.S.M.
      Vancouver Sun, December 1 1933

"Oldest contributor to the show is 87-year-old Major C.B. Fowler of Vancouver."
      From "400 B.C. Pictures in Jubilee Art Show"
      Vancouver Sun, August 15 1936

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