BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Thomas Sinclair Gore

1851 - January 8 1937

Island Arts and Crafts Society
B.C. Society of Fine Arts


Thomas Sinclair Gore exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society from 1912 until 1935.

Gore exhibited in the 1930 Spring Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts.

In 1932 Gore 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.

He died in Oak Bay in 1937 at the age of 85.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1912 Oct. 17 - 19 IACS Alexandra Club 3rd Ann. Golf Links (J.S. Gore)
1913 Oct. 16 - 18 IACS Alexandra Club 4th Ann. Garden Scene
Nanoose Bay
Indian Village, Q.C.I.
Skidegate Inlet
Queen Charlotte City
Evening
1914 Nov. 19 - 21 IACS Alexandra Club 5th Ann. Moonlight Music
French Interior
Place de l'Alma, Paris
Oak Bay
Italian Peasants
View From Golf Links
View From St. Germaine, Paris
Sunlight and Shadow
1915 Nov. 23 - 27 IACS Union Bank Bldg. 6th Ann. View from an Oak Bay Garden
Rocky Point, Vancouver Island
Last Days of Summer
Cadboro Bay
Gonzales Hill
On Colwood Golf Links
1916 Oct. 24 - 28 IACS Union Bank Bldg. 7th Ann. Bowker's Creek
A Breezy Day
A Bright Day
Ten-Mile Point
Esquimalt Lighthouse
Portrait of the Artist
Portrait
1917 Oct. 23 - 27 IACS Pemberton Bldg. 8th Ann. Comox Lake
The Call of the Wild
The Creek
On Victoria Arm
Summer Afternoon, Victoria Arm
Esquimalt Harbour
Burnside Road
Forbes, Campbell River
1918 Jan. 14 - 18 IACS Pemberton Bldg. 9th Ann. The Harbor
1919 Oct. 23 - 29 IACS Belmont Building 10th Ann. The Survey Party
1920 Oct. 25 - 30 IACS Belmont Building 11th Ann. Shawnigan Lake
Macaulay Point
At Smugglers Cove
August Afternoon
The Creek
1921 Oct. 18 - 25 IACS Belmont Building 12th Ann. Landscape
Flowers
1922 Oct. 19 - 25 IACS Belmont Building 13th Ann. Butchart's Gardens
Tod Inlet
A Garden Scene
Prospect Lake
A Corner of the Room
1923 Oct. 23 - 30 IACS H.B.C. Building 14th Ann. Stream
1924 Oct. 20 - 25 IACS Belmont Building 15th Ann. After the Shower
Moonlight
On Esquimalt Harbour
Garden Scene
1926 Oct. 19 - 30 IACS Crystal Garden 17th Ann. A Garden
A Road in Oak Bay
Shawnigan Lake
View from Crystal Garden Gallery Doors
1927 Oct. 25 - 31 IACS Belmont Building 18th Ann. Pemberton Woods
Evening After Storm
Gonzales Hill
View from Roberts Street
Malahat Road at Goldstream
A Gray Day
Breezy off Clover Point
Buttercup Time
1928 Oct. 23 - 31 IACS Belmont Building 19th Ann. Esquimalt Harbour
Sunset
Deserted Gravel Pit
Mrs. Bevan's Garden
Butchart's Gardens
Finlayson Arm
Landscape
After the Rain
1929 Oct. 22 - 31 IACS Belmont Building 20th Ann. Saanich Inlet from McCurdy's
Prospect Lake
A Bit of Esquimalt Harbour
From Gonzales Hill
Old Craigflower School House
1930 May 31-June 14 BCSFA Spring Exhibition Finlayson Arm
1930 Oct. 28 - Nov. 8 IACS Brd of Trade Bldg 21st Ann. Portrait, Late W.S. Gore
Late Flowers
Butchart Gardens
View in Butchart's Gardens
Autumn Wood
Corner of Garden
1931 Oct. 20 - 31 IACS Belmont Building 22nd Ann. Hollyhocks
On Cowichan River
Deep Bay
Autumn Mist
The Artist's Home
Warm Corner
1932 Oct. 11 - 22 IACS Belmont Building 23rd Ann. Tide Flats, Goldstream
Empress Gardens from Belmont Building
King George Terrace Rock Cut
From a Hill Farm in North Saanich
Oak Bay
1933 Oct. 24 - Nov. 4 IACS Belmont House 24th Ann. Olympic Mountains
Just Out of the Woods
Prospect Lake
Reflections
Sunset on the Arm
Skidate (sic) Channel
1934 Oct. 22 - 27 IACS Belmont House 25th Ann. Fall Flowers
Flowering Double Crab Apple
Lone Fisherman
Asters
Latumn
Peonies
1935 Nov. 4 - 9 IACS Belmont House 26th Ann. Autumn on the Malahat
Circle Lake, Forbidden Plateau

References

ISLAND ARTS & CRAFTS CLUB 5th ANNUAL EXHIBITION (refer to IACS14)

ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

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

Not in McMann or Macdonald.

Clippings

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... T.S. Gore ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932

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