BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

George Goutiere

February 1899 - 1948

Canadian Institute of Associated Arts
Federation of Canadian Artists (Founding Member 1941)


George Goutiere was born in India in 1899. After a number of adventures in that sub-continent he came to Canada. He taught at the Canadian Institute of Associated Arts in Vancouver.

The 1938 Canadian Institute of Associated Arts Prospectus noted that Goutiere was an Instructor in Radio-Script, Article and Short-Story Writing, and "is a successful eastern short-story author and illustrator. He has had several radio-scripts produced over "CBR."

He had a two person exhibition in 1938 at the Vancouver Art Gallery with Margaret Carter, and a solo exhibition in 1947. An interesting autobiographical letter accompanied Goutiere's application for the 1947 exhibition, but did not appear in the small exhibition catalogue.

He also exhibited in B.C. Artist annuals in 1940, 1943, 1946, and 1947. He lived at Fisherman's Cove, West Vancouver in 1943, in 1946 he was living in Boundary Bay, and in 1947 in Vancouver.

BC Vital Statistics on-line did not provide any information on the artist as of May 2021.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION
1938 Oct. 12 - 21 Margaret Carter & George Goutiere VAG
1947 Jan. 14 - Feb. 2 Oil Paintings, Watercolours & Drawings VAG

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1940 Sept. 20 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 9th Annual Annemarie
Portrait
De Profundis
1943 Sept. 25 - Oct. 20 VAG   B.C. Artists 12th Annual The Man on the Bench
1946 Sept. 21 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 15th Annual Portrait of a Young Woman
Esther
1946 Oct. ? - ? FCA    40 Selections from 15th BCA Esther
1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 VAG   B.C. Artists 16th Annual Mexican Mother
Piety

References

ART AS YOUR CAREER
    Canadian Institute of Associated Arts Prospectus, 1938

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

Information and images of artwork: http://georgegoutiere.blogspot.com/

Clippings

MARGARET CARTER AND GEORGE GOUTIERE.
"Mr. Goutiere, a recent arrival from Toronto, is a playwright, director and artist. Several of his drawings which satirize modern social problems, have been published in Eastern Canada and the United States. His exhibition will include drawings in line and colour depicting incidents in the lives of people in European countries now in upheaval."
      Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 2. October, 1938

"Honourable Mention 1 for oil paintings went to George Goutiere of West Vancouver for "The Man on the Bench"; the second Honourable Mention was given to Nan Lawson Cheney of Capilano for her painting, "British Columbia River." "
      From "12th Annual B.C. Artists' Exhibition"
      Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, November 1943

"Gallery To Show Collection of George Goutiere Paintings" by Palette
      Vancouver Province, December 27 1946

"Exhibition of Goutiere's Works to Go From Here To New York" by Palette
      Vancouver Province, January 17 1947

"A one-man exhibit of paintings and sketches by George Goutiere, now on view at the Art Gallery, is the most vigorous and beautiful that I have as yet seen here by an artist living in Canada. ... "
      From"Goutiere Art Gallery Exhibit Vivid, Poetic" by Constance Mackay
      News Herald, January 18 1947

"Vigor Shown in Goutiere's Rich Paintings" by M.V. Thornton
      Vancouver Sun, January 20 1947

"... she was particularly successful in interesting people in the Exhibition by George Goutiere."
      From "Gallery Docent"
      Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, May 1947

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