| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
The DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARTISTS 1880 - 1940 notes his exhibitions from 1881 to 1898, including the exhibition of 44 artworks with the Royal Society of Artists during that time.
He came to Canada around 1907, and by 1909 was exhibiting his artwork in the B.C. Society of Fine Arts' debut First Annual Exhibition at the Dominion Hall in Vancouver. Later that year he showed more paintings in the Exhibition of Pictures held by the Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art, where he was an instructor in oil and watercolour painting. The club was at 17 Haddock Block. Gow was living at the Regent Hotel in 1910.
Gow is listed in the 1912 City Directory as a clerk, employed by J. Collcutt and Company. In 1914 he is listed as accountant for the firm, and was living at 635 Granville Street. Collcutt was a wholesale importer of wines and spirits, and agents for Teacher's Scotch Whiskies.
Gow returned to the United Kingdom after World War One broke out, according to a 1918 article in the locally-published The Gold Stripe, Volume One, and apparently did not return to Vancouver.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1909 April 20 - 28 | BCSFA First Annual Exhibition | On the British Columbia Coast |
| A Windmill, Moonlight | ||
| Texada Island | ||
| Sunset in Holland; A Shepherd | ||
| Crossing The Dunes | ||
| On the Almond, Scotland | ||
| Milking Time, Belgium | ||
| Cattle on the Dunes, Belgium | ||
| 1909 June 19 - July 17 | Studio Club Exhibition of Pictures | Ploughing |
| Gypsy Caravan, Epsom Downs | ||
| Brockton Point | ||
| Looking West, Kitsilano | ||
| A Grey Day, Kitsilano | ||
| Sunset, Holland | ||
| Autumn | ||
| Study of Rocks | ||
| Moonlight | ||
| The Swing - Unfinished Study | ||
| A Study of Color | ||
| Study of Boats, Belgium | ||
| 1909 Oct. 27 - Nov. 6 | Studio Club Autumn Exhibition | Burnaby Lake |
| The Edge of the Lake | ||
| On Burrard Inlet | ||
| 1909 November | BCSFA Second Exhibition | A Summer Morning |
| The Lake, Burnaby | ||
| A Shower | ||
| Looking Across Burnaby Lake | ||
| Sunset, Holland | ||
| On the Dunes, Belgium | ||
| 1910 May | BCSFA Third Exhibition | On an English Common |
| A Sultry Day | ||
| A Breezy Day | ||
| Moonlight on the Lake | ||
| Sketch of Hindoo | ||
| 1911 November | BCSFA Fall Exhibition | (3 charming local scenes) |
| 1912 Nov. 25 - 30 | BCSFA Annual Exhibition | The Edge of the Wood |
| On the Dunes, Belgium | ||
| Spring Day, Burnaby Lake | ||
| 1915 April | BCSFA Works by Members | Autumn, Burnaby Valley |
| Deer Lake | ||
| The Edge of the Clearing | ||
| Springtime | ||
| A Woodland Glade | ||
| 1950 April 25 - May 14 | BCSA 40th Annual Exhibition | Landscape |
THE DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARTISTS 1880 - 1940 (refer to DBA76)
AN EXHIBITION OF OUR COLLECTION OF EARLY WESTERN CANADIAN WATERCOLORS (refer to UL78)
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
CITY & PROVINCIAL DIRECTORIES 1908 (refer to DIR)
"Vancouverites of the future will be glad that ... J. Mackintosh Gow ...
and other Vancouver artists find imagination in local scenes."
From "Vancouver Studio Club Spring Exhibition"
B.C. Saturday Sunset, July 3 1909
"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."
From "The Studio Club Autumn Exhibition" by
Felix Penne
B.C. Saturday Sunset, October 30 1909
"Mr. J.F. Mackintosh Gow has caught a few of these views very happily. "Burnaby Lake,"
"The Edge of the Lake," and "On Burrard Inlet" are instances."
From "The Studio Club Autumn Exhibition" by
Felix Penne
B.C. Saturday Sunset, October 30 1909
"J. F Mackintosh Gow has many good pictures . . ."
From "Vancouver Studio Club" by
Felix Penne
B.C. Saturday Sunset, November 6 1909
"Educated in Scotland, J. MacIntosh Gow is an able and successful painter,
with a keen eye for color, and for the poetic aspects of nature. Though he
works chiefly in water color, he is successful also in oil, in both devoting
himself chiefly to landscape. His works always take a high place in the
B.C.S.F.A. exhibitions."
From "Art in British Columbia" by
Bernard McEvoy
Opportunities Magazine, 1910
"This year's exhibitors were ... J.F. Mackintosh Gow ... "
From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911
"Mr. Mackintosh Gow merits a good share of praise. Mr. Gow, an exhibitor on many
occasions in the Royal Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy, showed three charming local
scenes executed in his broad and deliberate style, which is ever a delight to those acquainted
with the difficulties of the water-color medium."
From "Our Germ Of Art" by Eugene de Lopatecki
British Columbia magazine, December 1911
"Though but a small organization, numerically considered, the B.C. Society of
Fine Arts has had the honor of contributing its quota of members to engage
in the determined and now successful fight for freedom and civilization. It
may be said that all those belonging to this artistic fraternity have helped
in various ways, but those marked out for special recognition are:
G. MACKINTOSH GOW - A landscape artist of much ability. His Scottish blood was
quickly aroused by the demand for men, and he soon left for Britain where he has
been engaged in war work ever since."
From "Honor Roll - B.C. Society of Fine Arts"
The Gold Stripe, Volume One, Christmas 1918