BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Claude William Gray

c 1880 - 1940

Royal Canadian Academy of Art (Associate)
B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Charter Member)
Provincial Exhibition


Claude William Gray was apparently from England. He exhibited his paintings in Vancouver, starting at least as early as 1909 with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts' debut First Annual Exhibition at the Dominion Hall in Vancouver. He was a Charter Member of the Society.

From 1912 - 1914 he lived and exhibited his paintings in Winnipeg.

He exhibited two watercolours in the 1928 Provincial Exhibition in New Westminster. The exhibition catalogue noted that he was a resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

He exhibited an oil painting and a sculpture in the 1932 All Canadian Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The index card file at Vancouver Art Gallery Library lists Gray as an exhibitor in the B.C. Society of Fine Arts exhibition in May 1929, but he is not listed in the exhibition catalogue.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION
1937 Feb. 9 - 21 Watercolours VAG

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1909 April 20 - 28 BCSFA   First Annual Exhibition Decorative Panel
1909 November BCSFA    Second Exhibition Study of Roses
Sweet Peas
1928 September 3 - 8 Provincial Exhibition   Eighth Annual Salon Above Lake O'Hara, Snow Scene
Old Montreal
1932 May - July VAG   All Canadian Exhibition Boy With Grebe
The Queen of Sheba

References

THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)

ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS - EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979 (refer to RCA81)

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      3 references cited for Gray, including RCA above.

TAMING THE FRONTIER: ART & WOMEN IN THE CANADIAN WEST 1880 - 1920
      July 2005; by Virgina G. Berry, copyright Margaret Berry and Julie Berry Melynk.
      188 pages softcover; illustrated, footnotes, bibliography, index
      Centered on Winnipeg, but has early references to Gray.

Clippings

"The outcome of various meetings since last May was a united one held last week, when the following list of members of the new undertaking passed muster and various other inaugural business was done. It is intended to limit the membership of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts - that is the appellation chosen - to 36 members. The names are ... Claude Gray, A.R.C.A., ... "
      From "Society of Fine Arts"
      Victoria Times, November 20 1908

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