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Maud Jensen

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Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts
P.A.S.O.V.A.S.


Maud Jensen was a member of P.A.S.O.V.A.S., the Pioneer Art Students of Vancouver Art School, an artist's group formed in 1930 from the students who entered the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in its first year and a half of classes in 1925 and 1926.

Jensen started classes at the VSDAA in 1925, while living at 126 West 16th Avenue in Vancouver. She did not graduate from the art school.

She wrote three articles for the June 1926 issue of The Paint Box, the art school's annual: The Artist's Lament, a Poem, and The Hay Carts.

The Artist's Lament:
      I takes and paints,
      Hears no complaints,
      And sells before I'm dry;
      Then savage Ruskin
      Sticks his tusk in,
      And nobody will buy.

She later exhibited in the PASOVAS group exhibition at the B.C. Art League gallery in 1930.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1930 Nov. 27 - Dec. 7 PASOVAS   Art Club Exhibition The Bathers
Decorative Composition
English Bay, Winter
Child's Desk Panel
Two Pair Candles

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"Prize winners among second year students were: H. Mortimer Lamb for composition, $10, Miss Maud Jensen; Palette and Chisel Club, for modelling, $15, Miss Katherine Harrison; Mrs. Jonathan Rogers, costume design, $15, Miss Margaret Corry; Girls' Apparel Shop, costume design, $10, Miss Beatrice Lennie; bronze medal presented by Vancouver Branch, Canadian Women's Press Club, for Canadian Confederation poster, Miss Margaret Williams."
      From "Prizes Presented to Art Students"
      unknown newspaper, June 1927

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