BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mr. Champion Jones

1856 - 1912

B.C. Society of Fine Arts


Mr. Champion Jones was born in England, and exhibited his work there from 1881 to 1901 with the Royal Academy and the Royal Society of British Artists. He came to Vancouver around 1911. He showed artwork with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in their 1911 annual fall exhibition at Pender Hall.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1911 November BCSFA    Fall Exhibition Shack At Kerrisdale
Deadman's Island

References

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

THE DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARTISTS 1880 - 1940 (refer to DBA76)

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

Clippings

"This year's exhibitors were ... Champion Jones ... "
      From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
      Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911

"Mr. Champion Jones's "Shack at Kerridale," a harmony in soft, subdued tones, exhibiting a breadth of treatment which is the despair of the niggling practitioner, was not excelled by any other exhibit. His "Deadman's Island," showing that distressful spot as it stood before the recent sacrilege, while exhibiting the chief characteristics of his style, lacks the delicate colouring of the first picture."
      From "Our Germ Of Art" by Eugene de Lopatecki
      British Columbia magazine, December 1911

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