| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
Grace Judge exhibited her artwork in Vancouver starting at least as early as 1909, showing three paintings at the Exhibition of Pictures held by the Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art. She was also an early member of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts. From 1910 to 1913 she showed her work with the Island Arts and Crafts Society in Victoria, B.C.
Grace provided some pen and ink illustrations to The Gold Stripe - Volume Two, published in 1919 at the end of World War One. In 1920 she exhibited in the Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts, held at the Vancouver School Board offices on Hamilton Street.
A note on a biographical file commented that she was " S.P. Judge's 'clever sister' ".
In 1928 she exhibited two watercolours in the Provincial Exhibition in New Westminster. The exhibition catalogue noted that she was living in North Vancouver, B.C.
She exhibited her work in the 1930 Spring Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts. She was listed as a member of the Society in the exhibition catalogue.
She exhibited her work in the B.C. Artists exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery after it opened in 1931, and was living in North Vancouver at the time.
She showed work in the B.C. Artists Christmas exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1933.
In 1946 she and her sister May Judge gave an exhibition of their watercolours at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Both of the women were living at 239 East 10th Avenue, North Vancouver at the time, telephone number North 774R. It cost them $5.00 to rent a room from the gallery for their exhibition.
Grace's work was included in the retrospective exhibition "Contemporaries of Emily Carr", at the Simon Fraser University Gallery, February 5 - 22, 1974, along with that of her sister May Judge.
Grace died at the age of 100, in a private hospital in West Vancouver.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | LOCATION |
| 1946 Nov. 19 - Dec. 8 | Exhibition by May Judge and Grace Judge | VAG |
| 1909 June 19 - July 17 | Studio Club Exhibition of Pictures | Monday's Child |
| Poppies | ||
| September | ||
| 1909 Oct. 27 - Nov. 6 | Studio Club Autumn Exhibition | "book illustrations" |
| 1909 November | BCSFA Second Exhibition | Design for Book Illustration |
| Come Unto These Yellow Sands | ||
| Winter | ||
| Designs for China Painting | ||
| 1910 May | BCSFA Third Exhibition | Midsummer's Night Dream |
| 1910 September | IACS 1st Annual Exhibition | Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Winter | ||
| 1911 November | BCSFA Fall Exhibition | Second Beach |
| (other more realistic representations) | ||
| 1912 Nov. 25 - 30 | BCSFA Annual | Moonlight |
| Summer Evening | ||
| Point Atkinson from Bowen Island | ||
| Book Plate | ||
| 1915 April | BCSFA Works by Members | Autumn |
| The South Easterly Wind | ||
| April | ||
| Summer Night | ||
| Study of Trees | ||
| Winter | ||
| 1916 September | BCSFA - Annual Exhibition | Vine Maples |
| The Narrows | ||
| 1917 Sept. 14 - 22 | BCSFA Eleventh | Summer Afternoon |
| September | ||
| Ornamental Design (accepted by City of Vancouver) |
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| Porpoise Bay, Jervis Inlet | ||
| Indian Reserve | ||
| A Sketch | ||
| 1920 September 18 - 25 | BCSFA Annual | The Patchwork Quilt |
| Hollyhocks | ||
| Indian Village | ||
| The Rock Garden | ||
| July | ||
| Autumn | ||
| Evening Primroses | ||
| 1921 Sept. 19 - 24 | BCSFA 13th Annual | Green Apples |
| The Lions | ||
| August | ||
| Low Tide | ||
| The Little House | ||
| Afternoon | ||
| 1922 Sept. 16 - 23 | BCSFA 14th Annual | The Quarry, North Vancouver |
| Summer Morning | ||
| Sunlight | ||
| Morning in the Woods | ||
| Pen Drawing | ||
| The Cottage, North Vancouver | ||
| 1923 May 12 - 19 | BCSFA 15th Annual | April |
| Fallen Leaves | ||
| Cottage Garden | ||
| The Lions | ||
| A Study | ||
| Mt. Cheam | ||
| 1924 May 3 - 17 | BCSFA 16th Annual | Pen Drawing |
| The Old Landing, Valdez Island | ||
| Gabriola | ||
| The Window Box | ||
| A Sketch | ||
| Arbutus Trees | ||
| In the Woods, Gabriola Island | ||
| 1924 Aug. 9 - 16 | Vancouver Exhibition Annual Exhibition | The Old Landing |
| Evening Primroses, Stanley Park | ||
| The Old House, Roberts Creek | ||
| 1925 May 9 - 16 | BCSFA 17th Annual | Book Cover |
| Book Illustration | ||
| Rock Garden, Caulfield | ||
| Design for Magazine Cover | ||
| "April Moon" | ||
| "Afterglow" | ||
| 1926 May 8 - 15 | BCSFA 18th Annual | The Yellow Gown |
| Primroses | ||
| Book Illustration | ||
| Afternoon | ||
| 1927 June 10 - 25 | BCSFA 19th Annual | Matilda and Penalope |
| The Fairy Dancers | ||
| Violets | ||
| "Grey Evening" | ||
| 1928 September 3 - 8 | Provincial Exhibition Eighth Annual Salon | To Violets |
| Back to Fairyland - Over the Hills | ||
| 1929 May 18 - June 8 | BCSFA 21st Annual | The Fairies Come to the Ball |
| April Gardening | ||
| The New Hat | ||
| Ye Faire Maide | ||
| Christmas Card | ||
| 1929 Nov. 16 - 30 | BCSFA Winter Exhibition | A Song of Spring |
| October | ||
| 1930 May 31 - June 14 | BCSFA Spring Exhibition | The Basket Seller |
| Daisies | ||
| A Song | ||
| The Dream | ||
| 1930 Aug. 6 - 16 | VanExh Oil Paintings & Water-colours | October |
| Christmas Fare | ||
| 1932 May - July | VAG All Canadian Exhibition | October |
| 1932 Oct. 5 - 30 | VAG B.C. Artists 1st Annual | Summer Night |
| Book Illustration | ||
| The Dream | ||
| 1933 June 3 - 11 | VAG BCSFA 23rd Annual | Cottage Garden |
| A Song of Spring | ||
| Book Illustration | ||
| Sunset | ||
| 1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15 | VAG B.C. Artists 2nd Annual | Breezy Day |
| April Evening | ||
| The Garden Path | ||
| 1933 Dec. 1 - 17 | VAG B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition | Summer Morning |
| Perry Bay, V.I. | ||
| A Cottage (tinted drawing) | ||
| 1934 Sept. 21 - Oct. 14 | VAG B.C. Artists 3rd Annual | Midsummer |
| East Wind | ||
| Christmas | ||
| Pen Drawing | ||
| 1934 ? - ? | VAG B.C. Artists Edmonton Exhibition | Midsummer |
| Pen Drawing | ||
| 1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 | VAG B.C. Artists 4th Annual | Misty Morning |
| The Fairy Coach | ||
| Pen Drawing | ||
| 1950 April 25 - May 14 | BCSA 40th Annual | September |
The Gold Stripe - Volume Three
c1919. Published by the Amputation Club of B.C., Vancouver
Includes pen and ink illustrations by Judge.
THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)
Island Arts and Crafts Society - List of Exhibitors
CONTEMPORARIES OF EMILY CARR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to SFU74)
FROM DESOLATION TO SPLENDOUR (refer to FDTS77)
Includes references to Judge and her influences, p.66-67, 83
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
BRITISH COLUMBIA WOMEN ARTISTS 1885-1985 (refer to AGGV85)
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY - B.C. ARTISTS FILES (refer to VPL)
"Grace Judge shows some clever black and white work - design for book illustrations -
in which a good firm line, deft execution, is united to a pretty inventive fancy."
From "The Studio Club Autumn Exhibition" by
Felix Penne
B.C. Saturday Sunset, October 30 1909
"Grace Judge, B.C.S.F.A., has not only original faculty and a style of her
own, but she possesses an imagination that busies itself in dainty and refined
avenues of thought. In her quaint devices which have for their "motif" the dress and
customs of bygone days, she displays an insight and technique that are both admirable
and industrious."
From "Art in British Columbia" by
Bernard McEvoy
Opportunities Magazine, 1910
"This year's exhibitors were ... Miss G. Judge ... "
From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911
"Miss Grace Judge is an artist the merit of whose work varies
considerably. Indeed, it may be said that as in decorative treatment her work holds the
first rank, yet as she approaches realism she loses the grasp characteristic of the
method in which she has executed so many charming pictures in the past. "Second Beach,"
by this artist, is a delicate study for decorative effect, but her other more realistic
representations were not so pleasing."
From "Our Germ Of Art" by Eugene de Lopatecki
British Columbia magazine, December 1911
"In No. 19 "Vine Maples", Miss Grace Judge shows that she has sat at the feet of the
Pre-Raphaelites and her rendering is scholarly and able. This picture shows considerable
study and a successful attack of difficulties, it is highly decorative and the distant
trees are well put in. The same commendations apply to her picture entitled "The Narrows",
which by its admirably decorative design is lifted above locality."
From "With The B.C. Artists" by "A Visitor"
Vancouver Province, September 27 1916
" ... to the graceful bits of woodland or water about the coast district of such
artists as Miss Grace Judge ... "
From "B.C. Society of Fine Arts - An Appreciation" by R.A.H.
Westminster Review, September 1917
"The big trees and "Autumn" of Miss Grace Judge are good examples of this
painstaking and improving artist."
From "Local Work is on View" by Bernard McEvoy
Vancouver Province, October 2 1919
"Among those whose pictures were sold were ... Grace Judge ..."
From "By the Way in Art" per B.C. Art League
Vancouver Province, Thursday October 6 1921, page 12
"Grace Judge again contributes a number of charming studies
where an almost fairy-like tendency in decorative effect mingles with vision and
ability in grouping and color. There is always the effect of a pattern while no
pattern is apparent. Her "Fallen Leaves" is a delightful study in golden brown and
blue, while in "April" she has caught the spirit and coloring of mountains and has
brought them, as it were, into her own garden. A simple panel labelled "A Cottage
Garden" is very charming."
From "B.C. Fine Arts Society Exhibition (First Notice)"
Vancouver Province, May 15 1923
""The Old Landing, Valdez Island," by Grace Judge, is a fine, bold
piece of work true to nature and yet touched mysteriously with the magic of the conventional
decorative artist. Therefore it is a triumph."
From "Exhibition of B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Second Notice)"
Vancouver Province, May 9 1924
""Gabriola" by Grace Judge shows a stretch of sand with cool
purple shadows. A row of trees sparsely foliaged are silhouetted against a sky splashed
with cobalt. There is the feeling of a wind rising up, a deliciously cool sensation comes
to one in looking at the picture."
From "Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Art" by
Alice M. Winlow
British Columbia magazine, June 1924
"Grace Judge's beautiful drawing of fairies and
antique ladies and gentlemen have a delicacy that is very pleasing."
From "B.C. Society of Fine Arts" by
Bernard McEvoy
Vancouver Province, April 28 1928
Article on Grace Judge and "another woman"
Vancouver Province, April 7, 1929 p.5 (magazine section)
"Grace Judge shows three examples of clever penwork
in black and white, delicate in execution, and showing much imagination and
study of the fashions of a bygone day."
From "B.C. Society of Fine Arts" by
Diogenes
Vancouver Province, November 13 1930
"The Judge Family is well represented with S.P. Judge and
the Misses Grace and May P. Judge all exhibiting."
From "Bargains in Art" by D.S.M.
Vancouver Sun, December 1 1933
"Other painters in this medium include ... Grace Judge with "September"; ... "
From "Watercolors Highlight of Art Showing" by
Mildred Valley Thornton
Vancouver Sun, May 3 1950
"The Society membership has been constantly strengthened in the succeeding years
by the addition of other members, which included in the early years ... Grace Judge ... "
From "B.C. Society of Artists - A History"
by J.D. Parker
B.C. Society of Fine Arts 40th Annual
Exhibition Catalogue, 1950