BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Gertrude C. Keen (Mrs. George Keen)
(nee Gertrude Cecilia White)

c1893 - February 22 1985

Western Art Circle
West Vancouver Sketch Club


Gertrude Cecilia White married George Henry Keen in North Vancouver on June 13, 1917.

She exhibited artwork in the 1935 B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and in the 1945 Christmas and 1947 Annual exhibitions.

She later exhibited with the Western Art Cirle in 1956, and was a member of the West Vancouver Sketch Club in 1948.

Keen died in North Vancouver in 1985 at the age of 92, according to BC Vital Statistics on-line.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1919 Sept. 6 - ? Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition Forest Fire at North Vancouver
Bowen Island
Lynn Valley
1920 Feb. 7 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (landscape)
1935 Nov. 22 - Dec. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition The Lions, North Vancouver
A Gabriola Island Farm
1947 April 12 - 13 WVCAC   Exhibition of Fine Arts The Croft, Ganges
1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 VAG   B.C. Artists 16th Annual Sea View - Caulfeilds, B.C.
1948 June 1 - 13 VAG   West Van Sketch Club Hills of Lynn
Taylor Farm, Gabriola

References

WESTERN ART CIRCLE - 3rd ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF MEMBER'S PAINTINGS (refer to WAC56)

WEST VANCOUVER SKETCH CLUB - LIST OF MEMBER 1947-1977 (refer to WVSC)

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE marriage, death (refer to BCVS)

Clippings

" ... "Forest Fire at North Vancouver," "Bowen Island," and "Lynn Valley" by Mrs. G.C. Keen ... "
      From "Sketch Club Opens Winter Season's Work"
      Vancouver Daily Province, September 8 1919

" ... Mrs. Geo. Keen (was represented) by a landscape in oils, ... "
      From "Sketch Club Has Resumed Exhibitions"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 9 1920

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