BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Carrie Lowle
(nee Roberts, m Francis F.W. Lowle)

August 6 1881 - October 31 1965

Women Sketch Hunters of Alberta (1938)
Federation of Canadian Artists (Founding Member 1941)
Penticton Art Club

Carrie Lowle was born in Birmingham, England. She came to Canada c1907, and moved to Penticton eight years later. She married Francis Lowle in Victoria On March 17 1908.

She exhibited artwork in the B.C. Artists annuals at the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1935 to 1948. Her name was mis-spelled as Lowie in the 1935 exhibition catalogue. She was listed as living in Penticton.

She had work in the Federation of Canadian Artists Third Traveling Exhibition in 1947.

Lowle died in Penticton in 1965 at the age of 84. Her occupation was noted as "Housewife."


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 VAG   B.C. Artists 4th Annual A Okanagan Rancher's Home
Skaha Lake from Green Mountain
The Portland Canal
1936 Sept. 18 - Oct. 11 VAG   B.C. Artists 5th Annual Rapids on the Yukon River
1938 Sept. 16 - Oct. 9 VAG   B.C. Artists 7th Annual The Spirit of the Mountains
Coming Storm
1939 Sept. 15 - Oct. 8 VAG   B.C. Artists 8th Annual Solitude
1940 Sept. 20 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 9th Annual Windswept
1941 Sept. 26 - Oct. 19 VAG   B.C. Artists 10th Annual Evening Sun, Kaleden, B.C.
1942 Nov. 3 - 15 FCA   Red Cross Benefit (no information available)
1943 Sept. 25 - Oct. 20 VAG   B.C. Artists 12th Annual Sun Lit Monarch
An Osprey's Nest
1944 Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 VAG   B.C. Artists 13th Annual Sunlit Pines
1945 Sept. 22 - Oct. 21 VAG   B.C. Artists 14th Annual Sunny Morning, Okanagan Valley
The Lone Pine
1946 Sept. 21 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 15th Annual Early Morning Light, Castlegar, B.C.
1947 FCA   Third Traveling Exhibition Summer Night
1948 Sept. 18 - Oct. 10 VAG   B.C. Artists 17th Annual Autumn

References

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

Clippings

"Artists represented in the group comprise the following ... Carrie Lowle ... "
      From "Maritime Art Association"
      Vancouver Art Gallery Bulletin, November (?) 1939

" ... Among those contibuting paintings and drawings are: ... Carrie Lowle ... "
      from "Noted Artists Offer Paintings For Red Cross"
      Vancouver Province (presumed), November 1942


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