| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
He began working as an architect in New Westminster in 1887. In 1889 he became one of the earliest artists to exhibit in Vancouver, also showing a number of paintings in the First Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Art Association in 1890.
He married, and moved with his wife to Victoria in 1892. Maclure taught painting and sold his work in Victoria while building up his architectural practice, for which he is most famous in B.C. He exhibited work with the Island Arts and Crafts Society from 1914 to 1916.
He exhibited a number of his architectural illustrations with the Royal Canadian Academy in 1906.
He exhibited with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in 1909 and 1910.
He worked with Rattenbury, and James Blomfield. Maclure was also briefly in partnership with Jacobus Semeyn. After World War I, Ross Lort, who was a long-time apprentice and draftsman for Maclure, was promoted to full partner and headed the Vancouver office.
Maclure died in Victoria in 1929 at the age of 69.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1889 June | V.A.A. Loan Exhibition | (watercolour sketches) |
| 1890 October 6 - 11 | V.A.A. 1st Annual Exhibition | Moonlight on Fraser River |
| View on Fraser, Near Langley | ||
| View Near Beacon Hill | ||
| Night, Fraser Fraser (sic) River | ||
| Golden Ears, Fraser River | ||
| Sunrise, Cheam Peaks |
CONTEMPORARIES OF EMILY CARR IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to SFU74)
OUR CHANGING LANDSCAPE (2008) (refer to BAG08)
ARTISTS, ARCHITECTS & ARTISTS - Canadian Art 1890 - 1918 (refer to NGC13)
ISLAND ARTS & CRAFTS CLUB 5th ANNUAL EXHIBITION (refer to IACS14)
THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)
EARLY PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS IN CANADA (refer to H70)
Includes short reference to Maclure (spelled McLure).
ISLAND ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY - List of Exhibitors
FROM DESOLATION TO SPLENDOUR (refer to FDTS77)
AN EXHIBITION OF OUR COLLECTION OF EARLY WESTERN CANADIAN WATERCOLORS (refer to UL78)
ROYAL CANADIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS - EXHIBITIONS & MEMBERS 1880 - 1979 (refer to RCA81)
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA (refer to CE00)
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (refer to EBC00)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
6 references to Maclure.
BUILDING THE WEST - Early Architects of British Columbia
2003; Edited by Donald Luxton, numerous contributing authors and researchers
Talonbooks, ISBN 0-88922-474-9
560 pages, extensively illustrated in black and white, some colour
Biographies of over 400 architects and firms; extensive bibliography
Personal biography of Maclure by Janet Bingham
Professional biography by Jim Wolf, pages 148 - 155
ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to AIC)
" ... The principal artists belonging to those associations are ...
S. Maclure, Victoria, landscape painter in water colors, a
native of British Columbia - studied in Philadelphia ..."
From "ARTS & SCIENCES", History of British Columbia
Published 1894 by William Briggs, Toronto, Ontario.
"The outcome of various meetings since last May
was a united one held last week, when the following list of members of the new
undertaking passed muster and various other inaugural business was done. It is intended
to limit the membership of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts - that
is the appellation chosen - to 36 members. The names are Messrs. ... S. Maclure, ... "
From "Society of Fine Arts"
Victoria Times, November 20 1908
Article, Studio magazine, London England, 1909 Issue XLV p. 122-4
"Victoria supplied ... Samuel Maclure ... "
From "A Short Art History of British Columbia" by
Charles H. Scott
Behind The Palette, June 1947