BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Ida May Maw
(nee Harrower, m Philip Johnson Maw)

c1872 - April 5 1955

B.C. Society of Fine Arts


Ida May Harrower married Philip Johnson Maw in Vancouver on August 28 1912. She had work in the 1912 Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts later that year.

She exhibited her work with the Vancouver Sketch Club in 1924 and 1925.

Maw died in Vancouver in 1955 at the age of 83, according to B.C. Vital Statistics on-line (August 2014).


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1912 Nov. 25 - 30 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition Sleeping Beauty, Tasmania
Barn Bluff
1924 September Sketch Club    September Exhibition Sunset on Texada Island
1924 December Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition (fruit study)
1925 Nov. 28 - Dec. 5 Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition (views of Tasmania)

References

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

Clippings

""Sunset on Texada Island" is the work of Mrs. Maw. It is a rejoicing canvas of purple, green, brown, and gold."
      From "September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Alice M. Winlow
      British Columbia Monthly, September 1924

"In the realm of still life there is a beautiful fruit study by Mrs. Maw."
      From "Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, January 1925

"A bright little scene, "Carvell Mission, California," by Mrs. H.J. Wattie, was much admired, as also were views of Tasmania by Mrs. F.J. Maw."
      From "Private View Precedes Sketch Club Exhibition"
      Vancouver Province, November 30 1925


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