BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Dermot(t) McEvoy

c1872 - January 6 1953

Vancouver Sketch Club (President 1923)

Dermot McEvoy exhibited with the Vancouver Sketch Club beginning in 1917, and in 1923 was President of the club, according to an article in the British Columbia Ladies' Mirror.

In 1930 he exhibited his work at the Vancouver Exhibition, representing the Vancouver Sketch Club.

In 1932 he was a signatory to an agreement to boycott the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa for their exhibition and purchase policies related to Canadian artists. He was noted as being a Vancouver artist.

He exhibited his work in the 1934 B.C. Artists annual at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

He died in 1953 at the age of eighty-one.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1917 May 5 Sketch Club    Exhibition (titles not known)
1922 April 1 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (oil landscape)
(four pencil sketches)
1930 Aug. 6 - 16 VanExh   Oil Paintings & Water-colours Clouds on the Mountain
Mount Rundle
Pitt Meadows
1934 Sept. 21 - Oct. 14 VAG   B.C. Artists 3rd Annual Poplars

References

Clippings

"Among the exhibitors were ... Mr. C. (sic) McEvoy ..."
      From "Social Notes"
      Vancouver Daily World, May 7 1917

"Mr. Dermot McEvoy contributed an artistic oil landscape, and four good pencil sketches."
      From "Sketch Club Tea Enjoyable Event; Good Work Shown"
      Vancouver Daily World, April 3 1922

"Student Classes At Sketch Club"
      British Columbia Ladies' Mirror, December 15 1923

" ... the 118 artists who have signed the agreement to date ... include ... Dermott McEvoy ... "
      From "Canadian Artists Unite to Boycott National Gallery" by The Canadian Press
      Montreal Gazette, December 8 1932


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