BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
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) | ||
1924 July | Sketch Club Midsummer Exhibition | Silver Lining |
1924 September | Sketch Club September Exhibition | End of a City Street |
1924 December | Sketch Club Semi-Annual Exhibition | Queen's Beach, Jervis Inlet |
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 |
"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
""Silver Lining," by Mr. D. McEvoy, is a woodland idyl. The trout are about to jump
in the stream, and there seems to be a delicious odor of leaves in the rain."
From "The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club"
by Bertha Lewis
British Columbia Monthly, July 1924
"In the September exhibition of work Mr. D. McEvoy shows "End of
a City Street" in oil. A dusty path leads through pale-foliaged trees to a cool secluded
spot. Not what the picture says definitely but what it suggests in its charm."
From "September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by
Alice M. Winlow
British Columbia Monthly, September 1924
"In the larger realm of landscape subjects are: ... "Queen's Beach, Jervis Inlet," full of
atmosphere by Mr. D. McEvoy; ... "
From "Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
British Columbia Monthly, January 1925
" ... 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