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)
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

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

""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


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