BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Ellen Margaret Moore
(m Marston George Fennell)

August 6 1909 - October 15 1987

Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts
P.A.S.O.V.A.S.


Ellen M. Moore was born in Vancouver. In 1925 she was a founding student at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Art. She later became a member of P.A.S.O.V.A.S., the Pioneer Art Students of Vancouver Art School, an artist's group formed in 1930 from the students who entered the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in its first year and a half of classes in 1925 and 1926. Moore graduated from the school in first year and studied in second year 1926-1927, but did not pass. She did not receive a diploma from the art school.

In 1925-26 Moore was living at 268 East 2nd Avenue in Vancouver. Her father James was listed in the City Directory at that address, employed as a "chkr" for the Great Northern Railway.

She won the cover design contest for the June 1926 issue of The Paint Box, the art school's annual, also providing a cartoon titled "The Rogue's Gallery", and a little poem titled "Epitaphs, or The Good Die Young":

      Here, greatly mourned,
      Lies Dorothy Clime,
      A little Art Stude,
      Who was always on time.

      Here lie the bones,
      Of dear little Fred,
      Who never was late,
      We're sorry he's dead.

      Up with the angels,
      Flies Margaret, dear,
      Who paid for her paper,
      While she was here.


She provided a pen and ink drawing to School Days magazine that was published in June 1930, the last issue of the magazine.

Moore was 25 when she married Marston George Fennell in Vancouver on August 25, 1934. Her occupation was listed as school teacher, Fennell was a 28-year old rancher living in Chu Chuai, B.C. (noted as being in the Yale District).

Moore (Fennell) was living in Barriere when she died in 1987 at the age of 78. Her daughter Frances S. Wagstaff witnessed the death certificate.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK

References

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

Clippings

"Signalizing the close of a most successful year, scholarships and prizes were awarded this afternoon at closing exercises of the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts. Winners of scholarships for general proficiency were: ... R.J. Cromie prize, $10, for general proficiency, Miss Ellen Moore. ... "
      From "Art School to Stage Exhibit"
      Vancouver Province, June 14 1926

" ... and Miss Ellen Moore, who won the first bronze medal of the Press Club's Greenwich Village Frolic last spring, will oversee the decorations."
      "'Bal Masque' Planned By Art Students' Group"
      Vancouver Sun, September 25 1926 page 13

"The committee in charge of arrangements included Miss Margaret Williams, Miss Beatrice Lennie, Miss Frances Gatewood, Miss Phyllis Kirkpatrick, Miss Beatrice Bell-Irving, Miss Ellen Moore, and Mr. Vito Cianci."
      From "Ogopogo Yawns On Gay Crowd At Bal Masque"
      unknown newspaper, October 20 1927


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