BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mrs. M.M. Pollo(c)k
(nee Marion Young McGeorge, m Gerald L.H. Pollok

c1894 -

B.C. Society of Fine Arts
Vancouver Sketch Club


Mrs. M.M. Pollok showed artwork under that name in the 1912 Annual Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts.

A BC Vital Statistics marriage certificate notes that Marion McGeorge, age 21, spinster, rank or profession "Lady" married Gerald Pollok in Vancouver on September 20 1915, he was a 22-year old soldier. McGeorge was born in Dumfries, Scotland.

She showed work with the Vancouver Sketch Club from 1917 to 1920.

The 1917 City Directory lists a Mrs. M. Pollock living at 3916 Inverness, as well as Gerald Lindsay Hew Pollock, clerk, on active service. There was no Directory listing that year for the name Pollok. His CEF records lists her as his wife, but there is no second initial "M" noted. The 1918 Directory lists Gerald as Pollok, correctly with no "c".

A hand-written note on the marriage certificate notes that the marriage was dissolved in Vancouver on June 2 1949.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1912 Nov. 25 - 30 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition The Bluff, Comox
An Interior
A Portrait, Mrs. Hutchison
Spring Time, Cedar Cottage
1917 May 5 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (titles not known)
1917 December 1 Sketch Club    Exhibition (titles not known)
1918 Feb. 2 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (titles not known)
1919 Sept. 6 - ? Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition Study of Yellow Field Flowers
A Lady in Blue
1920 Feb. 7 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition (old English cottage)
(orchard scene)
1924 October Sketch Club    October Exhibition June
1924 December Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition (interior)

References

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

Clippings

"Among the exhibitors were ... Mrs. M.M. Pollok ..."
      From "Social Notes"
      Vancouver Daily World, May 7 1917

"At their new quarters in the Victoria block, the Vancouver Sketch Club had an interesting exhibition on Saturday afternoon. Among the exhibitors were ... Mrs. M.M. Pollok ... "
      From "Many Visitors At Sketch Club"
      Vancouver Daily World, December 3 1917

"Sketches were sent in by the following: ... Mrs. Pollok ... "
      From "Sketch Club Display"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 4 1918

" ... "Study of Yellow Field Flowers," and "A Lady in Blue" Mrs. M.M. Pollock ... "
      From "Sketch Club Opens Winter Season's Work"
      Vancouver Daily Province, September 8 1919

" ... Mrs. Pollock has a very interesting sketch of an old English cottage, and a bright orchard scene; ... "
      From "Sketch Club Has Resumed Exhibitions"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 9 1920

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


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