BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
Although the artist's first name is spelled variously Alymer and Aylmer, the author has seen an original watercolour of Vancouver by the artist that is clearly signed Alymer. B.C. Vital Statistics uses Alymer. Thus, listings as Aylmer are incorrect.
Pratt married Vivian Clementine Fraser in Vancouver on November 24, 1926.
He exhibited work in the May 1929 Spring Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts.
He exhibited at the Vancouver Exhibition in 1930, 1931, and 1932, representing the Vancouver Sketch Club.
He exhibited his work in a number of B.C. Artists annual exhibitions, including 1932, 1933, 1944, and 1949, and also in the 1944 British Columbia At Work exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He also showed work in the B.C. Artists Christmas exhibition at the Gallery in 1933.
Pratt died in Williams Lake in 1970 at the age of 73.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
1927 April 2 | Sketch Club Monthly Exhibition | (titles not known) |
1929 May 18 - June 8 | BCSFA 21st Annual Exhibition | Woodland Glade |
1930 Aug. 6 - 16 | VanExh Oil Paintings & Water-colours | A Bit of Coal Harbour |
Still Life | ||
Quiet Grazing | ||
1932 May - July | VAG All Canadian Exhibition | Twilight Tapestry |
1932 Aug. 29 - Sept. 5 | VanExh Vancouver Sketch Club Exhibit | Twilight Tapestry |
North West Beacon, Burrard Bridge | ||
A Summer Day | ||
1932 Oct. 5 - 30 | VAG B.C. Artists 1st Annual | Cosmos |
Evening at Home | ||
1933 Sept. 22 - Oct. 15 | VAG B.C. Artists 2nd Annual | On Stave River |
Meadows, Douglas Island | ||
1933 Dec. 1 - 17 | VAG B.C. Artists Christmas Exhibition | Where the Stream Runs Through |
Quietude | ||
Meadows, Douglas Island | ||
1935 Sept. 20 - Oct. 15 | VAG B.C. Artists 4th Annual | The Bridge |
Port Tack | ||
1944 Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 | VAG B.C. Artists 13th Annual | Clergy House, St. James Church |
1944 Nov. 21 - Dec. 10 | Labour Arts Guild 1st B.C. At Work | The Bending Slab |
1949 Oct. 8 - 30 | VAG B.C. Artists 18th Annual | Making Way |
ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)
B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)
"Many other well-known artists are represented, including ... Aylmer (sic)
Pratt ... "
From "Bargains in Art" by D.S.M.
Vancouver Sun, December 1 1933