BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Walter E. Rice

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Walter E. Rice had work in the 1911 and 1912 annual exhibitions of the B.C. Society of Fine Arts. He was apparently an American architect from Seattle, who joined the firm that then became known as Russell, Babcock & Rice. They opened a Vancouver office in 1912, but the firm didn't do well, with Babcock and Rice maintaining a Vancouver office only until 1916.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1911 November BCSFA   Fall Exhibition (watercolour landscapes)
1912 Nov. 25 - 30 BCSFA   Annual Exhibition Sketch of Cottage
Sketch of Cottage
Lynn Marsh
Landscape

References

THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)

BUILDING THE WEST - Early Architects of British Columbia
      2003; Edited by Donald Luxton, numerous contributing authors and researchers
      Talonbooks, ISBN 0-88922-474-9
      560 pages, extensively illustrated in black and white, some colour
      Biographies of over 400 architects and firms; extensive bibliography
      Includes references to Rice, and sketch of ruin by Rice illustrated page 412.

Clippings

"Mr. W.J. Rice's (sic) landscapes, like Mr. Tytler's tangled woods, show a remarkable quality of courage, and the coloring of his skies, horizons and middle distances is magnificently imaginative. Mr. Rice appears to see whole realms of "cloud-capped towers and airy palaces" in his middle distances, where another person sees merely a fold in the hills. If his pictures have a fault, however, it is that his foregrounds are left to the imagination, and such detail as he supplies is etched, rather than brought into harmony with the general style of his imaginative technique."
      From "Some Pictures by B.C. Artists" by A.N. St. John Mildmay
      News Advertiser, November 21 1911

"Among water color artists, the work of Mr. W.E. Rice was particularly pleasing."
      From "Fine Arts Society Makes Fine Exhibit"
      Vancouver Daily World, November 23 1911

"It brought to light several new artists, among others Mr. Rice, an architect from Boston, whose water-colors, by their faithfulness to nature and the delicacy of the soft greys and browns, won for them a high place in general esteem."
      From "Our Germ Of Art" by Eugene de Lopatecki
      British Columbia magazine, December 1911


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