Mary Ann Rice
(Mrs. F.T. Schooley, Mrs. Mary Rice Schooley)
(m Frederick Theodore Schooley)
April 30 1868 - August 27 1963
Mrs. F.T. Schooley was born in London, England, and came to Canada at about age 3.
She later came to Vancouver, and had been in British Columbia since 1898, according
to an entry form she filled out for an exhibition at the Vancouver
Art Gallery.
She was a Director of the Art, Historical and Scientific
Association of Vancouver, and also worked as a fundraiser for the
B.C. Art League to help establish a civic art school and art
gallery in Vancouver.
She exhibited her work with the B.C. Society of Fine Arts in
September 1921, May 1924, and May 1925. She exhibited at the
Vancouver Exhibition in 1924,
1925, and 1930, representing the Vancouver Sketch Club.
She also exhibited with the Vancouver Sketch
Club in 1923, in an exhibition held at the club rooms at 342 West Pender Street.
1927 memberships
She later exhibited her work in the B.C. Artists exhibitions
at the Vancouver Art Gallery, from 1932 - 34, and 1936-37, and
had a solo exhibition there in 1935. She is also known to have had her work
in at least one summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, England.
B.C. Vital Statistics shows that her husband died in Vancouver on January 28 1945
at the age of 79, Mrs. Schooley died in 1963 at the age of 95, occupation noted as
"at home."
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
References
Greater Vancouver Social and Club Register (1927)
THE FINE ARTS IN VANCOUVER, 1886 - 1930 (refer to THOM69)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
3 references cited for Schooley.
B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)
Clippings
"The exhibitors were: ... Mrs. F.F. Schooley, (sic) still life; ... "
From "Many View Sketch Club Exhibit and Much Work Shown"
Vancouver Sun, November 7 1921
"Mrs. Schooley of its lighting (sic) is very satisfying."
From "Vancouver Sketch Club"
Vancouver Province, March 5 1923
"Mrs. F.T. Schooley, who, through social activities rising from the visit of Viscount
Leverhulme, was unable to be present, contributed a tone poem in colour, a landscape
in oils, fairly redolent of the warm skys and balmy airs of Italy."
From "Sketch Club Semi-Annual Art Exhibition"
B.C. Ladies' Mirror, December 15 1923
" ... in notable contrast to that of "Laguna Grove"
by Mrs. Schooley in which a tired and overworked looking road
disappears into a comfortable mass of trees to rest. The color masses are in the soft tones
and line of the elder Crome. "Laguna Hills" is a companion picture in similar effects, but with
distant hills for aspiration rather than trees for rest."
From "Exhibition of B.C. Society of Fine Arts (Second Notice)"
Vancouver Province, May 9 1924
""Laguna Grove" by Mrs. Schooley has a quietness, a
solitariness that is restful. It is an andante of major melodies and chords."
From "Exhibition of the B.C. Society of Fine Art" by
Alice M. Winlow
British Columbia magazine, June 1924
"A picture with a bright, sunlit background, is Mrs. Schooley's "Landscape," in oils."
From "The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
British Columbia Monthly, July 1924
"Mrs. Schooley exhibits a still life in oil. The subject is the
homely carrot, a bunch of them beside a jardiniere. That lowly vegetable was surely never
before invested with such poetry as in this picture. The color of the carrots merges into
the terra cotta of the jar, and all melt and mingle into a background of indescribable
red-brown. The leaves are a soft green of ferny texture. An exquisite color study."
From "September Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by
Alice M. Winlow
British Columbia Monthly, September 1924
"This, it is hoped, will be for a short time only, as, owing to the activity of the
members of the B.C. Art League, notably one of our own
directors Mrs. F.T. Schooley, some public spirited citizens have been
induced to make the very handsome offer of $100,000 for the purchase of works of Art,
provided the citizens authorize the erection of an Art Gallery for the accommodation
of the same. So that there is every hope that an effort will now be made by the city to
start erecting the long-talked of "Civic Centre," which will accommodate both the Art
Gallery and Museum."
From "Curator's Report" by T.P.O. Menzies
Museum Notes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1926
"Mrs. F.T. Schooley is chairman of the Jubilee Committee group sponsoring the
exhibition, and she herself shows a group of three still life pictures."
From "400 B.C. Pictures in Jubilee Art Show"
Vancouver Sun, August 15 1936
" ... Among those contibuting paintings and drawings are: ... Mary R. Schooley ... "
from "Noted Artists Offer Paintings For Red Cross"
Vancouver Province (presumed), November 1942
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