| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
| NOTE: many additional art businesses, galleries, material suppliers and artist studios are listed in the A to Z index files, cross-referenced from the 1887 - 1934 Directories listings. |
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34 Group Aberthau Potters Club (ref Rona Hatherall) The Academy of Useful Arts Advisory Board Of Fine Arts Alberni Valley Art Group (ref George Clutesi) Alberta College of Art (ACA) Alberta Society of Artists Alexander Harrison Galleries About the gallery Alexandra Neighbourhood House VAG exh May 1941 "children's drawings" Allied Arts War Service Council (ref BC At Work) Amputation Club of British Columbia The Gold Stripe - Vol. 1 Christmas 1918 The Gold Stripe - Vol. 2 May 1919 A.O.T.S. Polytechnic School (ref Paul Rand) (As One That Serves); 138 E. Cordova St. Arbutus Crafts Association (Victoria, ref IDTC68) Architectural Institute of British Columbia: About the Institute 1928 list of members Art Association of Montreal About the association Spring Exhibitions 1880 - 1970 Art Directors Guild of Vancouver (ref Paul Rand) Art Emporium Art Gallery of Greater Victoria About the gallery Art Gallery of the Southern Okanagan (see PAG) Art, Historical, and Scientific Association of Vancouver Art In Living group Artisans' Studio, Nanaimo (ref Dorothy Ross) Arts Club of Victoria Arts Council of Nanaimo Art Works Gallery (Vancouver) About the gallery Atelier Sketch Club (1939 - 1949?) About the club List of members 1940-48 AVA (Avenue for/des Arts)(Vancouver) Banff School of Art Beatrice Lennie School of Sculpture B.C. Art Gallery (939 Granville St., re BCAL) B.C. Artists (BCA) B.C. Artists Series (postcards 1944) B.C. Art League (BCAL) (1920 - ) About the society 1925 list of members B.C. Art League - Summerland Branch B.C. College of Arts, Ltd. (1933 - 1935) B.C. Gallery of Arts (see Gallery of BC Arts) B.C. Graphic (society?) (VAG exh. 1949-1959 at least) B.C. Handcraft Centre (ref IDTC68) B.C. Indian Arts & Crafts Society (ref George Pratt) B.C. Industrial Design Committee (Fred Amess, per CC2 p8) B.C. Interior Artists (VAGx0798 1947) B.C. Mountaineering Club (VAG photo shows 1934, 1939) B.C. Pictorialists Society B.C. Potters Guild (ref Olea Davis, Rona Hatherall) B.C. Sculptors Society B.C. Society of Artists (see B.C. Society of Fine Arts) B.C. Society of Fine Arts (BCSFA, also BCSA) About the society B.C. Teacher's Federation (ref Ira Dilworth) (ref 1963 competition, 2nd page) The B.C. Teacher (ref A British Columbian School of Art) B.C. Waterfowl Society (ref Hugh Monahan) B.C. Weaver's Guild Burnaby Art Gallery Burnaby Art Society (1959-?)(J.N. Hardman 1st Pres. 59-60) Burnaby Photographic Society (Jack Surridge fndg. mbr.) Burrard Field Naturalists Club (ref. R.S. Sherman) Bursill Gallery, New Westminster (host 1928 8th Ann. Salon for Prov. Exh) Calgary Allied Arts Council Calgary Sketch Club Camera Art Club of Vancouver Canadian Art Guild Canadian Art Teachers' Society (ref Eric Loewe) Canadian Arthritis & Rheumatism Society (CARS) CARSCRAFT cards for W.P. Weston, Maisie Robertson CARSCRAFT Bluebird Shop, Vancouver (ref IDTC68) Canadian Arts Council (Province April 26, 1946) Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (Ione MacDonald) Canadian Folk Society (Vancouver Branch)(c1950-51) Canadian Group of Painters Canadian Guild of Potters (ref Marian McCrea) Canadian Handicraft Guild (ref Dora Geneva Lent) Canadian Institute of Associated Arts Canadian National Institute for the Blind (ref IDTC68) Canadian Red Cross, Arts & Crafts Division (ref IDTC68) Canadian Society of Graphic Artists (misc VAG exh.)(Goranson member) Canadian Society of Marine Artists Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour Canadian Society of Painters - Etchers (VAGx0030) Canadian Womens Club CARFAC 2013 BC member list Cariboo Art Society (FCA)(see also FOW13) Carving Post (the) (ref David Nahanee) Central Visual Artists Association (ref CVAA98) Clay Works Society (ref Douglas Taylor) Coast Art Trust (ref AGE09) Coast Group Cobble Hill Community (FCA) College Art(s) Association (VAG exh. 1932 - 1935) Columbia Institute Committee For Cultural Endeavour (FCA Grand Forks) Community Arts Council of Vancouver (Ross Lort Founding Board Member) Comox Arts Council Comox District Art Group Comrades in Art (women's art group, ref BC Lib. Quarterly 1968) Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) Cowichan Women's Canadian Club (FCA trav.exh.) Craft Association of BC (ref Brigitte Rice) Craft Centre Studio, 575 Dunsmuir St. (per 1936 Smock Pocket Gatewood & Burnett) Creative Jewellers' Guild, Vancouver (ref IDTC68) Creston Arts Guild (FCA) Crofton Art Group Crofton House School David Hall Sign Company (emp. G.K. Thorne, R.S. Alexander) David Spencer Ltd. (ref Maud Sherman, Gertrude Lawson) (see also art stores) Deco Art Studio, Victoria (ref Kitto, Donogh, Sweeney) Decorative Art Store (ref Misses Miller, DIR 1888) Deer Lake Printmakers Society (ref Joyce Patterson 1971) Delta Sketch Club (ref Frances Prior 1968) Design For Living Group (see Art In Living group) Design Through Living Group (see Art In Living group) East Kootenay Arts & Crafts Association (FCA Cranbrook) Emily Carr College of Art & Design (see VSDAA) Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (see VSDAA) Emily Carr University of Art & Design (see VSDAA) English Bay Sketch Club Ernest MacMillan Fine Arts Club F.C. Smith Litho, Vancouver (emp T.C. Bailie) Federation of B.C. Naturalists (ref Hugh Monahan) Federation of Canadian Artists Federation of Canadian Woodcarvers (per A.S. Derman, Kaj Nielsen) Flying Seven (per Rosalie Moore) Foster King Art Studio (DIR 1945) Fraser Valley Art Group (FCA, also Richard Obergfell, Gladys Lindemere, Albert Sexton) Fraser Valley Pottery Guild (ref Charles Partington 1961) Fraternity of Sign Painters (c. 1921) Gallery of B.C. Arts (ref Edith Clark, Bernd Rohne, John Rankin) Gallery of the Golden Key (ref Izzard c1965) Galloway-Dorbils Gallery/Bookstore (942 Granville, re 1944 Salon de refuses) German Canadian Art Society (ref Eric Loewe) Girvan Studios (DIR 1945 Vancouver) Glasgow School of Arts (Scott, Melvin, J.W.G. Macdonald) Glenbow Alberta Institute (20,000+ Western Canadian Paintings etc) Greater Vancouver Health League (org 1940 child poster show at VAG) Group of Seven Group Two (ref West Van Sketch Club) Guild of Fabric Arts (ref Jennifer Holdham 1983) H. Faulkner Smith Academy of Art About the School Students successfully placed as artists (c1936) Examination results & scholarship awards (1941) Examination results & scholarship awards (1946) Hardiman's Pioneer Gallery (see art & framing stores) Hastings Exhibition Hotel Vancouver Hudson's Bay Records Society (ref Dora Geneva Lent) Island Arts & Crafts Society About the society List of exhibitors 1909 - 1941 IACS 5th Annual Exhibition (1914) Island Illustrators Society The Island Illustrators 25th Anniversary James Leyland Gallery Junior League of Vancouver Kamloops Art Gallery (KaAG) Kamloops Arts & Crafts (FCA) Kelowna Art Centre (ref Zeljko Kujundzic 1964-68 q.v.) Kelowna Art Exhibit Society Kelowna Art Gallery Kelowna District Art Group (FCA) Kerrisdale Sketch Club (ref Pat Robertson Pres. 1981) Kimberley Sketch Club (FCA)(ref Phyllis Randall) Kitanmax School of Northwest Coast Art (at Ksan, ref Glen Rabena) Kootenay School of Art (KSA) (founder Zeljko Kujundzic 1960 q.v.) Labour Arts Guild Ladies' Art Club of Nanaimo (c1895 per Harper re Rene Quentin) Ladies' Art Club of Vancouver (per 1906 reference to ME Carr in MacDonald) Langley Arts Council (ref Thomas Partington 1964, Mary Ray 1970s) Limners (Victoria) A Passion for Art 1972, 1975, 1978, 1986 Local Council of Women Mary Gordon's Studio of Art (DIR 1945) Maple Street Studio (ref. Lisi Siegel) Monday Art Study Club (P.H. Boving Hon.Sec.) Malaspina Printmakers Society (Vancouver) Mrs. Webster's Art Bazaar (217 Hastings St. 1889) Mrs. Webster's Art School National Gallery of Canada Nelson Art Club (FCA) New Westminster Exhibition (Provincial Exhibition) New Westminster Photographers Association (per Harry Bullen) North Shore Artists' Guild (ref Allyson MacBean) North Vancouver Art Club North-West Artists (Seattle annual exhibition) Northwest Coast Institute of the Arts (Victoria) North-West Institute of Sculpture (Oregon/Wash/BC) ref Lilias Farley, Marvin Levitt Pres 1958-59) North-West Printmakers (Peter Sager) N.W. Screencraft Enterprises Ltd. (ref Larry Rosso) Oak Bay Art Club (FCA)(Muriel Barnes) Okanagan Artists League (per Susan Gibson, Celestine Herry, Thomas Steiner) Okanagan Contemporary Artists (per LeRoy Jensen) Okanagan Potters Association 2019 list of members) Okanagan Pottery Studio (Peachland 1968 - 2007, per Des Loan) Osborne Pottery Studio (per studio label) Pacific Coast Photographers Association (per Harry Bullen) Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) Pacific North West Academy of Arts, Vancouver Unit Palette & Chisel Club Parakontas (Studios) Pendulum Group (included ) Penticton Art Club (1946 exh at VAG; ref Carrie Lowle) Penticton Art Gallery Penticton Potters Guild (ref Jay Cryderman, Barry Ryan, Mary Usuliak, Walter Dexter) Peter Aspell School of Art Photographer's Association of Pacific Northwest Pioneer Art Students of Vancouver Art School (PASOVAS) Point Grey Potter's Club (ref Olga Turok) Point Group (Victoria, per Molly Privett, Bill West, Robert de Castro) Port Kells Art Group (ref Richard Obergfell) Potlatch Arts Limited (Vancouver, ref Glen Rabena) Potters Guild of BC (ref Ceramics '81 & Ceramics '82, Olea Davis) Potters Six (ref Kathleen Schoenau) Powell River Camera Club (VAG exhibition Oct. 1940) Prince Rupert Art Club Provincial Arts and Industrial Institute (merged with IACS 1928 per Crease p.28) Provincial Exhibition (New Westminster) Provincial Normal School (Vancouver) About the school Provincial Normal School Sketch Club Richmond Artists Guild (ref Frances Prior 1968) Rossland Fine Arts Group (FCA) Royal Agricultural and Industrial Society of B.C. (see Provincial Exhibition) Royal British Society of Colonial Artists (ref. T. Mower Martin) Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Salt Spring Island Group Savary Island Park Association (1910-?, ref. R.S. Sherman) Savary Island Heritage Society School of Creative Art (per Printmaking in BC, Bruce Inverarity Director 1931-33) School of Handicrafts (Victoria) (ref. Miss M.C. Kemp/IACS, and 1914 IACS) Sculpture Society of BC (SSBC) (ref Louise Weir, SSBC13 etc.) Sculpture Society of Canada (SSC) (ref B. Lennie, Aage Madsen, Linda Schmidt)(exh VAG 1937-) Sir Ernest Macmillan Fine Art Club (per 1945 Grigsby file at VAG) Society of Canadian Artists Society of Miniaturists (Charles Stansfeld Jones) South Peace Art Society (ref Elizabeth Mundy) Spencer Perceval Judge School of Art Spencer's Department Store (David Spencer Ltd.)(ref M. Sherman) Studio Club "South Kensington" College of Art (Royal College of Art, London) Tauber's Puppet Players Thompson Valley Potters Guild 2019 list of members Trail Art Club/Group (FCA) (also Trail Daily Times article) (ref Mrs. Mazzocchi, Margaret Weir) University of British Columbia University of British Columbia Alma Mater Society University of British Columbia Art Club (ref Ubyssey Feb'36 Fisher/Goranson/Hughes) University of British Columbia Art & Cultural Centre Vagabonds Club (1915-c1928)(co-founded J.F. Bursill) Vancouver Art Association Vancouver Art Gallery (1922-23, ref artstores, framing label) Vancouver Art Gallery About the gallery B.C. Artists Exhibitions Vancouver Art Gallery Ladies Auxilliary Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday Morning Classes Vancouver Art Guild (ref VaAG18) Vancouver Artists League (1984-?) (ref FEAR OF OTHERS, 1988) Vancouver Arts & Crafts Association About the society Vancouver Arts & Letters Club Vancouver Businessmen's Art Club Vancouver Camera Club (VAG exhibition 1938) Vancouver Centennial Museum Vancouver City (re support of arts in schools & public, Public Art Committee) Vancouver City Archives Vancouver Community Arts Council (Fndg.Pres. 1945 Ira Dilworth) Vancouver Community College (drafting, design, industrial arts) Vancouver East Cultural Centre (VECC) Vancouver Exhibition (ref PNE) Vancouver Folk-Craft Festival (C.S. Jones 1936) Vancouver Guild of Puppetry (ref Puppets Vancouver c1971, Van. Centennial Biblio. #6646) Vancouver Institute Vancouver Junior Art Club Vancouver Little Theatre Association (ref Ross Lort) Vancouver Museum (see also Centennial Museum) Vancouver Natural History Society Vancouver Oldtimers Club Vancouver Photographic Society Vancouver Pioneers Club Vancouver Public Art Commission Vancouver Public Library Vancouver School Board Vancouver School of Art (VSA) Vancouver School of Art Graduate's Association Vancouver School of Art (VSA) Saturday Morning Classes (vagx0068) Vancouver School of Decorative & Applied Arts (VSDAA) (1925) About the School List of students & graduates 1925-1950 The Savary Pudding (1935 & 1939) Vancouver School of Decorative & Applied Arts Art Student's Club Vancouver School of Display (ref Frank Vase, instructor, 1945) Vancouver Sculptor's Association Vancouver Sketch Club About the club Vancouver Studio Club and School of Art Vancouver Technical School Vancouver Technical School Camera Club Vancouver Technical School Lino Block Club Vancouver Trades and Labour Council (affil. member of BCAL) Vancouver Vocational Institute (drafting, design, industrial arts) Vancouver Vocational Training School (81 Robson St.)(VAG exh. 779) Vanderpant Galleries (1216 Robson St., Vancouver, ref John Vanderpant) Vernon Art Group (FCA)(ref CA47) Vernon Industrial Exposition 1947 (FCA)(ref CA47) Vernon Travelling Pictures Committee (FCA trav.exh. Sec'y J. Topham-Brown) Victoria Book Arts Club (c1982, ref Hoffer: Stigma #377) Victoria Camera Club (ref VAG doc 1945) Victoria Hand Weavers Guild (ref IDTC68, Kathleen Porter) Victoria School of Art Victoria Sketch Club (continued from IACS) West Coast Surrealist Group (ref Van. Centennial Biblio. #6108) West Vancouver Community Art Club West Vancouver Fine Arts Class (1930 - ) (see WVSC) West Vancouver Sketch Club (May 1947 - current) About the club List of members 1947-77 Western Artists' Association Western Artists of Canada (founded 1977) (ref Jack Lee McLean) Western Art Circle (WAC56) (ref John Planidin, Allyson MacBean, Jack Surridge, Gladys Lindemere) Western Art Studio (ref. Kitto) Western Canada Art Circuit (VAG exh. 1945 - 1947 Western Canada Brotherhood (Fisher, Hughes, Goranson) Western Group of Painters (per Thom reference in WP Weston 1948- ) Western Tribune Junior Art League (Dir. A.M. Stephen) Women Sketch Hunters of Alberta
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