BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Salt Spring Island Art Group

? - 1948 - ?


The Salt Spring Island Art Group was a group of artists living on Salt Spring Island, in B.C.'s Gulf Islands. Artists who exhibited with the group included:

Bittancourt, Norah Elizabeth
Bryant, M.E.E.
Charlesworth, E.R.M.
Corbet, Edgar Ferrar
Croft, J.I.
Larmour, Elsie Stewart
Robinson, M.
Ross, P.
Sharp, George Lister Thornton
Sherman, K.
Walker, H.
Wychoff, J.

Artist Plato von Ustinov was noted as being an Instructor for the group.

According to a letter from Nora Bittancourt dated Oct. 25 1948, the exhbition listed below was the fourth exhibition held by the group, "two having been held locally in the summers of 1947 and 1948, and one in Victoria under the auspices of the Federation of Canadian Artists at the Little Centre."

Exhibitions

DATE TITLE
1948 Nov. 2 - 14 VAG  Group Exhibition

Clippings

"There is little to add by way of publicity to what was contained in "Island Events" which I left with you. ... "
      From "Letter re Saltspring Island Art Group exhibition"
      Personal correspondence, October 25 1948

Editor's note: Information provided courtesy Vancouver Art Gallery Library.

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