BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Mrs. A.M. (Irene) Stephen
(nee Wealtha Irene Spores, m Alexander Maitland Stephen

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Vancouver Sketch Club

Mrs. A.M. Stephen exhibited artwork in Vancouver in 1923 and 1924 with the Vancouver Sketch Club.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1923 June Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition Butterfly
The Opal
The Rose
1924 Feb. 2 Sketch Club    Monthly Exhibition Basketball
1924 July Sketch Club    Midsummer Exhibition Youth
1924 December Sketch Club    Semi-Annual Exhibition Sister Marguerite

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"Mrs. Irene Stephen's "Butterfly" modelling in low relief, has a suggestion of gauziness in the wings that defies the density of the material used. "The Rose" and "The Opal" in high relief by the same exhibitor, are delicate and poetical. ... "The Opal" was used to illustrate a line in a poem in "The Rosary of Pan" by A.M. Stephen. "Po'sed for an instant, then she stayed her flight o'er the abysmal deep." To achieve such an impression of lightness and delicacy in clay shows artistic temperament."
      From "Semi-Annual Exhibit by the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Alice M. Winlow
      British Columbia Monthly, June 1923

"Mrs. A.M. Stephen, in the only example of modelling from life in the exhibition, a girl playing basket ball, suggested by the abandonment and vivid life of the figure, an increasingly happy faculty in this class of work."
      From "Sketch Club Exhibit Held"
      Vancouver Daily World, February 4 1924

"Mrs. Irene Stephen's modelling in plasticine was listed "Basketball." The figure shows delightful freedom and abandon. Vigor of movement and the joyousness of play are the predominating ideas."
      From "Impressions of the Sketch Club" by Alice M. Winlow
      British Columbia Monthly, March 1924

"Mrs. I Stephen has quite excelled her usually good work in "Youth," a composition in low relief. The salient characteristics of this excellently modelled poem are abandon and motion in the poise of the dancing figure, and the delicate rippling lines of the drapery giving the impression of transparency and motion."
      From "The Midsummer Exhibit of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, July 1924

"In the larger realm of landscape subjects are: ... "Sister Marguerite," by Mrs. A.M. Stephen - a bust in plasticine, remarkable for the spiritual expression of the face, and the artistic handling of the robes of the order."
      From "Semi-Annual Exhibition of the Vancouver Sketch Club" by Bertha Lewis
      British Columbia Monthly, January 1925


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