BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Alexander R. Straker
(also Alexzander, Alex)

c1903 - January 23 1972

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Alexander R. Straker exhibited work in the 1949 Stanley Park in Pictures exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

According to Thoedore Pappas III, Vancouver auctioneer, Straker was a mink rancher, and a friend of the Pappas family, the owners of Pappas Furs. Straker was also a painter, mostly doing oil paintings of wildlife. The Pappas family owns an oil painting by Straker of a mink family crossing a log fallen over a stream.

Straker was living in Vancouver in 1965, according to information from the National Gallery of Canada artists index. He died in New Westminster in 1972 at the age of 69, according to B.C. Vital Statistics on-line, which also gives his first name as Alexzander.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1949 July 12 - July 31 VAG   Stanley Park in Pictures Ducks, Beaver Lake
Bridle Path

References

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death (refer to BCVS)

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