BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Lorna Beatrice (Betty) Streatfeild
(m. Alistair Bell)(Mrs. Betty Streatfeild Bell)

August 17 1902 - March 17 1996

Atelier Sketch Club

Betty Streatfield was born in Esquimalt. She was a member of the Atelier Sketch Club, a group formed by art students taking Evening Classes at the Vancouver School of Art. The group put together their first annual exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1940.

Streatfeild married Alistair Bell at Caufeild, West Vancouver, on July 5 1941. Bell was 27, the bride was 38.

She exhibited her work in the 1942 B.C. Artists exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She was living in West Vancouver at the time.

She had duo exhibitions with her husband Alistair Bell in 1942 and 1944, also at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

She died in 1996 in West Vancouver at the age of 93.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION
1942 Feb. 3 - 15 Alistair & Betty Bell - Duo Exhibition Vancouver Art Gallery
1944 Mar. 28 - Apr. 16 Alistair & Betty Bell - Duo Exhibition Vancouver Art Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1940 April 2 - 14 Atelier Sketch Club   Group exhibition Breeze
November Landscape
Autumn
1942 Sept. 25 - Oct. 18 VAG   B.C. Artists 11th Annual Deserted House
1947 April 12 - 13 WVCAC   Exhibition of Fine Arts Arden's Barn
1953 May 5 - 31 VAG    BCSA 43rd Annual Anemones in a Blue Jar
1954 May 25 - June 13 VAG    BCSA 44th Annual Still Life with Cineraria
Arizona Spoons
1955 April 26 - May 15 VAG    BCSA 45th Annual Thompson River Cliffs
Still Life with Yellow Flower Pot
1956 Feb. 28 - March 18 VAG    BCSA 46th Annual Skulls
1957 March 5 - 24 VAG    BCSA 47th Annual Dead Sunflower
September Flowers
1958 Feb. 4 - 22 VAG    BCSA 48th Annual Sun Flowers
Sea-Wrack

References

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

BRITISH COLUMBIA WOMEN ARTISTS 1885-1985 (refer to AGGV85)

GENERATIONS - FIVE DECADES OF ART IN WEST VANCOUVER 1912 - 1962 (refer to WVMA99)

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

Clippings

"Congratulations are due to the Atelier Sketch Club for their ambitious exhibition. This self-organized group of evening school students are meeting every Friday in the Holden building and an invitation is extended to all students to join."
      "Evening School", by Fred Amess
      From Behind The Palette, Vancouver School of Art Annual 1939-40

"Atelier Sketch Club Takes A Bow"
      News Herald, April 3 1940

"Art Group, Youth Share City Gallery"
      Vancouver Province, April 4 1940

"Not every day do Vancouverites have an opportunity to see a husband and wife exhibition at the Art Gallery. Alistair Bell and his wife, Betty Streatfeild Bell, are showing a group of their drawings of the human form, which will be on view till Feb. 15. (continues)"
      From "Talented Husband and Wife Have Display at Art Gallery" by Mildred Valley Thornton
      Vancouver Sun, February 11 1942


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